Adams to the DL. Huh?

After an exam by team physicians Thursday revealed a strain where the Cardinals and rookie Matt Adams hoped there would only be irritation, the club elected to place Adams on the 15-day disabled list Friday.

Adams spot on the DL is backdated to Monday, when he first felt what was described as a tightness or soreness in his right oblique.

Adams has been diagnosed with a slight tear in the oblique.

Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said the first time he went on the disabled list as a player was with the same injury. He suggested Adams and the team will need to show patience.

"The harder you push that injury, the longer you're going to be sitting," Matheny said.

During his time in Class AA Springfield, Adams had an oblique strain cause him to miss three weeks of the 2011 season.

"I was having a hard time getting anyone to tell me (Adams) would play this weekend," Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said.

"So, you're looking at Monday, and then does he need a couple of days, because he needs to get his swing back? I don't think it will be an extended (amount of time)."

To take Adams place on the 25-man roster, the Cardinals are promoting utility infielder Jermaine Curtis. He will also be added to the 40-man roster today.

La Russa calls that "damage" too.

Can we have Sanchez back in the game please?

1-hit shutout for Jordan Zimmermann.

Jermaine Curtis?  Who the hell is that?

Did Wigginton have to ask Maloney for directions to second base?

forsberg_us wrote:

Boggs is a mess. 

Right now, he's a turd at the bottom of a trash pile in a landfill in a nuclear waste area.
 

I really didn't think the Cardinals would get off to this kind of start. Playing 15 of your first 21 on the road at Arizona, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington is a good way to start off under .500.