SHILDTY TALKIN’ BASEBALL WEDNESDAY: “It’s a really good way of looking at this trip,” said manager Mike Shildt. “Start with the positives: Three quality starts in a row. We won the first game of the series, and I would have taken our chances in the next two games if I knew we were only going to give up four runs.”

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Talkin’ Baseball 4/21/21

HOUSEKEEPING: Yadi takes a rare day off and Andrew Kizner caught Wednesday.”Kizner has been outstanding both offensively and defensively. A great day!” said Bally Sport’s Jim Edmonds.

WASHINGON DC –Wednesday’s series finale was a very chilly, windy pitcher’s dual. The Nationals beat us 1-0 and took the series.

Hurt our Cards in this game:

FIRST INNING: Bases loaded one out and we failed to score. It was one of our best opportunities to score against Max Sherzer (don’t get many like that). This was not good. 

SECOND INNING: WSH Avila hit one of two doubles. OF relays didn’t stop run from scoring. We probably could have caught that run w/a good throw. Poor basic fundamentals. Not good again. Sorry guys, but you know. . .

PITCHING:

Carlos Martinez Start: IP:6.0 PIT/STRIKES: 91/62 H:4  R:1  ER:1 BB: 1 SO: 3 HR: 0 ERA: 6.00

Carlos didn’t experience that “one bad-luck inning” that has haunted him lately. Monday Martinez brought his nasty stuff to this contest. Hit 96 mph. He was impressive for seven strong innings. Sinker was really good. Named the BJC Differencemaker. Nice work, “Tsunami!” 

OFFENSE:

SECOND INNING: Carlos Martinez rips a double. CLICK2CATCH

Our offense struggled for timely hitting the entire game. Ks:  13  LOBs: 5

STL Dugout Delima: “How do we get Max Sherzer out of this game?” Increase his pitch count.

Whew! WSH Bullpen took over in the 7th inning. We thought we finally had that window to get one run. The problem was that the WSH ‘pen did their job and held the score. Did not score on them either.

DEFENSE:

THIRD INNING: Justin Williams and jumping grab. CLICK2CATCH

Let’s go Cards! Keep your head up. Positive thinking works!

Up next: Thursday Off-Day & we come back to Baseball Heaven for a seven-game homestand starts with CIN/3!

NEWS & NOTES

UTILITY PLAYER GOLD GLOVE: Jimmy “The Cat” said Shildty, etc. wondered if this would work. Tommy would ever be possible. He’s been great. 

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YADIER MOLINA: Our Yadi leads MLB  w/innings caught – 136!

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