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In fairness to Pallante he didn’t pitch that badly. He never actually caved. He hung his knuckle curve for a 3 run HR. But the rest of the scoring happened because everything the Brewers hit found a place to snake through the infield or drop just out of reach in the outfield.
This Brewers scoring in the top of the second started with Herrera allowing Pallante’s
outside pitch to get by him and that allowed the runner to advance.You dealt with the emergency really well, Rat. Glad you didn’t quite panic even though it no doubt was a hair raising experience.
I wonder if Dustin May’s foot hurt as much as Jordan Walker’s fingers hurt after he got hit by a pitch.
Who’s the brains of the Brewers organization? They’re consistently doing what I can only hope Bloom can do. Same goes for the Guardians. They appear to have an amazing brain trust, also. And as long as I’m rambling, I should also mention the Devil Rays. And there must be teams that I am unintentionally overlooking. For example, the current White Sox, who, to quote the Rev. Jesse Jackson, have recently gone ‘From the outhouse to the penthouse’, at least for the time being. Regardless, if you’re a White Sox fan, you’re diggin’ it.
Then there is a whole bevy of teams who can’t win without spending exorbitant amounts of cash, or handing out PED’s like it was Halloween candy, or both.
In the end I want the games to be played for no other reason than to entertain fans by teammates and opposing players playing to bring out the best in each other.
I’m not as high on Herrera as some fans are. But that’s just my take. His batting stance, to me, is extraordinary and it looks like he’s going to smash the ball far and away each AB. But that doesn’t happen as often as expected.
I’m pretty sure Chip Caray said the umpire for Saturday night’s game was a guy named Moreno. Is there any way he could be added to the retirement list, or at least prohibited from calling balls and strikes? It was embarrassing watching him. Thank goodness the players were able to maintain a sense of dignity.
Please keep up the good work, Rat.
Something like what happened with Liberatore is about what I expected. Yeah, he stayed in the game through the 5th inning. But he put down much traffic on the base paths that he could have gotten heavily scored upon in every inning. But somehow he cheated the devil each time. Libby will be a one or two inning reliever someday. I wish him the best.
Given May’s 4-6 record and 4.70 ERA, unless they want to unload his salary or make way for someone else, I see no reason to trade him. I see a Nootbaar trade as a gut punch. I don’t see who’s next up to replace Romero for the eight inning. But I hope he does well wherever he winds up. He!s been a life saver for the Cardinals many times.
I agree that Fermin may not be the answer. In fact, it appears that he is definitely not the answer. But the alternative has not yet emerged. My apologies to those who favor Blaze Jordan. I just don’t see it that way. It’s up to Bloom to find us a third baseman.
Fermin is still learning 3B. We really don’t know if he’s a third baseman, or not. I, for one, am willingly to find out.
Woodford showed promise for the Cardinals at one. Good luck to him if he gets cut from the Cubs and winds up with another team.
Very entertaining game….again.
Loved seeing Pages throw PCA out trying to
steal.
Loved the way Oli managed the game like it was a must win.
Excellent defense….. and offense.And the Mets, with their $382M, MLB leadingpayroll, are in last place in the NL East, 16 games back. The Rays are dominating the American League East with their $113M payroll, only $8M higher than the Cardinals payroll.
I think, if Pallante can ever consistently
spot that knuckle curve he throws, it could get him some easy outs and let him go deeper into games. (I’ve been wanting to comment on that Friday’s game, but didn’t get around to it until now.)That is interesting, ATM. I guess someone finally convinced Matthews that the name of the pitching game is ‘off speed, off speed, off speed’. We might be seeing him sooner rather than later. I’ve bee intrigued by how fast Matthews moved through his first year of pro ball since it happened.
Nice to see everything sorted out and organized. Eleven players who OPS’d .950 or above in June sounds good. But it’s hard to evaluate something like that without a standard of comparison. I am not asking that someone should figure out how many other teams had 11 players who OPS’d .950 or above. Just commenting.
If there’s a third baseman that can be acquired, I think the Cardinals should really push hard to get him. I’v seen at least three balls roll right understand Nlaze Jordan’glove glove. Winn sees a ground ball headed for Jordan and runs behind him to get the ball in case Jordan can’t pick it up. We’d have been a lot better off we’d have kept Arenado. We are paying him anyway. But then, who would have thought Gorman was going to be such a bust?
On another note, if they trade Romero, it’s nice to see that Gastelum, TCN Pitcher of the Month, can get RH and LH batters out equally well.
If they trade Nootbaar, they ought to be able to get just about any prospect they want. Boston could use some outfield help and they like they are loaded with promising pitching prospects. The trouble is that the Red Sox are buried in the AL East, and might not want to trade.
