09/13 CUBS (Samardzija) @ St. Louis (Garcia) 7:10 CDT, CSNTV

[Sosa21MVP]

I did tune in for the 9th inning to see Marmol put the finishing touches on yet another nail in the Cardinals coffin. \:D/

[CUBZ99]

great outing for samardzija, as long as you look at runs allowed and nothing else.

 

Or unless you watched the game and noticed more movement on his pitches or enjoyed the way he got out of trouble in the first by striking out Rasmus on three straight off-speed pitches. What is frustrating about Shark is that he has all of the tools to be a good/great pitcher he just can't seem to put everything together. I agree that he e wasn't dominating by any means, but he showed enough to have hope that he might turn the corner some day.

 

there were 3 line outs by cardinal hitters and a deep fly out by rasmuswith the bases loaded, and he allowed 11 baserunners in 5.2 innings. that's not good.

 

 

His stuff looked good and he had more movement than I've ever seen from him. His off-speed pitch was breaking quite a bit at times. I'm not saying he was good, because he wasn't, but there were flashes.

[TruffleShuffle]

maybe losing 3 out of their last 4 to a terrible team like the cubs will wake the sleeping bear that is the 2010 st louis cardinals.