Game Thread (4/14/2022): Cardinals (Wainwright) at Brewers (Woodruff) - 4:14 PM CDT

[owbc]

Oh man, Pujols had stolen something like 15 bases in a row. He likes to steal one or two per year and hasn't been caught since 2015. 

[Underachiever]

Watching Pujols, it’s nice to learn I might be as fast as a pro baseball player. 

[owbc]

Omar!

[BruisedCrew]

The Cardinals are probably going to protest that the sun went behind a cloud while Narvaez was hitting making that HR possible. 

[willie key]

That seems like a relatively sparse crowd for opening day

 

from that picture

[HarryDoyle]

That was fortunate.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Come on. Call a strike.

[BruisedCrew]

Brutal missed call keeps Goldschmidt alive. 
 

Try comparing that pitch to the two he called Yelich and Cain out on. 

[HarryDoyle]

ROBO UMPS PLEASE!!!!

[HarryDoyle]

1 minute ago, BruisedCrew said:

Brutal missed call keeps Goldschmidt alive. 

Calls.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Dear every pitcher in MLB:

Use PitchCom.

Signed, everybody else

[HarryDoyle]

This bonehead umpire just cost Woodruff an innings worth of pitches.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Hahaha, sure was nice of the Cardinals to give the Brewers a free out with that bunt.

I love that kind of baseball "strategy" in 2022.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Also, I had to go pick up food and when I came back to turn on the TV, one of the first lines I heard was "and Pujols was caught stealing third."

[BruisedCrew]

6 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

Calls.

I posted after the first one.

That was ridiculous. I guess you have to be 40 years old to get a call. 

[BruisedCrew]

3 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Hahaha, sure was nice of the Cardinals to give the Brewers a free out with that bunt.

I love that kind of baseball "strategy" in 2022.

That was no free out with Edman running. 
 

A fast runner bunting for a hit is not the same as a pure sacrifice. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Dude, Yelich, you gotta start putting three more feet on those balls if you're going to hit them to dead center.

[owbc]

Ooooh that was a vintage Yelich hit. 

[SeaBass]

I'm starting to feel really hopeful about Yelich. Don't let me down dude.

[homer]

Seeing Yeli hit a laser beam double on 0-2 makes me all tingly

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just now, BruisedCrew said:

That was no free out with Edman running. 

A fast runner bunting for a hit is not the same as a pure sacrifice. 

Oh, I'm aware, but it was half hit attempt, half sacrifice. There was little reason to go for one base in that situation via a bunt other than you're willing to take the out in trade for moving the runners. And doing that in the third inning is just a bad idea.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Damn. So close.

[owbc]

It seems like the light coming through the windows may be causing the Cardinals to play small ball. 

[homer]

 

[HarryDoyle]

Is run support for Woodruff allowed?