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We won the pitch count battle in the first FWIW. Really good AB by Weatherholt to lead off and super easy inning for McGreevey. Keep it going.
Wetherholt reaches base on the lead-off single and then moves up to 2B with the SB. His OBP is at .364 which isn’t a world beater, but that’s pretty good for guy who’s hitting .243. He also leads the team in runs scored with 35 and runs are still important in baseball…
PETE CROW-ARMSTRONG of the Cubs just let a single to CF go under his glove all the way to the CF wall. The batter came all the way around to score! It’s 3-0 Brewers now!
With all that’s been going on with him lately that’s hysterical!
Not sure if it’s an inside-the-parker but but is a little league homerun!
Horowitz hits a one backer that is gone in 2 seconds. Otherwise a pretty nice 2nd for McGreevey. Lots of ground balls.
Church looks so much bigger and stronger than he once looked in his early minor league days. An 11th rounder that never got much attention. But the Cardinals kept promoting him ahead of Iadisernia who was drafted several spots ahead of him. Iadisernia would end up on prospect lists despite that. A few seasons later Iadisernia is gone and Church is a starting left fielder – well at least until Noot gets back. He’s really a pretty amazing story. He used to have zero power and wasn’t really much of a hitter in general.
2 tappers to 3B that a better third baseman than Prieto may have made lead to a 2nd run off McGreevey through 4 innings. He really struggled throwing first or second pitch strikes that inning. Not typical McGreevey. I’m worried he may be tiring early.
McGreevy had a hard time escaping the 4th as he’s now allowed 2 runs on 6 hits and a BB at 70 pitches. I don’t guess it matters if the Redbirds don’t score some runs. Had the right guy lead-off an inning twice with a base hit and couldn’t push him across. Need the rest of the bats to generate some action.
Prieto centered that baseball up, but I still can’t fathom the reason he’s slotted in front of Church.
I was a bit surprised by that too. You could argue Prieto was more successful at AAA than Church and maybe that’s why, but Prieto has been dreadful in a limited number of MLB ABs.
Ugly start to the 6th as the Pirates get back to back to back base hits to load the bases. Bruihl coming in. This one could get ugly here.
Pop up to shallow CF, sac fly to medium right that Jordan throws at bit wild home (that’s been a trend with him lately), and then an easy ground out to 2B ends the inning. 3-0 bad guys now.
I’d say the Cardinals are fortunate to trail by only 3 runs as the Pirates have scattered around 10 hits that included the solo tater.
Ugh! Likely our best chance to cut into the lead. Our 1-5 get one more Crack at it. Not looking great.
I thought he had the GS too. Or at least a double off the wall. Nice play by Mangum to keep the shutout going.
Yeah, Jnevel, with 2 outs a double would have undoubtedly cleared the bases and tied the game, but I thought he’d given the Cardinals the lead with the GS when I saw it leave the bat. It’s a little chilly in StL tonight and it just didn’t carry far enough.
Now trailing by 5, it doesn’t look like the Redbirds have much of a chance to pull this one from the fire, but the good news is that the Brewers just handed the Cubbies their 5th consecutive L by a final of 5-0 at Wrigley. Well, maybe that’s not such good news…we’re chasing the Brewers not the Cubbies…Haha!
Looks like the organization is going 0-6 tonight. Already down 4 minors games and Springfield is down 6-0 in game 2 of their double header.
Cards now down 5-0. Hard luck inning for Svanson here. Several weak grounders that found holes. A ball to Wetherholt that would have probably been a DP but for some reason the infield was playing in and it went by him. Then a liner to Walker that it looked like he’d catch, but then he pulled up and played it on the hop. We are getting singled to death tonight.
And now Reynolds gets a 2-run double to chase Svanson. At this point Svanson may need to be swapped with Ryan Fernandez at Memphis.
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