Archives for June 2021

The ball left Eduardo Escobar’s bat at 98.7 miles per hour.  It would be the third hardest hit ball by the Arizona Diamondbacks on the evening, and it would provide the evening’s first turning point. Everything is so magnified in a one-run game.  In this one, Cardinal starter Carlos Martinez walked the first batter of […]

The play didn’t make any of the highlight packages – but that’s not surprising.  Bunts rarely do.  But, in a contest befitting the teams with the two worst June records in the National League, it would be a garden variety bunt that would prove to be the play of the game. It was the seventh […]

I’m pretty sure I’ve never ever seen this before. With age, of course, comes occasional struggles with memory.  And, of course, it’s not the kind of thing that gets marked in a scorecard or a database, so it’s not something that can be checked.  I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that this […]

The first three batters that he faced in the game (and four of the first five) all reached base.  Given that as a starting point, the fact that Cardinal starting pitcher Carlos Martinez only allowed two first inning runs was something of a victory.  It could have been much worse. Now it was the top […]

The rain out last Saturday night in Atlanta gave Adam Wainwright the opportunity to dominate the first game of the Sunday seven-inning doubleheader (which I’m still on record as disliking).  Waino was brilliant that afternoon against the Braves, tossing a complete game, 9-1 victory. Not only would that be the only Cardinal win in their […]

From the moment the last out was recorded on June 13, and the Cub’s sweep of the Cards was secured, much has been written about the upcoming schedule.  After being pushed around by many of baseball’s better teams, St Louis was to embark on a 20-game tour of some of baseball’s struggling teams.   It was […]