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1:15 p.m.
RHP Miles Mikolas (3-10, 4.66) vs. LHP Rich Hill (7-13, 5.21) (RHP Yu Darvish was the scheduled starter but was placed on the IL on Monday)
BSM // KMOX // WIJR
(and Bally Sports South/Southwest)O’Neill’s sore knee has him sidelined.
Series win on the line!#STLCards pic.twitter.com/N0vFzySrQS
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) August 30, 2023
If they can’t get anything for O’Neill this winter he needs to be dropped over the side. Its better to know you don’t have something and plan accordingly, than to think you’ve got something and then you don’t.
I kept saying that the new pitchers we bring in need to be better than Mik and Matz. I think I need to raise that bar.
Read some stuff showing Mikolas stats steadily dropping. Esp his velocity. Maybe excuses but some say hes tiring out.
Hate to see the pen give up the go ahead run late like that. Not that its anything new this year, but King is new, so I hate to see it.
Winn has to put it in play and get the tying run over to third with less than two outs. Its late, that play has to happen. If he doesn’t have the bat skill then he has to bunt. Failure is not an acceptable outcome when you need that run. He can’t risk a K in that sutuation.
I blame Oli for Goldy not driving in those runs. He can’t drive in runs from the 2spot! Everybody knows this!
Have a day Walker
For the second game in succession Edman has once again illustrated the portion of his game that can’t be quantified by anything related to advanced mathematics or fancy sabre-speak. It’s a simple case of him being a winner and anyone who has followed Big League baseball for more than a minute or two shouldn’t have too much trouble being able to spot it.
The Padres are 6-21 in 1 run games this season.
0-11 in extra inning games.
People are dumbfounded by how they could be so bad. Well….here ya go!
I looked it up and Melvin’s in the second year of a three year contract, but I’d still say he has to be feeling some heat in SD. I wasn’t aware of those two sets of numbers, but they’re both astounding. Especially the lack of a solitary win in eleven extra inning games. Them’s snakebit type numbers.
With the ghost runner. It pays to be good at fundamental small ball. Advancing a runner and getting him in. As opposed to hoping for a homer. Some teams are good at it and some aren’t.
What is noteworthy about San Diego’s poor record in those situations is that they have one of the best closers in the game. That suggests the offense may be the culprit despite all the stars in the lineup.
If there is one thing I am seeing across baseball this season, it is that a collection of good players does not necessarily make a good team.
SP game scores this series:
50 Wainwright
41 Thompson
46 MikolasOverall ERA this series was 3.86, with a 11/11 BB/K.
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Goldy 4 for 10, 3 singles, 1 HR, 1 rbi, 3/3 BB/KContreras 3 for 11, 1 dbl, 2 HR, 3 rbi, 1/1 BB/K
Edman 2 for 10, 1 single, 1 HR, both walk off, 3 rbi, 1/1 BB/K
Walker 7 for 10, 5 singles, 1 dbl, 1 HR, 4 rbi, 1/1 BB/K
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Overall the lineup had an 8/29 BB/K and a .704 ops
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Gorman 1 for 7, 5 k’s
Arenado 1 for 12, 1 K
O’Neill 0 for 7, 1 BB, 3 K
Knizner 0 for 8, 6 K
Winn 2 for 12, 4 K
Palacios 2 for 7, 1 KAlluding to the small ball tactic, I’ve said more times than I can count that when playing at home I’d attempt a sac-bunt every solitary time to move that runner up to 3B with one out. No ifs ands or buts about it. I don’t care who’s standing in. If the sac is successful, chances are that game is going to be placed in the W column. Moreover, with the new extra innings rule, I think it would be a good idea for every team to make certain that they had at least one player on the roster who was very proficient at laying down a bunt to use him as a PH’er in extras. Some of you may recall that if Kyle Lohse doesn’t get a successful sac-bunt down in game 6 of the 2011 WS, that game never goes beyond the 10th inning and the Redbirds lose that WS.
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