St. Louis 2025 Game #133 thread – Tuesday, August 26 vs. Pittsburgh Pirates

[Brian Walton]

6:45 p.m.
RHP Andre Pallante (6-11, 5.17) vs. RHP Mitch Keller (5-12, 4.34)
FanDuel // KMOX // WIJR

[bicyclemike]

Anyone excited for this series between the two worst teams in the NLC? We have a starter tonight who is five games under .500 at the moment, with an ERA over 5. Not too hard to see why our record is near the bottom of the NLC.

[Brian Walton]

Something to look forward to tomorrow!

[stlcard25]

Pallante is pitching for a chance to pitch again in the rotation in 2026, I would think. Unless the Cards want to run out a losing team again, they desperately need two guys better than Pallante and Mikolas in the rotation. Gray, McGreevy and Liberatore (who I think will be better with a full off-season to build up his arm) are ok in those 2-4 slots, but we really have two guys who shouldn’t be starting big league games.

[Cardinal in France]

My money is on TBA.

[ZTR]

Hey now it could always be worse.

[blingboy]

Their guy’s record is even worse than Pallante’s.

[CardsFanInChiTown]

As of right now, and his on field performance not improving, Pallante as a long man in the bullpen is hopefully in the Cards (pun dintended) for 2026.

[stlcard25]

Their guy’s record is even worse than Pallante’s.

If Pallante was on the Pirates, who knows how bad his record might be? Meanwhile, Keller would be just behind Gray and Libby for the best best ERA in the Cardinal rotation.

[jj-cf-stl]

fastball .890 ops allowed
sinker .796
offspeed knuckle-curve is a ball more often than a strike.
Andre is not showing he has a starters pitches.

[bicyclemike]

Nice comeback win last night. Yeah, Pallante is a middle reliever who starts for us because we need someone to fill a rotation spot, and we were not gutsy enough to bring up McGreevy earlier. Now that Fedde has been jettisoned, McG took that spot and Pallante is still in the rotation.

Can Bloom upgrade the rotation next year? Or will a couple of the Memphis kids take strides and provide quality starts? We will see.

[Steve60]

Does Pallante ever make out of the first couple of innings without giving up multiple runs! Getting ridiculous!

[jj-cf-stl]

“Another fastball, another hit” – Horton

[1toughdominican]

I can’t remember seeing 4 runs on 5 hits in such a short timespan.

[jj-cf-stl]

Try striking someone out.

[osuagec]

Good grief! Pallante getting rocked. Given up 5 first inning runs so far.

[1toughdominican]

Well, maybe I do, but it was the Cardinals doing the hitting and scoring against the Braves in game 5 of the ’19 NLDS.

[bicyclemike]

It’s never good when your starter can’t control the game. Simply have to get better rotation production next year.

[stlcard25]

Pallante pitches his team right out of the game in the first. Not good.

[858booyah]

Pallante will be our 2026 version of Mikolas. Lol

[bicyclemike]

This game is an example of conflicting terms: “pretty ugly”.

[forsch31]

Pallante back out in the fifth to save the bullpen. Gorman put the Cardinals on the board in the bottom of the fourth with a long home run. 8-2 Pirates.

[1toughdominican]

Haha…That young girl’s dance of elation after getting that game ball tossed to her may be the Cardinal highlight of the season! Always nice to see the kids enjoying themselves at the game. Makes me wish I wasn’t so old and grouchy…

[blingboy]

We struck out 11 times through 7 innings.

[1toughdominican]

Well, that’s 1 K less than Larry’s 12 K’s in 656 PA’s during the 1950 season. He also hit .322 while collecting 124 RBI’s and 28 taters that year. But everyone knows that baseball players are much better these days.

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