Wow, Cardinal's nation must be ready to Ferguson some Umps....

middle of the plate fastball, belt high and he cant even get wood on the ball.:doh!:

We'll lose 3-0 instead of 3-1 now.

If you wanted to PH a righty there, Bourjos is a significantly better hitter than Cruz.

But we can't burn our 5th OF/defensive replacement. Have to use a guy who is a worse hitter than some of our pitchers.

How was that not a balk?

Of 394 ML hitters w/ 150 or more ABs in 2014, Tony Cruz was 378th in wRC+

That commercial was relatively bauce.

SOB Matheny!:mad:

Matheny stayed out his own way in the LA series but he really pissed them one up so far. No way did we put our best players on the field tonight.

So the Cards look better without Wainwright. Just admit he's hurt and bench his ass.

Bumgarner has been solid today. Much better post-season pitcher than Kershaw is.

xFIP today: 3.56

Kershaw's xFIP against us in Game 4: 1.50

Whats an xFIP?

Expected Fielding Independent pitching. It normalizes for both defense, batted ball luck, and home run/flyball percentage.

Effectively, it says that if you removed defense and luck from the equation, because a pitcher can't control those, that is what their ERA would be.

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Didn't allow a single run today.