Cards have hit the ball hard all game. They just have hit it right at people. It sucks but thats baseball.

Matheny ****s the team by chasing a win for Kelly again. No excuse for having Kelly face the middle of that lineup for a third time today. None.

He gets it now...

Hopefully Maness can get the dp

If the dumb mother****er would have had Choate ready, he could have pitched to Alvarez, who has horrific platoon splits. Instead, the bases are loaded and one more bullshit Pirate flare blows it open.

Maness in for another one of his patented DP ground balls

Matheny should be fired right now.

Damn gotta get the ball down farther then that Seth

I told you Matheny was going to cost this team a playoff series and you just wouldn't listen.

Kelly was pitching great. He was only at 80 pitches or so. There was no clear indication to pull him after a hit batter.

I might have hit that one out.

That may be but it wasnt the 6th inning today.;)

You don't let him start that inning period. He's a marginal pitcher his third time through the lineup and there are several better pitchers in the bullpen. Then, when we need a strikeout he brings in a contact pitcher when DPs are mostly luck depending on where the ball is hit.

He's a goddamned idiot and it just cost this team a run it can't afford to give up.

More hard hit balls, more outs. This is one of the most infuriating games ever.

You have to figure those hard hit balls are going to fall soon. Just the law of averages should do it.

I like Martinez over Axford. you think your buddy Matheny is trying to protect Martinez from hearing his name chanted and melt down?