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No Use Looking Back

Posted on May 13, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Filed Under: Baseball | Heroes and Goats | Milwaukee Brewers | St. Louis Cardinals
Really not much to say about last night's game.  Though I'm sure that the Yadier Molina meltdown had to be fairly entertaining to watch.

Let's assign the nightly tags and be done with last night's game.  I'll give the Hero tag to Rick Ankiel, who hit another home run to briefly give the Cards the lead.  Another solo shot, though, which has been a bit of an issue with the Cardinals.  And as big of a part to the early success he's been, last night's Goat goes to Adam Wainwright.  He was nice to see him hang in there for six innings, but eight runs is a heck of a lot for this lineup to try to overcome.

The Cardinals played game 40 last night.  They went 13-7 in their first 20, 10-10 in the last half.  The next twenty will take the Cards through June 3 and a game in Washington.  They play 13 of those 20 at home, so they should be able to bounce back a little bit and hopefully post an over .500 record for that stretch.  If they can do that, say another 13-7 (with 7 games against the Pirates in that stretch, it should be possible), they'll definitely hang around the top of the NL Central.  Being within a couple of games at the beginning of June would be well beyond anyone's expectations for this team.

They start that run tonight against the Pirates at home in Busch.  Kyle Lohse is coming off of two terrible outings, so he needs to get out there and right the ship.  Chris Gomez has done some damage against him, but other than that he's been able to handle the Pirates fairly well in his career.  He's not faced the Pittsburgh team yet this season.

Going for the Bucs is Phil Dumatrait.  The Cards faced him back on April 24 in a game the Cardinals won 6-2.  He didn't start, but came in to the game in relief of Tom Gorzelanny and allowed 2 runs in two innings.  Limited exposure to Dumatrait for the Redbird, but they've liked what they've seen.  Especially Molina, assuming he's not sitting the bench after the tirade.

Get your YNOT picks in and a CardsClubhouse preview will probably go up this afternoon.


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Heroes
Albert Pujols (18)
Colby Rasmus (9)
Ryan Ludwick (8)
Yadier Molina (7)
Rick Ankiel
(5)
Joel Pineiro
(5)
Chris Carpenter (4)
Brendan Ryan (3)
Nick Stavinoha (3)
Chris Duncan (2)
Ryan Franklin (2)
Kyle Lohse (2)
Skip Schumaker (2)
Adam Wainwright (2)
Todd Wellemeyer (2)
David Freese (1)
Tyler Greene (1)
Jason LaRue (1)
Trever Miller (1)
Joe Thurston (1)

2008 Top Hero: Albert Pujols (25)

Goats
Todd Wellemeyer (8)
Rick Ankiel (7)
Chris Duncan (7)
Colby Rasmus (6)
Jason Motte (5)
Joel Pineiro (5)
Joe Thurston (5)
Ryan Ludwick (4)
Yadier Molina (3)
Albert Pujols (3)
Skip Schumaker (3)
Adam Wainwright (3)
Brian Barden (2)
Josh Kinney (2)
Kyle McClellan (2)
Dennys Reyes (2)
Ryan Franklin (1)
David Freese (1)
Khalil Greene (1)
Tyler Greene (1)
Jason LaRue (1)
Kyle Lohse (1)
Chris Perez (1)
Brendan Ryan (1)
Skip Schumaker (1)
Nick Stavinoha (1)
Brad Thompson (1)
PJ Walters (1)

2008 Top Goat: Troy Glaus (13)

    Cardinal Nation Approval Ratings (March 2009)
    Albert Pujols 97.9%
    Yadier Molina 93.4%
    Mike Shannon 91.6%
    Dave Duncan 84.2%
    Rick Ankiel 83.9%
    John Rooney 80.9%
    Bill DeWitt 80.2%
    Tony LaRussa 79.1%
    Kyle Lohse 77.3%
    Chris Duncan 69.1%
    Colby Rasmus 66.0%
    Al Hrbrosky 53.9%


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