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You would never had thought that a Cy Young pitcher would take his eighth loss from a team that has double the amount of losses than wins. This happened tuesday for now 17-8 Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright in St. Louis's 4-3 loss to Pittsburg. He failed to become the leagues first to 18 wins for second time in a row, this giving the Bucs only there third win in sixteen games. "I felt good from the the first pitch on," Wainwright said. "I had good stuff; I just didn't put a few guy away when I needed to."
The Cards had another early start to the ball game as Matt Holliday parks a pair sending St. Louis up 2-0 in the early stretch. The early lead have become something of a tradition as the Cardinals have scored first in there last five games winning all but one, and for the second game in a row the Cards have had a multi run blast in the first, today with Holliday, yesterday with Pujols. If the Cardinals can keep this up and there hitting and pitching comes together they wont lose too many ball games.
Wainwright looked good through five with six strikeouts, but the Pirates dug deep and found the last of the energy there team could muster up, and in the sixth inning the lead-off man reached and it hurts when this runner is leading his team in stolen bases because he swiped second off Molina like it was his job. With two outs in the same inning Wainwright left one of those no-no balls up in the zone and Pittsburg's
Jose Tabata who prompted sent it right into the corner for a standup rbi triple. After a single that plated Tabata, Pitt was right back in it. A two run single in the seventh sent Wainwright to the pine.
St. Louis's ace Adam Wainwright pitched seven full giving up four earned runs, and believe or not that is as many runs as he has given up in 30 innings in his previous starts. He is an incredible pitcher and regardless of if he wins this years Cy Young or not he is most definitely the best pitcher in NL at this level no matter which way you slice it. Its hard to win a ball game when your offense can only score two runs a game. Come on RASMUS get off the DL this team needs you.
St. Louis's hitting has been up if you ask me, but it is too spread out there hitting is productive, if they want it to be productive Tony Larussa will have to set the right lineup card and get his hitters to hit gap to gap and get in scoring position. Everyone in the majors can get hits, that is why they are where they are, but it is the situation where you need to get those hits, small and smart baseball.
However, on the Pittsburg side the bullpen no doubt shutdown the Cards entire lineup yesterday. Joel Hanrahan and Evan Meek pitched lights out on the bump. Meek converting only his second save of the season in eight opportunities.
The bad news in this game was having Philly and Cincy both getting losses the Cardinals could have taken a game up on the Central and the wildcard, but in the ninth inning with the bases juiced Jose Lopez was going to become the hero giving St. Louis the Lead in the Wildcard, but....... Pop out. On tuesday the door was open, but Evan Meek shut the opportunity down for the cards.
Now they will have to come back today to face Daniel McCutchen of the Pirates. If we flash back to July 31st of this year, St. Louis faced this same guy and guess what? They ate him up winning 11-1. If they can do half of what they did to him then, then St. Louis will come out on top.
With Albert Pujols just one HR away from the 400 mark, can today be the night for the Cards to take control of the Wildcard and get Albert to be the third youngest player to reach 400 bombs. Tune in to see.
Pirates Beat Wainwright, Cardinals
Thanks. Go Cards!!! MOTTE and RASMUS back next week. Hurry up Fellas
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