Opening Day Game Thread – vs. Rays, Thursday, 3/26

[1982 willie]

Thats a winner.

[Cardinal in France]

Phew! That was a real sphincter clincher!

[1982 willie]

Lots of questions with our pitching but a win is a win.

[jj-cf-stl]

Baseball just invites outlandish.
What a game.

[Jnevel]

On our way to 162-0 season.

[TexasCard]

Nothing like a win on opening day. High fives all around.

[GameCard]

Fun game to watch.

[blingboy]

That’s one in a row.

[Ratsbuddy]

Watching the DBacks and Doyers from Doyer Stadium.

In his first at bat Arenado hit a little weak flyball, a popup to the 2ndbaseman.

That rang a bell.

Plus he made a really good defensive play in the bottom of the 1st.

That rang a bell too.

[gscottar]

Cards won and Cubs lost. I call that a good day.

[1toughdominican]

Two takeaways from the ’26 opener. We’re in first place and the Redbird closer gifts 3 BB’s and comes away with the save…We’re underway!

[1964cards]

Always good to start the season on a winning note!

Not sure what the season has in store for the Redbirds. However, I really liked the enthusiasm demonstrated yesterday. Hoping for the best!

“Trust in Chaim”

[bicyclemike]

Coming back after being down six in the later innings is impressive. But you won’t score 9 too often. Hope the pitching can be better, although the Rays did have some good fortune in that 6 run inning with balls not hit hard, but out of reach of defenders.

[Thegreyghost]

Some quick thoughts from yesterday

Liberatore not too bad, it looked like he was clearly running on fumes before they pulled him….7 hits and 2 walks is a little to much traffic on the bases though.

Bullpen

I would think Roycroft and Bruihl need a couple of good showings or Graceffo, Raquet or others may be up soon from Memphis. Svanson has at least a better track record so maybe a longer leash.

Stanek has good stuff but needs to get some control (3 walks in an inning will put the whole forum in the psych ward)…may just be opening day jitters

O’Brien… thought he looked pretty solid

Hitting

Only 3 strikeouts but zero walks.
Winn in the 4 spot is something I didn’t think to see….
really think it’s important Gorman/Walker/Scott get off to decent starts.
3 hits for Scott and Church is good to see.

Good to see some base stealing from Scott as well…going to need more of that from more players

Church with a really nice catch at the wall.

[mudville]

Not a great showing from the St. Louis bulllpen. But with the likes of Graceffo, Hence, Gastelum, Hjerpe, maybe Zack Thompsn all waiting in the wings, you have to feel a sense of optimisson about the eventual bullpen.

[jj-cf-stl]

17 hits, 16 singles. They hit .395, so a lot of contact fell in, and Church brought one back.

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