It wasn’t a great start. Leading the league in walking batters, Dakota Hudson – coming off a promising start against the Cubs – began the second game of the Cincinnati series by walking the first batter he faced. Things would go mostly downhill from there. Hudson would end up on the losing end of a […]
Archives for August 2022
He Hits What He Swings At
They Should Have Everyone’s Attention By Now
The home run was a real kidney punch. St Louis held a two-run lead and was 7 outs away from winning the series against the red-hot Atlanta Braves. With Braves on the corners and two-outs in the seventh – and with starter Adam Wainwright at 100 pitches – manager Oliver Marmol turned the game and […]
Just the Perfect Approach
Sometimes You Make Your Own Luck
It’s Friday night in Arizona. Riding a four-game winning streak, the Cards are in a tight 1-0 contest with the Diamondbacks. In the seventh inning, a pair of singles by Yadier Molina and Dylan Carlson, sandwiched around a walk to Lars Nootbaar, load the bases. A foul out from Tyler O’Neill puts reliever Kevin Ginkel […]
Fair Play
Of all of the teams on the Cardinals’ regular-season schedule, they waited the longest to play the Colorado Rockies. The 2022 Championship Season was 108 games past when these two teams collided for the first time Tuesday, August 9 in the mile-high city of Denver, and the Rockies welcomed the St Louis team – that […]