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Pham left with groin tightness, I think was the report. He appeared to be in low-gear going after a couple of fly balls that dropped in safely.
Hicks with a scoreless 9th to give the Cards a fighting chance. Top of the order up (Bader, Carp, Mart) to face Morrow.
Cards with 2 on and one out. Ozuna to the plate. It’d be nice to tally the first runs against Morrow this year.
Cards now tie it on Ozuna double! Yadi pops out to set the stage for Fowler. Ozuna on 2nd with 2 outs.
Bad development in the 10th, Norris removed due to injury after getting a strikeout. Not sure what it is. Leone last night…Pham, Yadi and now Norris today.
Lyons coming in with 2 outs and a runner on 2nd.
Lyons comes in, gives up a wild pitch to advance Heyward to third, then gives up a line shot that must’ve had an exit velocity of 250 mph…but it was right at Carp for the 3rd out. Way to deliver Tyler!
Cards better win now because there’s no bench left.
What did it look like? Arm?
It wasn’t very clear. Norris made the strike 3 pitch (which was his last pitch) that got away and didn’t show any reaction as he was tracking Pena get the ball while Heyward advanced. Then Maddox and Matheny came out, followed by the trainer, who didn’t really look at anything, other than to talk to Norris. Norris appeared to flex his fingers a little while they were huddled, then promptly left the game.
What a thriller! We are going to be putting our depth to the test the next couple weeks. My guess is O’Neill up to replace Pham, Gant up to replace Leone now, and Brebbia up to replace Norris? This is assuming they both need a DL stint. Mayers replaces Gant after Monday’s game.
Bullpen will have:
Hicks
Holland
Gregerson
Bowman
Lyons
Sherriff
Tuivailala
Brebbia (8)I’d say Bowman will be on quite the short leash at this point in terms of his ML stay.
Actually, they’ll probably go with another hitter during the week between Gant and Wainwright since there will already be 8 pitchers in the bullpen.
For the record, St. Louis wins its second straight over the Cubs and fourth game in a row, with a 8-6 victory in 10 innings. The Cards improve to 19-12 on the season.
These are the kind of games that can make the difference between a playoff team and one sitting at home for October. Nice to get the victory. Hope they can hit Lester tomorrow night.
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If we sweep these guys, watch out! They could be a much more cohesive unit than what most of us think. If our Birds take 2-3, I think 2018 is going to be a fun ride.Just gonna sit this one right here.
Did anyone really think Bud NOrris was going to go through this season unscathed? I mean this was his 16th appearance in 31 games. Something was bound to happen and honestly I figured after last nights performance he’d be off limits today. Guess Matheny thought otherwise.
We won the series but this is a big loss for this club. I’d almost rather see Hicks or Gregorsen over the 14 million dollar man at this point. This is not good situation to be in.
Fun facts: Bud Norris has not appeared in games on three straight days all season. He’s only appeared in games on BACK-TO-BACK days 4 times all year. He’s only thrown more than one inning 3 times all year and always had the day off following the multi-inning appearances.
Why is it that every single time a reliever gets injured, it’s the manager’s fault? I don’t get it. It’s funny booyah, I don’t recall you saying you figured Norris would be unavailable before the game. I would have questioned that for sure. They had the day off on 5/3, then he pitched 1 inning Friday (poorly I might add), and he should be off-limits?
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