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7-2 Birds on the smoking red hot Carpenter single to right, plating Pham! Now Jose Martinez ralphs one out of here!! 9-2 Cards!! And this may be time for our skipper to call off the dogs!
I’d give my left….my left pinkie to see Pena drill a 3-bagger giving him that elusive cycle. Wonder who the last Cardinal to hit for the cycle was?
Where has this offense been? Good to see some life from our guys!
Unless the Memphis Mafia brings the pain then I’d say we score 5 runs the next 2 games unless some guys get it going.
I am intrigued about Munoz 2nd stint and moving forward with O’neil. For once I agree it’s time to let the young guys be the next guys up.
Sweet! O’Neil trots out to left. This kid WILL hit in this league. I’m not going to be content though until I see Schrock take up his rightful position on this team as their starting 2nd baseman.
Hernandez jacks home run #6 And the Cardinal lead has been sliced to 9-3. Brebbia the offending distributor.
I think Gabe Kapler is the type of manager who wants to prove the sabre geeks wrong. lol
A part of me wants to succeed.
Now Wong puts his teeth into one and that baby is long gone to right!!!! The crowd is hushed as Pena confidently strolls to the dish in search of that ever elusive triple, thus giving him the even more ever elusive cycle…..let’s watch shall we.
Wong homers! 10-3
did I see correctly at one point the Phillies had no lefthanded bullpen help other than Hutchinson?
Wouldn’t you just love to be the fan who caught Pena’s triple that gave him the cycle? Ah! Pena whiffs, but oh what a night he has had! Getting 3/4’s of the cycle is always no minor feat. Who knows, the way our Birds are hitting tonight, he just may get one morevshot at it.
Kapler is a major sabre geek. He once made a pitching change with two outs in the ninth with a huge lead because the spreadsheet said to.
Well if the simple numbers say so then yes.
Having Ruis face Wong was just stupid. Just Matheny dumb!
Yay Mayers gets game time. He hasn’t pitched since he threw 1 pitch on May 12. Granted that 1 pitch lost the game but he’s not the one who loaded the bases either.
Went to bed start of 3rd inning and they score 12 runs 4 of which happen immediately after I turned it off. Go figure. Hope they saved some for the next few games. Always good to get a win and have fun doing it.
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Neill gets his 1st Big league hit.A couple more and he will catch Fowler and Carpenter.LOL.Now heres hoping Baron gets some chances to get his 1st MLB Hit.I think he is 0-12 now in his very short MLB career.Speaking of homeruns, Dan and Tim interviewed the guy that hit the first homerun I ever saw at a big league game back on Saturday night, August 2, 1969. Dodgers in St. Louis.
Looked it up, and Javier’s homer was off future Hall of Famer Don Sutton no less.
FWIW, first live home run I ever saw was hit by a guy who hit a lot of them, none other than Hank Aaron.
I have not dug into the quality of pitch metric, but on the surface, it suggests that those of you who do not include Wacha in your future rotation may be underestimating him.
#STLCards Michael Wacha 2018 Pitch Quality
5.17 QOPA (Top 7% MLB)
CH 5.34 QOPA (Top 5% MLB)
FF 5.30 QOPA (Top 12% MLB)
FC 5.12 QOPA (Top 4% MLB)@MichaelWacha @DannyMacTV @TheCatOnFox @dgoold
@JoeTrezz @RobRains @lau56 @B_Walton @StullySTL pic.twitter.com/UcRGIOtkdv— MLB Quality of Pitch (@qopbaseball) May 19, 2018
For the most part, Wacha has been very good since last season. He is quietly putting together a nice career, after what seems to be a resolution of the shoulder ailment.
Plus he can get a bunt down.
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