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Turning The TablesPosted on April 14, 2011 at 7:33 AM Filed Under: Arizona Diamondbacks | Heroes and Goats | Los Angeles Dodgers | St. Louis Cardinals It's a lot more fun to be on this side of a team scoring in every inning. Tuesday night, Arizona wasn't held scoreless until the seventh. Wednesday, the Cards got into the act, scoring in every inning until the six, with crooked numbers being the theme. Remember when the offense was a big topic of conversation? When it took three games for the Cards to score eight runs, the amount they scored in the second inning last night? Whether it's a resurgence in the offense or just a strong fondness for Chase Field and Arizona's pitching staff, either way it was a fun series for the most part. Tough to decide who the hero should be, as there was no shortage of offensive exploits. Skip Schumaker had a three-run home run. Colby Rasmus had a full night with three hits, three runs and two RBI. Albert Pujols continued to show that there's a reason not to worry about him, as he got two hits, including a double, scored three runs, and had two RBI. Even Gerald Laird, who was hitless on the season going into last night, had three hits! Talk about an offensive onslaught! All that said, I think I'll go with Lance Berkman again, as he delivered a series that likely will get him Player of the Week. Yet another home run, this time a grand slam, and another RBI tacked on for good measure. Berkman turned the game from a nice lead into a laugher, which was probably a good thing given who was on the mound. Jake Westbrook has to get the Goat tag from last night, as he was about the only person to struggle. Staked to a huge lead and you can't get out of the sixth? That's not going to be an acceptable outing. Westbrook lowered his ERA, but only because 1) it was really high to start with and 2) three of the five runs behind him were unearned, as Pujols and Theriot both made errors. Westbrook threw just over 100 pitches and recorded just one out in the sixth. While it's hard to judge a pitcher when he's pitching with the big lead, because they are often going to challenge hitters and allow a little more than they would otherwise, that's really not acceptable. If nothing else, you should throw fewer pitches with a lead like that because you are challenging guys. Put the ball in play and let your fielders make the outs. So far, Westbrook hasn't had a single good outing, being the weak spot on an otherwise solid rotation. I was encouraged when he threw two scoreless innings early on, but he's got to do more to keep a team in a ballgame, because they aren't going to score double digits every time he's out there. Matt Holliday and Ryan Theriot both hit by pitches and apparently the Cardinal starting staff didn't care for that, especially for Holliday's. BJ Rains commented on Twitter last night that a number of the pitchers were yelling at Ian Kennedy after Berkman's grand slam, in the vein of "that's what you get". The way Kennedy was throwing last night, I'm fairly sure he wasn't trying to hit people. It just doesn't sound like he had much of anything. I don't know what the players saw, whether they thought Kennedy was just frustrated or what, but that HBP loaded the bases and that's never something you want to do. One of those "had to be there" things, I guess. You can't talk about last night without mentioning Eduardo Sanchez. Sanchez made his first appearance in the majors, being activated when Brian Tallet was placed on the DL yesterday, and had a great debut, striking out five of the six batters he faced. Great start to what will hopefully be a great career. So how much did the team like Arizona? The team batting average went from .229 to .269 in the span of three games. I know it's early, but you still have to really rake to have a boost like that. Berkman went from questionable to powerful, and even Pujols seemed to get on track. You think we can just hang out there this weekend instead of heading to LA? Bernie Miklasz takes on Yadier Molina and his offensive approach. Yadi really is not looking good, but hopefully a day off yesterday can help get him on track. Or I could dog him on Twitter, like I did Laird yesterday before he went off for three hits. Cards head back to California to take on the Dodgers in another late-night tilt. (It's going to be a little strange next Tuesday when they actually play at 7:15!) If you didn't last night, I urge you to give a listen to the UCB Radio Hour, because we had Alex from Dodgerfan.net on talking about this upcoming series, as well as some social media stuff. Jaime Garcia takes the mound against the Dodgers tonight. Not surprisingly, since Garcia's only been in the league basically one year, they don't have a lot of experience with him.
Not much there to work with. The way the Dodger hitters have been going, though, Garcia's going to have to be in top form to be competitive tonight.
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 HeroesMatt 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) GoatsMatt 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 FlightsHappy 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% Looking for St. Louis Cardinals Tickets? TicketCity is your source for New York Yankees Tickets and World Series Tickets. Looking for Cardinals tickets? Stop by OnlineSeats. We’ve got Blues seats and even Rams games. Go to the coasts as well and catch a Celtics game or get Dodgers tickets. Referrals |
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