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That’s the exact recipe for offensive success, Bling.
Pallante kind of begging for 1st inning trouble as he’s walked 2. And Cortes lines a shot up the middle, but that’s exactly where Winn had him played…..we head to the 2nd in a 4-0 St. Louis ballgame.
I hope we will be privy soon to how these home plate umps are faring on their balls and strikes, now that their judgements can almost immediately be checked for accuracy. They should list the league’s best and worst right under the league leading players stats.
That knuckle-curve Pallante just flung was something special. Let’s see more of those……and we’ll be seeing more of him for the years to come.
Pallante sets the A’s down in order in the 2nd. 32 pitches thus far…..the last out on a very close play at 1st….nicely executed by Saggese at 3rd…..and Sacramento is challenging the call…….and the A’s win their protest so unfortunately the inning carries on. McNeil lofts a short but effective fly ball into short left field as it falls in for a hit. And now we get what we didn’t want with multiple runners on base…..KURTZ.
Kurtz lines a base hit to center scoring a run and what was clear sailing has now been transformed into a dark cloud shrouding the stadium here in the 2nd.
Langeliers splits the gap in left-center field that scores both McNeil and Kurtz and now the Redbird lead has been severely compromised……4-3. Truly is a game of inches as the challenge the A’s just won by an inch, not only resulted in a bunch of runs for them, but has also tacked on a bunch of extra pitches on Pallante’s arm.
Soderstom pops out to Winn at short.
Cards 4
A’s 3Really working JJ up and in. That seems to be a general trend lately for him. He tends to swing at high pitches inside or out over the middle.
There’s Kurtz again in the on deck circle. It seems like he comes up about every 4th batter…..great Pallante gets his man so we won’t see Captain Kurtz until next inning…..fortunately with nobody on base.
So refreshing in that Walker seldom chases those pitches off the outside of the plate. Last year he never saw one of those that he didn’t like. The light bulb has certainly clicked on for this young man.
Hello Pugs . . . And 1TD. I’m often checking in here just to either find out the weather in SW Indiana or hear the “Das Boot” call!
Haha…That was a textbook Das Boot from the A’s SS. You could almost see it coming as his feet were all cattywampus while he was moving to his left before the routine bouncing ball glanced off the heel of his mitt. He thoroughly booted that baseball…
JJ plants a long one into the right field cheap seats……#8 is worth 2, extending the Cardinal lead to 6-3. We sure have some quality young boppers on this team…..a team that has forgotten alllll about Sunday’s debacle.
Yeah, Pugs, that’s a lot of taters for a 2B to have collected before mid May. This youngster may work out to something good over on the right side of the Cardinal IF.
Don’t look now, but this may end up being the most exciting Cardinals summer in quite a few years. When you totally break down a team it just goes without saying that it’s going to be a couple years at the earliest before you’re ready to compete at a high level…..what happened to this 2026 Cardinals squad?
what happened to this 2026 Cardinals squad?
Jordan Walker and JJ Wetherholt happened. In between are 2 guys we already knew could hit. Consistent run producing top of the order night after night.
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