Hammel's on deck Meh, he's pitching great, he has hit the ball well in both ABs and he was at like 70 pitches. I'm not saying it's an easy call but I would consider him batting there if he comes up. (I realize that if I'm not 100% certain you warm someone up but yeah) Then again I'm a moron so what do I know. I at least know I'm not bring Richard in there.
Cardinals SOS - .499 Cubs SOS -.494 If you consider the "good" NL teams outside of STL and CHC to be the Nats, Mets, Pirates, Giants and Dodgers, the Cardinals have played 22 games against those 5 teams, the Cubs 20 games.
He just took the team lead ahead of Zobrist with 7, which is tied for 30th in baseball. DJ LaMahieu and Albert Pujols are tied for the MLB lead with 12 GIDP
Yeah Strasburg isn't impressive today. Makes me even more upset that we gave him 2 outs on the basepaths. We could have had him at 60 pitches after this inning.