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Laynce Nix is smokin' the ball.
Ed V got it going tonight...0 walks.
Ed V got it going tonight...0 walks.
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Eddie has sat down 15 in a row
, I like Nix and Rosales.
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Yovanni finally lookin like the star he will be
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Originally Posted by jdcurt2
Eddie has sat down 15 in a row
f the last 19 too. two sac bunts as well.next batter will get a hit, watch.
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and it ended
, you think he will come out for the ninth? or Matadortime?
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i dunno...he's only thrown about 102 pitches??? i let him try to finish, at least until someone gets on.
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Hopefully Nix and Rosales come through again, maybe we can get an extra run or two.
There we go Rosie. Damn thought Eddie would go back out, I don't agree with this.
And this one belongs to the Reds!
There we go Rosie. Damn thought Eddie would go back out, I don't agree with this.
And this one belongs to the Reds!
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W!!!!!!!!
15-7
WAINWRIGHT looked terrible today. Five walks...got bout of allot of jams tho.
15-7
WAINWRIGHT looked terrible today. Five walks...got bout of allot of jams tho.
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Yesssss.
Edinson walked outta the dugout to head to the bullpen to stretch pre-game, I yelled good luck Edinson! He looked right at me and said thanks. Then pitched agem.
EE is out of a job if the contact and hustle from Rosales that I saw continutes.
Got my ticket signed by Dusty, and got ANOTHER batting glove tonight, this time either Votto's or Bruce's, not 100% on who, but can't believe I gotone, let alone two in a row.
And had the camera tonight, pics on the blog.
Edinson walked outta the dugout to head to the bullpen to stretch pre-game, I yelled good luck Edinson! He looked right at me and said thanks. Then pitched agem.
EE is out of a job if the contact and hustle from Rosales that I saw continutes.
Got my ticket signed by Dusty, and got ANOTHER batting glove tonight, this time either Votto's or Bruce's, not 100% on who, but can't believe I gotone, let alone two in a row.
And had the camera tonight, pics on the blog.
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Originally Posted by Wisconsin 4 Life
Yovani 8 scoreless with 11 strikeouts and the game winning homerun bomb. What a stud.
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Originally Posted by corwinator3407
Yesssss.
Edinson walked outta the dugout to head to the bullpen to stretch pre-game, I yelled good luck Edinson! He looked right at me and said thanks. Then pitched a gem.
EE is out of a job if the contact and hustle from Rosales that I saw continutes.
Got my ticket signed by Dusty, and got ANOTHER batting glove tonight, this time either Votto's or Bruce's, not 100% on who, but can't believe I got one, let alone two in a row.
And had the camera tonight, pics on the blog.
Pretty cool man, I always enjoy looking at your pics.
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[h3]Cardinals drop down trump card in victory[/h3]
Four-run fifth sends St. Louis to series victory in Atlanta
By Matthew Leach / MLB.com
04/29/09 11:54 PM ET
ATLANTA -- There was almost nothing for the Cardinals to like about Wednesday night's series finale against the Braves at Turner Field, except for the final score.
Shortstop Brendan Ryan left the game in the fifth inning with a left hamstring injury. Adam Wainwright labored through six imprecise innings, needing 110 pitches to get 18 outs. St. Louis pitchers issued seven walks, the offense struck out 10 times and ran into an out on the bases, and the defense committed another error leading to an unearned run. But a 5-3 final score, good for a series win over Atlanta, made it all much easier to take.
St. Louis escaped a hard-fought series in Atlanta with two wins in three games, one of the best records in baseball and a 3 1/2-game lead in the National League Central -- the largest margin in any of MLB's six divisions.
A four-run fifth inning, achieved without the benefit of an extra-base hit, proved the catalyst in delivering the victory. Trailing, 3-1, entering the inning, St. Louis stroked six singles in eight at-bats against Atlanta starter Javier Vazquez. The last three hits all came with two outs as Albert Pujols drove in the tying run, Chris Duncan provided the go-ahead tally and Rick Ankiel drove in an insurance run. Duncan was thrown out trying to advance to third on Ankiel's hit, ending the inning.
"Sometimes you have to win like that," Duncan said. "You can't always rely on home runs. Hal [McRae, hitting coach] said that tonight, that with this guy, we were going to have to beat him with singles. The guy nibbles away and he's got a lot of different pitches, and it's not a guy you can go up there and try to jerk something. We tried to stay patient, and I think everyone did a real good job of just trying to put the ball in play and take the single."
Duncan drove in the winning run, but Barden had the toughest job. When Ryan was pulled in the middle of an at-bat, Barden had to step in and face Vazquez with almost no warmup. He swung at the first pitch he saw, a 2-2 curveball from Vazquez, and poked a single to center field. Barden remained in the game as the shortstop.
"You just try to put the ball in play, and not hit into a double play and be an inning-killer," Barden said. "I was just lucky to find a hole out there, and I'm glad [center fielder Jordan Schafer] was playing as deep as he was."
The rally got Wainwright off the hook and allowed him to pick up his third win in five starts. Wainwright again wasn't particularly sharp, but he fought through some iffy command in order to last six innings. He walked five against only two strikeouts, but permitted just three runs -- two earned.
Four of Wainwright's walks and all of the runs against him came in the first three innings. He pitched a 1-2-3 fourth before making his biggest pitch in the fifth. With the bases loaded and David Ross at the plate, Wainwright appeared to fan Ross on an 0-2 pitch. But Ross was ruled to have tipped the ball, keeping the at-bat alive. Ross worked the count full before Wainwright froze him with a curveball.
He got through the sixth without damage, handing it over to the bullpen having worked a quality start.
"I'm not pitching good," Wainwright said. "I'm not pitching my best, I'll say that. But I have gotten out of a lot of hairy situations with minimal damage. I'm keeping my team in the game. I'm not exactly proud of how I'm pitching, but I will pitch better."
Dennys Reyes, Chris Perez, Jason Motte and Ryan Franklin combined for three effective innings of relief for the Cardinals. Franklin recorded his seventh save in seven chances via a four-out effort.
Matthew Leach is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
That was a shaky outing by Wainwright, but the offenseca,e through and the Cards grabbed another series. Now it's on to Washington D.C.
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I have been avoiding coming in here. How you gonna score a ton of runs one night and do jack the next? I am so confused.
Yeah, I am not amused at all right now.
I said it in the offseason, why are we over reacting with the team make over on a 97 win team? Yes they failed in the postseason, but you tweak that, notbreak off 6 peices and bring in a bunch of new people.
Wood should be here.
DeRosa should be here.
Marquis should be here.
Hell, maybe even Edmonds should be here.
Most of them gone, just for Bradley.
I said it in the offseason, why are we over reacting with the team make over on a 97 win team? Yes they failed in the postseason, but you tweak that, notbreak off 6 peices and bring in a bunch of new people.
Wood should be here.
DeRosa should be here.
Marquis should be here.
Hell, maybe even Edmonds should be here.
Most of them gone, just for Bradley.
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Wow......I thought you guys hated these two.Originally Posted by CP1708
Yeah, I am not amused at all right now.
I said it in the offseason, why are we over reacting with the team make over on a 97 win team? Yes they failed in the postseason, but you tweak that, not break off 6 peices and bring in a bunch of new people.
Wood should be here.
DeRosa should be here.
Marquis should be here.
Hell, maybe even Edmonds should be here.
Most of them gone, just for Bradley.
i guess yall realized that just because they are former cardinals that they arent that bad (Cept for Marquis, he isnt that good to me)
DeRosa is doing pretty good in cleveland i hear........Yall probably should have kept him
Originally Posted by pacmagic2002
Wow......I thought you guys hated these two.Originally Posted by CP1708
Yeah, I am not amused at all right now.
I said it in the offseason, why are we over reacting with the team make over on a 97 win team? Yes they failed in the postseason, but you tweak that, not break off 6 peices and bring in a bunch of new people.
Wood should be here.
DeRosa should be here.
Marquis should be here.
Hell, maybe even Edmonds should be here.
Most of them gone, just for Bradley.
i guess yall realized that just because they are former cardinals that they arent that bad (Cept for Marquis, he isnt that good to me)
DeRosa is doing pretty good in cleveland i hear........Yall probably should have kept him
Oh I don't like Edmonds, but he was a big part of what happened last year. He was solid and no reason to be mad at that. He wasn't great, buthe's a smart vet and hat a few big hits for us.
Marquis I actually liked a little, but for different reasons. He was never great, but he would throw 6, pitch every five days without worry, and in a pinch,he could run the bases for us, or even pinch hit/bunt in late/extra innings. That's valuable for 162 games. Granted, he would have a game once or twice amonth where he was down 9-0 in the 4th inning, but there were plenty of games he would win 4-3 also. 12-13 wins a season outta the 5 spot? I'll take thatANY day.
I dunno, we need to get Soto up and running, get Aramis back, and then maybe they'll get it going. But I called it WAY before the year started, wecan't expect the same season outta Dempster we got last year, and it looks quite obvious that he is not going to go 17-6 again. That compounds gettin ridof Marquis.
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DeRosa is doing pretty good in Cleveland, he's on my fantasy team.
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Mark derosa
still can't believe we got rid of him, this guy was hitting like .600 against the reds
it always seemed like whenever people werestruggling he would be the one that got a big hit
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The Cubs should have just kept Derosa and never even thought about signing Milt.
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Yea.......Never trust a person with the same name as a board game company.
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wood and derosa yes
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For Wildcat and Corwin: I thought this was funny
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Do any of the other baseball cities have this program available????
This is actually something they had last year, but i never got up early enough to do it.......pretty good deal in these days and times....PLUS (SEE BOLD AREAS)
The other good thing about it is not allot of people know about it....YEA, you gotta be in line for about 30 minutes.........but they did this for a cubs gameand i got in for $11 total.......sat in the bleacher seats (were selling for $30 each ticket on stubhub.com)
This is actually something they had last year, but i never got up early enough to do it.......pretty good deal in these days and times....PLUS (SEE BOLD AREAS)
The other good thing about it is not allot of people know about it....YEA, you gotta be in line for about 30 minutes.........but they did this for a cubs gameand i got in for $11 total.......sat in the bleacher seats (were selling for $30 each ticket on stubhub.com)
