Yadi is 2 for the series so far and Gio hadn't thrown one in the same zip code as the strike zone the whole inning. Take one strike, then unleash the hounds.

And he is going to spend the winter in St. Louis working out with Carpenter. If he could get an attitude like Carp to go with that natural talent... :thumb:

Matheny saving Matt Carpenter for later innings I guess.

Skip really frustrates the piss out of me.

The entire bench is AAA quality - Skip, Chambers, Robinson, Cruz, Carpenter

Only guy that can do anything is Carp.

2 outs runner on first. Better to save him for a better leverage situation. Still got 3 more innings.

and win or lose I'm glad they just didnt lie down and wimp out for the rest of the 7 innings left in the game.

They should have gotten at least two more in the 5th. Middle of the lineup was complete shit. Let Gio completely off the hook.

Woulda should coulda etc. Should have won Game 1 and Game 4.

Jays fan. I don't know much about what the Royals did or didn't do with him (or what it was that caused him to fall all the way to the 21st round), but Rosenthal has great stuff.

rubs hands together...........Jackson coming in

Boggs in the 7th
Matheny finally got the memo that Zep and Salas aren't any good.

I dont know why he fell. He's 2 years older than my son. I had a competitive team in Lees Summit that was ranked in the top 5 in the state and I dont remember that guy.

if you can hit 100 mph even if you are wild, it would seem you would go before the 20th+ round.

Signed for only $65,000. Based on that, it looks like the Cardinals were really the only MLB team that knew about him (or at least the only one that cared enough to commit anything to him).

The heart of our order has been absolutely terrible. Looking at belt high meatballs and flailing away at pitches they can't hit. Top of the order will come up in the next couple innings so one more chance.

Of the four runs the Cards scored tonight so far, only one has come on a base hit, and that was on Holliday's seeing-eye double while reerun fumbled around in left field and let Beltran score. The other three runs came on a wild pitch, walk and groundout. It's tough to come back from a 6-run deficit when you don't hit the ball in those situations.