The Cards go from their worst game of the year to possibly their best.
Seriously, find me a Goat in that game! We've got Schumaker and Barton throwing out back-to-back runners at the plate. Lohse gives up two runs in 5 and a third and the bullpen shuts down the Giants. And even the two runs Lohse gave up were due to bloop hits, in large part. Every starter that didn't pitch got a base hit. No errors were committed by the Cardinals. Talk about a tough one.
But because I'm a completist and have to assign it in every game, I'll go with
Kyle Lohse, just because he did give up 8 hits and a walk in his time out there. That kind of WHIP will come back and get you with better teams.
If there's that much trouble hunting up a Goat, the flip side is that there are a lot of Heroes. Schumaker (thanks to the Giants porous defense) got on five times and scored four runs. Barton drove in his first two RBI in his career and made a nifty grab out in left. Ludwick went yard and had five total bases. Kyle McClellan comes in with the tying run at the plate and pitches 1.2 scoreless.
However, for all that, you still have to go to El Hombre.
Albert Pujols not only gave the Cards an early lead, he then erased the Giants lead with a three-run bomb. After that, it was all downhill for the Giants.
No TV for today's game between Todd Wellemeyer and Matt Cain. After a couple of years of having almost everything on TV, it's a little strange not to have this one televised. Hopefully the Cardinals will be able to handle the young ace of the Giants staff. Of course,
it won't be from experience if they do. It appears that Cain has never pitched against the Cardinals, with the few ABs anyone on the team has gotten from him being on another squad. It's pretty rare when one of our relievers-turned-starters
has faced the opposing team more.
Coupled with other results last night, the Cardinals have the best record in baseball (8-3) and a 1.5 game lead on the Brewers and Cubs. All the standard caveats apply, but you'd still rather have this result than a lot of others. Let's see if they can keep it rolling this afternoon.
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C70--
Game's on mlb.tv today, if you subscribe. The national Fox blackout doesn't start until next weeked.
DD
Thanks for the information, though I don't have mlb.tv. Still good to know! I don't think about the new-fangled stuff. :)