St. Louis 2025 Game #133 thread – Tuesday, August 26 vs. Pittsburgh Pirates

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    Brian Walton
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    6:45 p.m.
    RHP Andre Pallante (6-11, 5.17) vs. RHP Mitch Keller (5-12, 4.34)
    FanDuel // KMOX // WIJR

    #291269
    bicyclemike
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    Anyone excited for this series between the two worst teams in the NLC? We have a starter tonight who is five games under .500 at the moment, with an ERA over 5. Not too hard to see why our record is near the bottom of the NLC.

    #291273
    Brian Walton
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    Something to look forward to tomorrow!

    #291276
    stlcard25
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    Pallante is pitching for a chance to pitch again in the rotation in 2026, I would think. Unless the Cards want to run out a losing team again, they desperately need two guys better than Pallante and Mikolas in the rotation. Gray, McGreevy and Liberatore (who I think will be better with a full off-season to build up his arm) are ok in those 2-4 slots, but we really have two guys who shouldn’t be starting big league games.

    #291287
    Cardinal in France
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    My money is on TBA.

    #291353
    ZTR
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    Hey now it could always be worse.

    #291365
    blingboy
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    Their guy’s record is even worse than Pallante’s.

    #291366
    CardsFanInChiTown
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    As of right now, and his on field performance not improving, Pallante as a long man in the bullpen is hopefully in the Cards (pun dintended) for 2026.

    #291367
    stlcard25
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    Their guy’s record is even worse than Pallante’s.

    If Pallante was on the Pirates, who knows how bad his record might be? Meanwhile, Keller would be just behind Gray and Libby for the best best ERA in the Cardinal rotation.

    #291372
    jj-cf-stl
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    fastball .890 ops allowed
    sinker .796
    offspeed knuckle-curve is a ball more often than a strike.
    Andre is not showing he has a starters pitches.

    #291373
    bicyclemike
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    Nice comeback win last night. Yeah, Pallante is a middle reliever who starts for us because we need someone to fill a rotation spot, and we were not gutsy enough to bring up McGreevy earlier. Now that Fedde has been jettisoned, McG took that spot and Pallante is still in the rotation.

    Can Bloom upgrade the rotation next year? Or will a couple of the Memphis kids take strides and provide quality starts? We will see.

    #291385
    Steve60
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    Does Pallante ever make out of the first couple of innings without giving up multiple runs! Getting ridiculous!

    #291386
    jj-cf-stl
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    “Another fastball, another hit” – Horton

    #291387
    1toughdominican
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    I can’t remember seeing 4 runs on 5 hits in such a short timespan.

    #291388
    jj-cf-stl
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    Try striking someone out.

    #291389
    osuagec
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    Good grief! Pallante getting rocked. Given up 5 first inning runs so far.

    #291390
    1toughdominican
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    Well, maybe I do, but it was the Cardinals doing the hitting and scoring against the Braves in game 5 of the ’19 NLDS.

    #291391
    bicyclemike
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    It’s never good when your starter can’t control the game. Simply have to get better rotation production next year.

    #291392
    stlcard25
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    Pallante pitches his team right out of the game in the first. Not good.

    #291393
    858booyah
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    Pallante will be our 2026 version of Mikolas. Lol

    #291394
    bicyclemike
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    This game is an example of conflicting terms: “pretty ugly”.

    #291395
    forsch31
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    Pallante back out in the fifth to save the bullpen. Gorman put the Cardinals on the board in the bottom of the fourth with a long home run. 8-2 Pirates.

    #291396
    1toughdominican
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    Haha…That young girl’s dance of elation after getting that game ball tossed to her may be the Cardinal highlight of the season! Always nice to see the kids enjoying themselves at the game. Makes me wish I wasn’t so old and grouchy…

    #291397
    blingboy
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    We struck out 11 times through 7 innings.

    #291401
    1toughdominican
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    Well, that’s 1 K less than Larry’s 12 K’s in 656 PA’s during the 1950 season. He also hit .322 while collecting 124 RBI’s and 28 taters that year. But everyone knows that baseball players are much better these days.

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