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Shows What I Know

Posted on June 9, 2011 at 7:03 AM
Filed Under: Heroes and Goats | Houston Astros | St. Louis Cardinals
I've occasionally said that Albert Pujols reads this blog, because I'll write something and he'll either go out and justify or, more likely, take offense at it and go off.  If that's the case, perhaps Bud Norris reads his press clippings as well.

Yesterday, I said that Norris's "hold on the Cardinals is starting to weaken," due to the fact they'd been able to get to him some this year.  However, that wasn't the case last night, as Norris took a no-hitter into the seventh before winning yet another game against the Redbirds.

I wasn't able to see much of this game due to various pre-trip preparations that had to be made, but it doesn't sound like I missed much.  Obviously the Hero of the game was Lance Berkman, who kept the Cards from being no-hit and shut out.  Albert Pujols got the only other hit, meaning Ryan Theriot's hit streak went by the boards.  Sounds like AP almost kept his homer streak alive as well with a deep fly that was caught in center.

Jamie Garcia probably gets the Goat for being very inconsistent with his pitching.  He didn't allow much, just three runs, but he also threw more pitches in five innings than he's thrown in some complete games.  Ryan Franklin did a very good job out of the pen and will be getting more and more pressure innings going forward, I'm fairly sure.  Jason Motte allowed the last run in the ninth, but by then the story was pretty much written.

However, there are going to be games like that during the season.  Games where you just can't dent the other pitcher.  Games where the other guy has your number.  You shake them off and move on.

Day 3 of the draft is a roster-filler type of day, with only the rarest of rare gems getting to the bigs from that level.  Future Redbirds will have all the details, of course, but the thing that caught most people's eye from yesterday was that the Cards took one of Colby Rasmus's younger brothers.  Casey Rasmus plays at Liberty University as a catcher and, from reports, has a nice swing.  From older brother's comments, sounds like he'll sign, but we'll have to wait and see.

Yesterday, the Cards and Royals announced that the upcoming series between the two teams would be dedicated to tornado relief.  "Teams United For Joplin" is the theme and Josh from Pitchers Hit Eighth was there for the announcement.  Check out all the details over at that site.

Cards try to win the series tonight by sending Lance Lynn out to face J.A. Happ.  Obviously, Lynn's never faced the Astros before and looks to improve on his major league debut.  Perhaps the defense will be better for him in this one.  Here's Happ's line against the Redbirds:

PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS IBB HBP GDP
Albert Pujols 16 14 4 1 0 1 3 2 0 .286 .375 .571 .946 1 0 2
Yadier Molina 9 9 3 0 0 0 2 0 2 .333 .333 .333 .667 0 0 0
Colby Rasmus 8 5 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 .200 .500 .400 .900 0 0 0
Skip Schumaker 7 6 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 .167 .286 .333 .619 0 0 0
Ryan Theriot 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .167 .167 .167 .333 0 0 0
Lance Berkman 5 4 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 .250 .250 1.000 1.250 0 0 0
Tyler Greene 5 5 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 .200 .200 .800 1.000 0 0 0
Jon Jay 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250 .400 .250 .650 0 0 0
Allen Craig 4 4 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 .750 .750 1.500 2.250 0 0 0
Daniel Descalso 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .500 .000 .500 1 0 0
Kyle Lohse 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0
Jake Westbrook 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0
Chris Carpenter 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 0 0 0
Total 72 62 17 3 0 4 10 8 13 .274 .357 .516 .873 2 0 2
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 6/9/2011.

They've not seen him a lot, but they've been able to do fairly well against him.  We'll see if that will hold true tonight as well.

Remember, starting tomorrow the guest posters arrive, raising the quality level of this blog immensely.  Don't get too used to it--I'll be back a week from Monday!

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Heroes
Matt Holliday (5)
Matt Carpenter (4)
Rafael Furcal (4)
Carlos Beltran (3)
Jaime Garcia (3)
Jon Jay (3)
Kyle Lohse (3)
Lance Lynn (3)
Yadier Molina (3)
David Freese (2)
Adam Wainwright (2)
Lance Berkman (1)
Allen Craig (1)
Shane Robinson (1)
Fernando Salas (1)
Jake Westbrook (1)

2011 Top Hero: Lance Berkman (24)
2010 Top Heroes: Matt Holliday and Albert Pujols (24)
2009 Top Hero: Albert Pujols (28)
2008 Top Hero: Albert Pujols (25)

Goats
Matt Holliday (4)
Carlos Beltran (3)
David Freese (3)
Jaime Garcia (3)
Jason Motte (3)
Marc Rzepczynski (3)
Adam Wainwright (3)
Rafael Furcal (2)
Tyler Greene (2)
J.C. Romero (2)
Fernando Salas (2)
Mitchell Boggs (1)
Matt Carpenter (1)
Tony Cruz (1)
Daniel Descalso (1)
Jon Jay (1)
Erik Komatsu (1)
Kyle Lohse (1)
Victor Marte (1)
Eduardo Sanchez (1)
Jake Westbrook (1)

2011 Top Goat: Ryan Theriot (12)
2010 Top Goat: Brendan Ryan (14)
2009 Top Goats: Rick Ankiel and Todd Wellemeyer (13)
2008 Top Goat: Troy Glaus (13)

2012 Happy Flights
Happy Flights: 7
Happy Flight Opportunities: 12
Happy Flight %: 58%

Through 5/20

    Cardinal Nation Approval Ratings (March 2012)
    Adam Wainwright 91.9% (down 2.8%)
    Chris Carpenter 90.1% (up 3.2%)
    Lance Berkman 88.6%
    Tony La Russa 88.2% (up 17.4%)
    Yadier Molina 87.4% (up 3.7%)
    Matt Holliday 87.3% (down 3.8%)
    David Freese 85.5%
    John Mozeliak 85.4% (up 13.3%)
    Mike Shannon 85.3% (up 0.4%)
    Jose Oquendo 84.7%
    Derrick Goold 82.8% (down 5.0%)
    Mark McGwire 82.6% (up 20.1%)
    John Rooney 81.5% (down 2.8%)
    Mike Matheny 81.1%
    Bill DeWitt 79.8% (up 8.8%)
    United Cardinal Bloggers 78.9%
    Skip Schumaker 73.3% (up 9.2%)
    Jim Hayes 71.9% (down 4.2%)
    Jon Jay 71.1%
    B.J. Rains 69.5% (down 0.9%)
    Kyle Lohse 68.9% (up 13.8%)
    Dan McLaughlin 68.0%
    Joe Strauss 67.7% (up 10.2%)
    Ricky Horton 67.5% (down 1.6%)
    Al Hrabosky 66.4% (up 3.2%)
    Albert Pujols 54.9% (down 45.5%)
    Colby Rasmus 46.5% (down 35.3%)

    2011
    Dave Duncan 87.9% (up 0.9%)
    Matthew Leach 85.5%
    Pop Warner 76.7%
    Ryan Franklin 72.8% (up 3.1%)
    John Vuch 68.9%
    Jeff Luhnow 66.4%
    Dan Lozano 58.7%

    2009
    Rick Ankiel 83.9%
    Chris Duncan 69.1%


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