A team that typically pitches the ball well and catches it reliably has done neither with particular skill.
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So, here the Cardinals are at the crossroads of all crossroads.
Seth Russell threw for 337 yards and three touchdowns and No. 21 Baylor shrugged off a slow start to beat Rice 38-10 on Friday night.
The Cardinals trailed by a run when Jedd Gyorko singled off the fifth Giants pitcher, Sergio Romo, with one out in the ninth. This team hasn’t made a dramatic move all season.
Before Thursday’s game, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny told Garcia he was being removed from the rotation in favor of rookie flamethrower Alex Reyes.
“They all feel that way”. You know, we’ve just got to play better. The standings are the standings. They had a chance to wrap it up in front of their delirious fans at Wrigley Field, but Scooter Gennett’s tiebreaking two-run double in the seventh lifted Milwaukee to a 5-4 win. “We still have a lot of consecutive games coming up (the Giants will have just one more off day on September 28) and I don’t want to wear him down over these next few series, because they’re all big, too. He’ll be available for the game, he just won’t start”. That’s all it is.
By SCOTT ENGEL Fantasy Sports Network Heading into the second full week of the fantasy football season, it’s important to not overreact too much to the opening games. The other team with a championship pedigree has suffered miserably by comparison. This will be Suarez’s first career game against the Cardinals.
The Cardinals routinely trumpet their veteran leadership, but apparently it is only for internal consumption. “It was insane when I came here and players know who I am”. It can come across at times as a lack of urgency.
“I would look forward to that being the question over this one: ‘Is this a big series or a big game?’ That’s been brought up a few times”, he said. “I’ve seen crazier things happen, especially with this team”.
The loss dropped the Giants (79-69) five games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers (84-64) in the National League West and into a tie with the New York Mets (79-69) in the NL wild-card race. They have 15 games remaining and the stiffest schedule among the three.
“Just trying to lob it into the bucket”, deGrom said. “After I threw it, I was like, ‘OK, I have to go say something”.
But No.8 hitter Denard Span returned to his catalytic, leadoff-hitting ways when he drew a one-out walk in the third. Once again, the game sped up on him.
Pence hit a two-run homer, Cueto (16-5) had a go-ahead sacrifice fly and Angel Pagan followed with an RBI single.
Matheny mercifully relieved Weaver after Brandon Crawford drove in the sixth run of the inning, but the soft underbelly of the bullpen was exposed at that point. Cardinals starter Luke Weaver then walked the next two batters before a sacrifice fly scored the first run.
When the pitcher showed up at 5:10 p.m. – on time with the late report – he felt as though he was late.
In spring training, it seemed the Cardinals’ best asset was a starting rotation that had posted a 2.99 ERA the previous year, easily the best in baseball.
“It’s kind of the chicken and the egg”, Matheny said.
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“We got the same amount of hits [seven] that they got”. Bochy said. “I think any manager would take that every year”. “We both had opportunities”.
