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Yeah, boohyah, he chased on that fastball up above the letters. I’ve never seen a LH’ed hitter that can handle that pitch. Heck, the only RH’ed hitter that ever had a chance on that one was Vlad…Haha!
Yep, a lot of hits but only one run. Great road trip. Will be a tough series next against those big bad Bengals.
I’ll be curious to see the gate count for the 3 games vs. the Tigers. I’d have to say that Willie Jr. and the boys are wishing this series would have been scheduled for a weekend as opposed to commencing on a Monday. In any case, my guess is that these 3 games should draw a nice crowd after the recent road success that has the team vaulted upward in the standings.
A little humor never hurts after a loss…”He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side”…Gaylord Perry referencing his difficulty in getting Rod Carew out.
I’ll be curious to see the gate count for the 3 games vs. the Tigers. I’d have to say that Willie Jr. and the boys are wishing this series would have been scheduled for a weekend as opposed to commencing on a Monday. In any case, my guess is that these 3 games should draw a nice crowd after the recent road success that has the team vaulted upward in the standings.
Wishful thinking. My guess is it’ll be the same as we’ve seen this season so far and somewhat like we saw last year during the week. Kids are still in school and the fans and especially the ones that travel 1.5-2 hours still don’t have any trust in this ownership and team enough to travel and spend money.
I honestly think that is what is killing attendance more than anything. Those so called a hardcore fans who drive long distances aren’t will to make the trek for something they see as questionable. Maybe if they can manage to grab the central lead and hold onto it then may some of them return.
I mean we saw this last year when the team held a wild card spot for about 6 weeks. The fans still weren’t showing like they used to. I think unless we get another level of sustained success that 2024 attendance numbers might be about the best we get back to.
It sometimes takes a year for attendance to ramp up. If this club keeps playing well and gets into a solid post season position then late season attendance should increase. And next year will ramp up. It’s still too early to know if this is a real good team, or they are riding a hot streak.
Some fun young guys on this club though. Gotta like Herrera, Winn, Scott, Donovan and Leahy. Some nice auditions by Graceffo and McGreevy also.
You may be entirely right, booyah. And I’ll add that a lot of the drop off may be a simple case of not being able to afford the high cast of fun at the old ballpark these days. I’m going to guess that a game along with a reasonable amount of snacks and refreshments is a pricey proposition for a working guy who brings along two or three youngsters. When my son was young, I had attending a ballgame down to a fine art concerning economics, and we attended quite a few every season, but they’ve since made my methods impossible to deploy. You can’t hardly attend a game anymore unless you bring along the proverbial bankroll, and that’s a shame, because at one time a baseball game was first rate affordable entertainment. No more.
I agree that Redbird fans may hesitate for a minute or two in order to get a better read on this season’s edition before they begin to return en masse to the ballpark, but it’s been my experience that the best way to make the turnstiles sing is to have a dead heat sort of race in the standings between division rivals coupled with plenty of head to head matchups between those two teams. And the new scheduling format doesn’t afford as many opportunities to match up arch enemies who are fighting tooth and nail for a division crown during the last two months of a season. I recall several late season Cardinals/Mets series in the 80’s that were just as, or even moreso, raucous and rowdy as any post-season game I’ve attended. Gates that approached 50K and decibel levels that rivaled an airstrip tarmac. If the Cardinals and Cubbies are neck and neck in Aug. and Sept. it’ll be a genuine shame that the new scheduling format won’t afford more head to head games between the two teams.
Haha…They do now, Rat, and he’s ripping the baseball at a torrid .429 clip…His name’s, Ivan Hornsby!
Attendance would benefit if St. Louis had somebody on the team that could hit.
I’m guessing you are just trying to pull everyone’s leg at this point right?
All this team does is hit, hit, hit. They could slug, slug, slug a little more to improve, but the offense as a whole has been outstanding.
STL Cardinal Ranks in MLB
BA – 4th
OBP – 5th
SLG – 10th
HR – 20th
Runs Scored – 7thYeah, right now this team hits, pitches and catches the ball as good as just about any Cardinal club in recent memory. Whether this is just a good stretch or they continue remains to be seen.
I would tweak the lineup a little and move Herrera to four, and Arenado down to six. Then stick with that top six game in and game out. For now I keep Scott at nine, sort of like a second lead off hitter once the lineup turns. Seven and eight is some combo of Walker, Burleson, Pages, Pozo, or Barrero. Gorman seems to be the odd man out right now, spelling Arenado once a week or so.
Ever since I was a youngster I’ve always enjoyed pouring over all of those endless numbers that baseball offers up to fans of the game. I’ve also probably always been more partial towards the offensive numbers. I mean, who doesn’t like seeing all those gaudy numbers coming off of the bats like .300 BA’s, taters, RBI’s, hits, doubles, triples, etc. And all of those numbers are important to a varying degree, but at the end of the day the only number on offense that really matters is RUNS…In a similar paralnce of Al Davis…Just score, baby…Haha! And placing 7th out of 30 teams, is pretty good.
If they have players on this team that can hit then why do we see the following:
Pages .232
Contreras .256
Arenado .242
Nootbaar .254
Walker .189
Gorman .173And nope, I don’t give a rats a$$ what their OPZ or WOR+ or GWIP, etc, etc says.
Winn .270
Scott .264
These two are borderline.This team that’s such an offensive powerhouse scored 3, 1, and 1 in the KC series.
All jokes aside, the reality is that even though I like his mitt over on the left corner of the IF, Arenado has to put a little wood into his bat when he stands in the box with runners aboard. I’ve seen him squander way too many RBI opportunities by chasing the first pitch and either popping the baseball into the air, or tapping out with a weak ground ball. Once upon a time he was a dangerous hitter and pitchers worked to him carefully, but I’ve noticed that the opposition goes right after him as of late. I’d like to see him display a little more patience at the plate and try to work the counts into his favor in the hope of possibly getting some pitches that he can drive and hopefully generate some genuine power production. More easily said than done, I know, but he’s been slotted at cleanup all season long, so he has to begin to push some baserunners across HP if this offense is going to consistently score enough runs to win.
Mlb is batting .243, and StL ranks second highest (.262).
We have 9 starters above the average BA, and 4 bench bats lower. Good catch Rats.Arenado has the 11th highest infield fly ball percentage (16.1) among qualified hitters. It is interesting that many at the top of this list are considered pretty good hitters: Adolis Garcia, Arozarena, Altuve, Carlos Santana, and Matt Chapman – all with an even higher infield fly rate than Arenado.
Last season Arenado finished at 11th as well at 15.5%. Corbin Carroll was actually number 2 at over 20%. Our old friend Lane Thomas was 3rd.
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