Yikes that's Biloxi baseball for you in the year 2024. They open the bottom of the 9th going single, double, single, triple to tie the game 4-4 with no outs. Murray, Warren, and Sparks then each strikeout with the winning run 90ft from home.
I'm going to need someone else's opinion but it looked like to me that DL Hall re-injured himself on one of his last 2 pitches in the first inning. Looked awkward and was cursing when walking back to the dugout.
Cardinals are playing some good baseball right now unfortunately. 2 innings away from being 7-2 since their series in Milwaukee and 2 innings away from sweeping the Orioles who haven't been swept in 2 years. Maybe they aren't quite dead yet.
Watching Craig Yoho immediately following Costello really emphasizes how nasty Yoho is. They have pretty similar pitch mixes and Yoho just gets so much nastier movement on his stuff. I really don't understand why this guy is still in A+ at this point.
Yerlin Rodriguez unfortunately continues to ride the struggle bus. It's 20 grade command with him these days. 4 BB in 1.1 IP today. He's up to 18 BB in 14 IP on the year.
I also was expecting Koenig to go 2 innings to give Blalock an extended time to warm up like he's used to doing. I don't think they option Koenig. Murphy thinks of Koenig as a middle reliever not a shuttle guy (which is fine because he's earned that role). Maybe they DFA White? Ross is likely going on the IL so they could just call up Herget or Junk instead. Then have Myers come up the next time Ross's spot is up in the order.
They should have just used Blalock instead of burning the entire bullpen. Maybe we lose, but the pen stays fresh. Now we lose and our pen is absolutely gassed for the rest of the series. Not sure what the point of calling up Blalock was if we weren't going to use him in a situation where it was super common sense to use him.