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6/19 Gamecrap
Warming up with Angels/Indians. Pujols hit a weak two-run single to beat the shift to break up a 1-1 tie in the 10th. Nick Swisher comes up in the bottom of the inning and cranks a two-out grand slam.
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Holliday hits too many grounders.
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This is a shitty pitcher.
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Good deal of swinging out of the zone.
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The mother of all fluke hoe runs.
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This can't be for real. Buchanan has one quality start all season long, and he's just knifing right through the Cardinals.
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Quality at-bats tonight.
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Re: 6/19 Gamecrap
Once again, the Cardinals are shut down by a pitcher I'd never heard of until the day of the game.
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Re: 6/19 Gamecrap
tkihshbt wrote:
Holliday hits too many grounders.
I believe ive heard that hits the ball the hardest or one of the hardest in the league. Maybe he should aim toward the parking lot instead of the infield dirt. Just a thought.
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Once again, the Cardinals are shut down by a pitcher I'd never heard of until the day of the game.
How would you like to be a pitcher with this offense supporting you.
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Once again, the Cardinals are shut down by a pitcher I'd never heard of until the day of the game.
How would you like to be a pitcher with this offense supporting you.
I did. For three years in high school.
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From Bernie's column today:
* Allen Craig, Jhonny Peralta, Matt Adams and Yadier Molina have a combined 214 at-bats this season with a runner on second base. They have also combined to get the runner home only 22 times. Yes ... 22 of 214 ... that's roughly 10 percent. Last season (including Peralta's year in Detroit) those same four hitters got the runner home from second base 26.1 percent of the time.
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More information:
More to the point: the team remains addicted to video study. It was something that Mark McGwire complained about during his time here as an effective batting coach. It's all video, video, video. So when the STL hitters see a guy like Buchanan, and he pitches differently than they've seen on the video ... then they have no idea what to do.
* In 2012, McGwire's final season as the lead hitting instructor, the Cardinals had a .421 slugging percentage. In 2013, with John Mabry in his first season as the lead batting coach, the SLG dropped to .401. This year it's down to .365 entering the weekend. That's a 56-point drop in less than two seasons. And Cardinals' people get offended when I question the team's hitting approach? Gee, I wonder why anyone would question that?But I want to reiterate something: These hitters are better than they've shown in 2014. It's easy to blame Mabry for everything. It's a copout. The players are responsible for taking control of their own at-bats and they are free to adjust. So I don't forget that. But it's perfectly fair and reasonable to question the overall direction of this offense, too. The Cardinals should be a helluva lot better than their No. 27 ranking in runs per game. And their No. 28 ranking in slugging. And when you're doing so poorly in two essential areas — you have to own the numbers. You can't be sensitive to scrutiny of fact-based criticism.
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