Ozuna really got hosed by the home plate ump on his 8th AB.

The strike zone was inconsistent. Gant got hosed on a couple of calls on pitches down in the strike zone early in the game, and then in the next inning he got a call on a pitch that wasn't as good as either pitch that was called a ball earlier. 

artie_fufkin wrote:

The strike zone was inconsistent. Gant got hosed on a couple of calls on pitches down in the strike zone early in the game, and then in the next inning he got a call on a pitch that wasn't as good as either pitch that was called a ball earlier. 

Thanks for the update.  As is probably obvious, I only tuned in after 5 and missed a lot along the way after that.

artie_fufkin wrote:

Mags wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

The strike zone was inconsistent. Gant got hosed on a couple of calls on pitches down in the strike zone early in the game, and then in the next inning he got a call on a pitch that wasn't as good as either pitch that was called a ball earlier. 

Thanks for the update.  As is probably obvious, I only tuned in after 5 and missed a lot along the way after that.

Gant was good. His changeup had movement and he was able to keep his fastball out of the middle of the plate. Fulmer was a bit better early He (Fulmer) was perfect through either four or five innings. The Cardinals are reverting to some of the tendencies they had under Matheny - striking out too much, sloppy defense, poor baserunning and inconsistent pitching from the bullpen.

And losing

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Gant was good. His changeup had movement and he was able to keep his fastball out of the middle of the plate. Fulmer was a bit better early He (Fulmer) was perfect through either four or five innings. The Cardinals are reverting to some of the tendencies they had under Matheny - striking out too much, sloppy defense, poor baserunning and inconsistent pitching from the bullpen.

And losing

And that too, yes. I didn't expect them to win every series until the end of the season. But I did expect them to beat teams that are playing out the schedule like Cincinnati and Detroit.
They have 19 games left. Thirteen are at home. On the downside, 16 are against teams with a record of .500 or better, and nine are against teams that are going to qualify for the post-season, unless something strange happens. 
This weekend's 4-game series with the Dodgers will be telling. I think they need to go 13-6 to get into that wild card game, which they can win. There's no starting pitcher from Milwaukee that scares me. 

I don't think they need that many wins.  The only teams with a chance to catch them are the teams in the West, and those teams have games left against each other.  If one of them gets on a run, that team will win the division, and will do so at the expense of the other two teams.  

90 wins should be the target.  That requires them to go 11-8 the rest of the way.  Someone in the West may finish with more than 90 wins, but it's unlikely that 2 teams from that division can do it.

Good point about the morass in the West. I think I heard the Phillies and the Braves still have to play two series against each other, which leads me to believe only one of them will make the playoffs. 
I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, but I wonder who starts that WC game? Likely, they'll still be needing to win games to make it, but if they were able to set a rotation, who would you go with if you had one game to win? A month ago, Mikolas was an easy call, but he seems to be coming in on fumes here. I then would have said Flats, but you're more likely to get him for 5 innings because that's when his 100 pitchers are up. And then you're asking a sketchy bullpen to get 12 outs. Gant has been pitching well, but he's also prone to piling up a pitch count. Same with Gomber. 
 

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I dont think the brewers are going anywhere.  They had the kind of additions i feel like can push and pull them through.  So far there additions have been playing well i believe.  Imo they could be a 2011 type suprise.

APIAD wrote:

Small sample size but matt holliday has a .1040 ops and 2hrs

And he made Jose Martinez look like Roberto Clemente on a routine fly ball to left yesterday.