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7:15 p.m.
LHP Matthew Liberatore (6-6, 3.70) vs. RHP Grant Holmes (4-8, 3.44)
FanDuel // KMOV // KMOX // WIJRGlad it’s not one of those stupid Apple TV games. Me and Whitey Herdog will be on the couch for his one. FIrst we will start off with the Rockies and Reds from Riverfront Stadium. Then late tonight we will tune in to the Doyers and Giants from Candlestick Park.
And din-din today is a trip to Lakeview, the Amish restaurant out on the lake. Catfish Fiddlers, mashed potatoes/gravy, noodles, dressing, sweet iced tea, cherry pie, and vanilla soft serve ice cream. Yes indeed, it’s definitely a CCFF!
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And by the way, what’s up with these stupid little earrings that Winn has been wearing? This is the first time I’ve seen him wear them. Did he always wear them?
Looks to me like he’s more interested in being cute and pretty than he is a hard nosed St. Louis Cardinal baseball player. Before long he will have more gold chains hanging around his kneck than Elly de la Cruz.
The Cardinals enter the final series before the ASB at 50-44.
Their record the day before the ASB in 2022? Well, that would also be 50-44.
I know it's been frustrating at times. But this group has outperformed all projections and put together an exciting first half.
— Katie Woo (@katiejwoo) July 11, 2025
1. Donovan 2B
2. Winn SS
3. Burleson RF
4. Contreras 1B
5. Nootbaar LF
6. Arenado 3B
7. Gorman DH
8. Pages C
9. Scott CFLiberatore P
It’s been well over 30 years ago, but whenever the Cardinals play the Braves during really hot summer weather, I always recall listening to Jack Buck and Mike Shannon performing the play by play call of a highly unusual batting practice event during the pregame KMOX radio broadcast of July 20, 1993. A serious fire broke out near the press box area of Atlanta Fulton Co. Stadium which delayed the start of that Cardinals/Braves game and required several fire trucks to take to the field to extiguish the flames. Buck, Shannon and the rest of the media assigned to that game were later forced to cover the action from the grandstand seats. I clearly recall listening in as I was grilling some pork steaks in the back yard of our old house and, while doing so, I actually moved the grill a little further away from the rear area of the garage…Haha! “Hotlanta” was the genuine watchword that evening.
The first game I ever attended in Busch II was in 1978 against the Braves. The bullpens were on the field at the time and we were sitting behind the Brave bullpen down the 3B line. Before the game I got an autograph from Brave catcher Biff Pocoroba. The Cards won the game in front of a sparce crowd but I was just thrilled to be there since I was only 10 years old.
“Biff Pocoroba”…Now there’s a baseball name that’s a blast from the past that I’d somehow forgotten until just now! How in the heck do you forget a name like that? And I clearly recall when both SP’ers and relief pitchers alike would warm up down the 1B and 3B lines in foul territory at Busch Memorial Stadium. If you had a field box seat in those areas, you were situated close enough to carry on a casual conversation.
I guess they are going to keep running that Gorman fella out there every day until he is either struck by lightening or collapses from heat stroke. I thought this “reset” period was to find some better players for next year, but it seems Gorman has a godfather somewhere up there no matter how long he dances around the Mendoza line. Or perhaps management is using his whiffs as a fan to agitate the air for the rest of the team.
I’d guess they’re going to keep feeding him PA’s while he’s here, CIF. One thing that I’m certain of is that he’s been a genuine disappointment.
Talking about the bullpens down the lines in foul territory – on a trip to St Louis in 1972 with a buddy as teenagers where his dad set us up with transportation from Denver and a room at what was called Stouffers Riverfront Inn back then – we had box seats down the left field line for a game against the Phillies. Steve Carlton was warming up and we were able to walk right down to where you were literally what, 6 feet away maybe?? He was warming up and throwing what looked to be hittable pitches. I was thinking, “I have faced fastballs almost as hard as those.” Then he finished up with four or five pitches where he let go, and I mean you could not see the ball. It was really impressive. He went on to shut us out that night, or maybe we got one run. But we lost.
This Braves team is a little better than their record indicates. They won’t be an easy opponent.
Winn has had those earrings of late. But he still goes all out every time. I don’t think choice of attire and being aggressive are correlated.
Remember if we have no Arenado then we have Gorman playing regardless. Not blaming Nolan for that at all.
He’s just doing what he does best. Gets hot for a month and then cools off for a couple.
Haha!…That’s a real good story about “Lefty” warming up, Bikemike. I’ve had similar experiences watching Big League pitchers taking their tosses before really cutting it loose on the last four or five. When you’re up close and get a good look at what they’re capable of placing on a pitch, you almost feel a sense of relief that you don’t have to step into a Big League batter’s box…Haha! It’s pretty impressive. And yeah, that was great when you were able to get so close to those guys while they were heating up. I think the problem was that those mounds were obvioulsy a serious obstacle for defensive players attempting to field a ball that was placed into play during a game.
Pages with the 2 out 2 RBI base hit places the Redbirds right back into this game. On a side note, this Braves pitcher would put Rapunzel to shame…
O’Brien escapes entirely unscathed from the 2nd and 3rd with no outs jam. I can’t recall the last time I saw that from a Redbird pitcher.
Near flawless work from the BP tonight after the 3 inning fiasco from Liberatore. It sure would be nice to pull this out of the fire with some runs in these last 2 innings.
Bad night for a Libratore clunker with Fedde going Saturday. Might limp into the break. Braves IIRC haven’t announced a starter.
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