SUNDAY @ PIT – MATT CARPENTER HR #22!
NUMBERS TELL THE STORY FIRST —
BB=BASES ON BALL & BABY BIRD/ROOKIE, BUT YOU KNEW THAT DIDN’T YOU?
SUN MLB.COM BOX SCORE SUN MLB.COM WRAP
9/24/17 CARDINALS FINAL R H E
CARDS 1 4 1
PIRATES 4 8 0
WP: PIT TALLION 8-7
LP: STL OH 1-6
SV: RIVERO 16
STL TEAM LOB: 8 PIT: 7 STL RUNNERS LEFT IN SCORING POSITION, 2-OUT: PHAM 3, DEJONG STL TEAM RISP: 0-FOR-6
STL KD 9 TIMES BB 5 STL PITCHING KD 8 PIT (GANT-0) TEAM BB 2 (GANT-2)
HOUSEKEEPING: 1) YADI OUT TO SAVE FOR HOMESTAND. BB CARSON KELLY BEHIND THE PLATE
ERROR? GYORKO 10, FIELDING
1 RBI FRIDAY: CARPENTER (68)
6 STL HURLERS FRIDAY: STARTER STL RHP JOHN GANT PITCHED 3 INNINGS/RHP BOWMAN 4TH/RHP OH 5TH/LHP CECIL 6TH/RHP BREBBIA 7TH/LHP LYONS 8TH/PIT USED 6 PITCHERS
SECOND INNING – LOSE BALL BUT GET OUT!
THIRD INNING – CARP2 BELTS SOLO SHOT FOR EARLY LEAD
THIRD INNING – CARDS CATCH MCCUTCHIN IN RUNDOWN
EIGHTH INNING – LHP LYONS KS SIDE
TALKIN’ POSTSEASON NUMBERS FIRST: Sunday’s loss leaves us with little chance to make a charge up the division standings over the season’s last week, even with four remaining matchups against the Cubs. St. Louis trails Chicago by six games and would be eliminated from the NL Central race with one loss in the upcoming head-to-head series. The Brewers sit a half-game ahead of the Cardinals, while the Rockies, who currently hold the second Wild Card spot, have a 2 1/2-game advantage over St. Louis. BELIEVE – THERE’S TIME.
PITTSBURGH — “Relentless,” that’s how Matheny described our club recently. Play that kind of baseball again, guys. You have it in you! We’re not done! Beat Chicago four games.
“We just have to keep playing until mathematically you’re out of it. That’s how you have to look at it,” Cardinals outfielder Tommy Pham said. “It’s a very tough situation. We need some luck.”
We just had our last road trip of the season — nine games. Lost first three in Chicago (that series still hurts), we swept CIN, and then we took Game One Friday of the PIT series in ninth-inning comeback style. Exhilarating! We felt like we could do anything and we were ready for these Buccos! The problem was: that they were ready for us too. They wanted to spoil our chances — at anything. 🙁
“It’s fun, at this point, to play spoiler. We’re still playing for pride. We’re all professionals,” Pirates starter Jameson Taillon said. “We want to go out there and put our best on the line. It’s fun playing against a team that’s playing for something. It kind of raises the stakes a little bit.”
Sunday was a Bullpen game and the Bucs’ ‘pen outplayed ours. They shut down our offense (we got only four hits and Kd nine times).
We. . . .allowed homers. RHP Oh (2-run in 5th) & LHP Cecil (solo shot in 6th ). That’s all they needed. Five gift walks didn’t come around to score. That hurt bad. Rats!
RHP John Gant made his first start for our Cards this season. “We’re just gonna see how long he can go,” is what Manager Mike said. He did a pretty good job – he had a short leash (three innings). He allowed just three hits — no homers. Whew!
RHP JOHN GANT 3 IP/48 PITCHES, 30 FOR STRIKES, 3H, 1R, 1ER, 0K, 2BB, 0HR. CLICK OUT BOX SCORE LINK ABOVE FOR MORE PITCHER NUMBERS
Woo hoo! Matt Carpenter earned $30,000 for Texas hurricane victims and hit another home run (his 22nd). Carp2 seems to be finding his swing again. no jinx! That’s a five-game hitting streak! You know what we say, “When Carp2 hits, we win.” “Well, we’re waiting!” Click out Ted Knight in Caddyshack! Remember the FUN!
Our pinch hitters lead baseball with a .311 average. Nice!
We have seven games left of this season. All at Busch.
Get in a roll! Concentrate, keep your confidence level up and just play good baseball. That’s really all we can do.
Until we’re mathematically out. . .we’re in.
“Nothing different. We go out to win every game every day. You’re never going to get me to buy anything different. That would be a slap in the face to these guys to say they have something more than what they’ve already shown. It’s not going to happen. We go out [and] play the game we’ve got every single day. Yeah, we understand the urgency and we understand all the numbers, just don’t spend too much time on them because they are irrelevant to what we have to do, which is go play good baseball. That’s it. Keep it simple, all the way through. Until they take the ball from us, that’s what we’re going to keep doing” —Manager Mike, on the urgency with which the Cardinals will approach their upcoming homestand.
TALKIN’ BASEBALL TRIVIA!
BOB GIBSON AKA GIBBY!
BUSCH STADIUM STATUE OF THE GREAT BOB GIBSON!
What an amazing athlete was Bob Gibson (even on the Harlem Globetrotters in ’57 & ’58!)
1965 – Gibson broke a team record when he K over 250 batters (270)
1968 – Gibson had 13 shutouts, 28 complete games and set a season ERA record of 1.12 that still stands today (pitchers have come close but no one has topped it). Can you believe that stuff? Whoa!
One of the things Gibson was known to do was sending “message” or throwback pitches to batters who might have been crowding the plate diving to get out of the way.
Cooperstown Bound – Number 45 was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. First Ballot! Would you tell him no? lol
CLICK OUT THIS BOB GIBSON HIGHLIGHT VIDEO. GET TO KNOW GIBBY. WOW!
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ROAD TRIP/9: 4-5. HOMESTAND/7
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