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5:40 p.m.
LHP Matthew Liberatore (1-4, 6.93) vs. RHP Zack Littell (2-2, 3.58)
BSM // KMOX
(and Bally Sports South/Southwest)Long flight to Kansas City after this one. Would be nice to make it a happy flight. Hopefully Liberatore will feel like he’s got something to prove and pitch a good game for us.
I guess it’s either going to rain in KC on Sunday or they’re worried about that marathon flight time from KC to StL so they decided they needed a special travel day…No game. Maybe they should just drive?
CF L. Nootbaar L
1B P. Goldschmidt R
2B Nolan Gorman L
DH N. Arenado R
LF T. O’Neill R
RF A. Burleson L
C A. Knizner R
3B T. Motter R
SS Tommy Edman SBig night for Libby-hope he does well.Read today our win last night at Tropicana field was our first there since 2014-9 years. A lot of rbi’s last night-some creative base running finally and a win! Wondering why Burlys batting 6 now? No more than 2 rightys in a row?
I’ll be tuning in to this one to see Manny Motter take his rips and work the glove over at 3B. He’s been here now for what seems like a long time. I’m aware that he disappeared from view for a minute or two, but obviously the Cardinal bosses realized they made a grevious mistake and concluded they needed his tremendous talent back with the club. How long does he have to remain a Cardinal before he qualifies for one of those snazzy red sport coats? At any rate, it’s nice to see that the Cardinal manager’s smart enough to get him in there and keep him sharp. You sure don’t want to let Manny sit on the bench and waste away. He’s only a little shy of 34 and with all that talent still sitting there waiting to bust out we need to get plenty of looks!
All jokes aside, how weird of a season has it been when Manny Motter’s situated at 3B in August and the Redbirds have an off day this Sunday?
” manager Oli Marmol on his team still having something to play for: “Like, (giving up) is not how they think. They’re not thinking of not making the playoffs. The conversation in the dugout yesterday was, ‘Let’s get to .500 with 2 1/2 weeks to go and see what happens.’” (John Denton tweet)
Really? They are 3-5 in August so far and won one in a row. They are great at sitting around talking.
They were within 9 games of even after that 6 game W streak in mid July and then packed it in just like they did back in late May when they approached to within 6 games of .500 and the team amd media folks sounded the trumpet and proclaimed that this team had, “turned things around.” They fooled me a lot back in May and a little bit in July. Now that they’ve all but publicly proclaimed to throwing in the towel, I’ll be surprised if they aren’t at 20 games under at season’s end. Any talk about attaining .500 with 2 1/2 weeks to go is not unlike some sort of baloney claiming that water’s not wet.
Moreover, if the Cardinal manager really said that and knowing how he talks I believe he did, he should be sacked on the spot just for uttering that one solitary statement.
The Nootz has put together an across the board solid season and now has a career .251 BA to go with a .353 OBP. Not too shabby.
Strange start to this one. Its time for a real coaching challenge in this game. The baseball wizards need to get with Knuzner and Libby and figure out how we’re gonna keep base runners from stealing any base at will.
I don’t think it takes a wizard to figure it out, Wooster. With the new rules they can step off or throw over to check on the baserunner 2 times. I think it’s a silly rule, but as long as they’re allowed 2 times, they might as well use those 2 opportunities. It’s like they forgot how to even look over anymore.
I’ve got the Rays broadcast- they’re talking about Libbys high leg kick. Is that 2 times per base?. They’re saying Zorena was daring Libby to check him but Libby just ignored him. Knizer afraid to throw. You know Nooty stole 3rd last night. Baseball is alot about what the other teams doing. Motter looking solid at third.
I missed the beginning but it looks like we’ve had runners in scoring position a couple times and failed to do anything.
Yeah Bling but Knizner just changed that! Goldy got a nice standup double and got stranded-Nooty too but Libbys looling good so far.
Yeah Bling but Knizner just changed that!
I like it when the min wage guy does what the contracts can’t.
There is contract guy NA scoring from 1st on single by Burly. When bling starts raging on them, they man up.
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