Cardinals (May) vs Brewers (Patrick): 5/27/26, 12:40pm

[Bulldogboy]

11 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Ortiz looks like he's lost his job. I wish it was to Pratt and not Hamilton. 

Well he can't make an error a day. 6 so far already this year.

[CheezWizHed]

46 minutes ago, StearnsFTW said:

If LaRussa and Yost were managing there would be 8 beanballs today.

 

Fortunately it sounds like these 2 managers aren't children.

But how will Chris Carpenter explain this to his son???

[edfunderburk]

4 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

28-year-old right-hander Dustin May gets the start for the Cardinals. I wasn't aware of the life-threatening injury he suffered in 2024 from an errant bite of salad. I'm glad he's okay. On the baseball front, May is allowing a 49.1% hard-hit rate this season. His fastball averages 96.8 mph, but his breaking stuff hasn't been effective.

Milwaukee is still TBD. Maybe Patrick or Hall?

Fun Story: I was in a Starbucks (working with my laptop) when Dustin May got called up to the big leagues. His mom was a barista at this coffee shop & had just waited on me. She had commented on my Brewers hat or shirt on several occasions. I had been keeping up with her son (he was at Tulsa & then OKC) during his minor league career. I was the first person she told - he sent her a text & she screamed in excitement. Then she ran to my table to tell me the news! 

[markedman5]

23 minutes ago, Brian said:

Hamilton deserves a chance if Ortiz can't hit .200 

It’s been mostly a platoon for quite awhile…….righty on the mound Hamilton will get most of the starts.

[markedman5]

 

[jw5511986]

https://x.com/i/status/2059678457538257287

[markedman5]

 

[wallus]

This better not turn into a PCA like curse

[Brian]

23 minutes ago, wallus said:

This better not turn into a PCA like curse

PCA is taking a welding class on his days off. 

[Samurai Bucky]

42 minutes ago, Bulldogboy said:

Well he can't make an error a day. 6 so far already this year.

Remember, defense means nothing.  It is all about the offensive side of the ball.

[kestrel79]

Knowing the history of both these teams, something is coming. Either today or a later series something is coming.

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, jay87shot said:

 Sproat probably keeps going but is maybe looking like a good option as a 2/3 inning reliever if he can't get the big inning out of his system.

 

Unless we get much more fortunate with our starters' health than we have been I think Sproat continues to start. He might be OK out of the pen as long as you can guarantee he'll always start an inning. His coming in w/runners on base would concern me.

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, markedman5 said:

 

Here's what I find interesting: apparently we were stealing some of their signs this series, so it's some kind of horrible breach of baseball decorum. The previous series, it looked like Gasser was tipping his pitches, and it seemed obvious to me the runner(s) on 2B for LA were relaying info to the hitters with a helmet tap. Instead of making a big production out of it, Murphy mentioned in the postgame that 'Gasser was tipping his pitches' in a manner that suggests the problem was ours & that he needs to stop doing that.

In the same vein, maybe the Cards need to make their signs harder to steal?

[Team Canada]

10 minutes ago, kestrel79 said:

Knowing the history of both these teams, something is coming. Either today or a later series something is coming.

History means more to fans than a particular group of players. There really isn't much carryover between the past teams that really didn't like each other and these teams.

[Team Canada]

Just now, Jim French Stepstool said:

apparently we were stealing some of their signs this series, so it's some kind of horrible breach of baseball decorum

Source? 
Everyone does that. Everyone.

[gregmag]

Does anyone know more about the backstory of Uribe’s claims?  Did one of our pitchers hit somebody to get Marmol going on retaliation? Or do the Cardinals still care about the fragile bones and hurt feelings of Willson Contreras? (Edit: it can’t possibly just be about “sign stealing,” can it?)

[Outlander]

1 minute ago, gregmag said:

Does anyone know more about the backstory of Uribe’s claims?  Did one of our pictures hit somebody to get Marmol going on retaliation? Or do the Cardinals still care about the fragile bones and hurt feelings of Willson Contreras?

The teams have different interpreations of what it means when Marmol points at his ribs,

[wiguy94]

6 minutes ago, gregmag said:

Does anyone know more about the backstory of Uribe’s claims?  Did one of our pitchers hit somebody to get Marmol going on retaliation? Or do the Cardinals still care about the fragile bones and hurt feelings of Willson Contreras? (Edit: it can’t possibly just be about “sign stealing,” can it?)

Sounds like Uribe was telling the truth though maybe a bit of an exaggerated truth? Marmol did admit to pointing at his ribs so in that sense what he said was true but seems unlikely that Marmol was doing it every time Contreras and Yelich stepped to the plate. Considering Uribe was in the bullpen when this stuff happened, I imagine he got second hand information between the game on Monday and Tuesday and that second hand information might have been a bit exaggerated.

[jw5511986]

7 minutes ago, gregmag said:

Does anyone know more about the backstory of Uribe’s claims?  Did one of our pitchers hit somebody to get Marmol going on retaliation? Or do the Cardinals still care about the fragile bones and hurt feelings of Willson Contreras? (Edit: it can’t possibly just be about “sign stealing,” can it?)

Curt Hogg mentioned Marmol was staring into our dugout on Monday for full at bats and pointed to rib cage multiple times, our guys don't believe his explanation.

[Jim French Stepstool]

6 minutes ago, Team Canada said:

Source? 
Everyone does that. Everyone.

Like I said, the signaling from 2B. It was pretty blatant.

And yeah, everyone does it when given the opportunity. Never said otherwise. That's my point; it's not uncommon & I would suggest it's in the same general category of what the Brewers did this week, if in fact they were doing it, and one was made into an issue while the other wasn't.

[Brian]

If your watching game on TV, Mitchell looked like he just was doing a chip shot that went 421 feet yesterday.