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It looks like there is quite a bit of rain in the St. Louis area at the moment. But according to the Doppler Radar it might all be out of the area by 4:00 St. Louis time.
Having said that, it does appear there might be more rain southwest of St. Louis that could impact the game later tonight.
So, keep your fingers crossed that this one is played.
In the meantime, as soon as I hit Enter I am heading to the Amish restaurant. It is a CCFF! That’s Cardinal Catfish Fiddlers Friday!
r/Esteemed Rat
FYI,
Update,
The Nationals and Reds are in a rain delay. So are the Padres and Pirates. The Doppler Radar shows some green stuff just west of St. Louis that might impact the game around time of first pitch or in the early innings.Keep your fingers crossed. A delay is likely tonight.
r/Esteemed Rat
Here it is. Game time and no posts on this thread.
What is happening to the Cardinals is apparently also happening here at Cardinal Nation.
Unless, of course, everybody is out having Catfish Fiddlers.
r/Esteemed Rat
Maybe this series the Mets great pitching will get hammered. The last series did not go so well for the Cards.
I’m here Rats. Noot with a 2 bagger to start the game. He has been a very good leadoff hitter this year.
And that great SB leads to a run with Winn hitting a GB up the middle that looks like Winn was safe. Great start to the game by Noot manufacturing that run.
Cards an early run off of Clay “Ducky” Holmes.
There was a SABR article awhile back about how there were something like a half dozen “Ducky Holmes” over the first 40 years or so of the modern MLB era. It seemed if a guy was named “Holmes”, he was always “Ducky”.
Well the Mets get the lead back. A weak little bloop hit turned into a series of singles and small ball to get 2 across for the Mets
Gray really struggled in that second inning. We were lucky the Metropolitans did not put up more than two.
Burly with a single off of Holmes foot. I still don’t understand how someone who looks like Burly is a singles hitter and doesn’t hit for more power. Only 3 extra base hits so far this year for him.
Burly looked like he was coming along as a power hitter last year. But then it practically vanished the last six weeks or so of the season.
Whoa, Ted Simmons in the park, along with new Cardinal Hall of Famer The Mad Hungarian.
And now Victor steals third, and scores! Two steals of third tonight by this Redbird club. #11 is 11 for 11 in steals so far.
Victor with the bunt thread gets the corners drawn in and then squeezes a hit through the left side. Noot advanced him to 2nd and then Victor stole 3B with a errant throw and scores the run. Good baserunning and fundamentals for both of the Cards runs tonight
Contreras drives in Winn. If both Winn and Contreras can get going, this offense will look quite good.
Al should have been presented with one of those gaudy red sportcoats a long time ago. I mean, he’s AL for goodness sake!
Happy to see Hrabosky in the Cardinals Hall. Those ‘70s teams were tough to root for as there were so many “what if’s”, with former Cardinals all over the place doing great while the guys we had were not so good.
But Al was one of the most entertaining, not too mention best at what he did in the game there for a few years. Seems to be a really good guy too.
All jokes aside, anyone who ever sat in a seat at Busch Memorial Stadium and heard how racous and rowdy Cardinal fans became whenever Hrabosky was summoned from the BP to work to an an opposing hitter knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Hrabosky is a Redbird legend. He always put on a first rate show for baseball fans, and that’s what it’s all about. In addition to that, Al was fearless on the pitcher’s mound and he could really pitch.
I was living in LA in ‘75, and the Dodgers were in St. Louis just before the All Star break that year. They were televising the games locally in LA and there was an uproar in St. Louis as NL all-star manager Walt Alston did not include Hrabosky on the team.
As I recall Al came in and saved the game for the Cardinals right before the break, to sort of “stick it” to Alston. He might have saved a couple of games in that series.
Soto with a 2B and then an Alonso bomb. Alonso is trying to really show he deserved a massive contract instead of just the average one he got.
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