Big 1st innings for the Cards. Muñoz keeps hacking away for that opening day roster spot. 6-0 Cards after one. Marlins Urena last just 0.1 IP which considering this late in ST can’t be good.
2nd inning and Cards have already plated 2 more runs. This is the offensive outburst we’ve been waiting on.
Carp gets 2 plate appearances and gets 8 straight balls. He doesn’t get to swing the bat. With Cards up 11-0 his day is finished and we’ll have to wait another day to see him test the shoulder/back.
I read yesterday where Carp admitted that he got in trouble last year by focusing too much on power but this year he was going to back to playing “his game”. I like the sound of that although I’d still rather have him hit leadoff and have Fowler hit third.
A word of caution for anyone using Gameday to determine how many pitches a batter faces during an at-bat or a pitcher throws during an at-bat: they don’t show all the pitches.
As an example, it was posted that Carpenter saw 8 straight balls during his at-bats yesterday. Actually, he had 4 straight balls in his first at-bat but swung and fouled off 3 pitches in his second at-bat. Since he walked in his second at-bat, Gameday showed that he only saw 4 pitches and they were all balls when he actually saw at least 7 pitches.
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