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I'll predict the lineup:
1. Carpenter, 3B
2. Piscotty, 1B
3. Holliday, LF
4. Heyward, CF
5. Peralta, SS
6. Grichuk, RF
7. Molina, C
8. Wong, 2B
9. Lackey
Healthy, that's a very good lineup. Today? Meh, they are really banged up. Half the lineup is hurting and Holliday and Grichuk likely can't play the entire game.
Also, I think the rotation is sort of similar to the 2011 version. You've got Lackey as Carpenter; Wacha and Lynn as Lohse and Jackson; and Garcia as...well, Garcia.
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A little mood media.
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They have to control the game. Score first and hand it bullpen and defensive replacements to shutout the late innings. A cool day in a pitching friendly home ballpark should be to the cards advantage.
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Lineup I posted above is confirmed.
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I really hope Molina's thumb is serviceable, seems stupid batting him ahead of Wong if he can't swing.
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alz wrote:
I really hope Molina's thumb is serviceable
That just reads awful doesn't it?
I hope Molina is recovered from his injury.
Better.
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alz wrote:
alz wrote:
I really hope Molina's thumb is serviceable
That just reads awful doesn't it?
I hope Molina is recovered from his injury.
Better.
Pd said catching was more troublesome then hitting for molina.
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Seems like lester is more hittable then what the cards have taken advsntage of.
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Such a huge miss in the fourth. That sucked.
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Here we go. Cubs got something cooking.
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Sit down, bitch.
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I just screamed in my apartment.
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so. about this Allen Craig trade.
thank you Boston. Lackey is pitching his ass off.
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Since Heyward's single in the fourth, Cardinals have struck out five times. This strategy of trying to attack Lester on the first pitch is ridiculously stupid. If he throws one over the plate, fine, but they've gotten way too aggressive.
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Let's see how long it takes Matheny to get the bullpen going.
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Lackey's balls were just a little bit bigger.
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Good grief, does this team have any strategy when it comes to batting? Lester threw about 30 pitches over the last three innings.
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Someone tell Joe Maddon to sit the fuck down.
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just hold. i dont like pulling lackey much.
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3 to go.
tbs.... i hate these announcers. every pitch that they get is masterful catching. framing, talking to the ump.
everyone the Cardinals get is just a blown call. and they just complained that maybe a dead red hater might have caught the corner.
so biased.
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I liked it because I'd rather pull a pitcher too early than too late. Maddon not going to Soler or Jackson there is baffling. Coghlan is a .116 hitter against lefties.
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Tommy Pham.
Tommy Pham.
Oh my. Oh my.
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Pham slamma jamma!
Wham, Bam, Thank you, Pham!