I would think Carpenter is in the Dodgers head by now.:thumb:

Is Reynolds an idiot? Carpenter would be a better fit at second base IMO.

Matty ****ing Baseball

I can't help but to wonder, what would the 2013 World Series have looked like if Matt Carpenter was swinging the bat like this?

Ryu losing his release point at times now. Leaving balls up. This is the time to get him with Peralta/Adams/Molina up.

Peralta has has one good AB this series.:(

They keep pitching Carp in the same spot! They need to either pitch way in and back him up or pitch on the outside!


Nice ass catch by Hanley!

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For this year $83,928,572.

They need to keep grinding out good ABs.

Peralta has just been a travesty this series. It's not the K's, but his ABs just look totally helpless. He's not even fouling the ball off with any authority.

Just ****ing wow.

And think we can have Lackey next year for around $400,000.

Lackey has that Carpenter bulldog mentality out there on the mound. I miss Carp but its good to see someone in a Cardinal uniform with that same mentality.

He is an idiot. By every offensive metric, Carpenter was better offensively in 2013 than 2014. He's just conflating three hot games with the entire year.

Carpenter is a great player, but his bat profiles much better at second than third. At second, he's arguably the best 2B in baseball behind Cano. At third, he's still a very good player, but not elite.

That's why the Cardinals would be wise to continually gauge the trade market for Wong in a package deal that could net them a 3B.

GEEEZZZ :LOL:

Imagine what the royals could do with that money? You could resign Shields easily.

no, he's goign to be signed by the Dodgers! none of that resign with Royals stuff. WE are getting a few contracts off the books this year.

Yep, we need a power hitting 3B in this line up.

I'd be fine with Beltre at 3rd.

I hate watching Wong hit.

They certainly didn't that inning. Molina first pitch swinging and gets it a foot in front of the plate. Wong trying to hit the ball out of the stadium. Get the guys pitch count up or at least pick a good pitch to hit early in the count.

Matheny will start Kozma against Kershaw in Game 4. Offensively, he won't give much of anything, but Wong is worthless right now, too. I just hope he's smart enough to start Taveras over Grichuk, should there be a Game 5.

I don't really want to resign Shields to be honest. 33 years old with 8 straight 200 plus innings pitched. Hell of a player but you are asking for trouble even with a guy who keeps himself in good shape. I'll let the Cubs or Red Sox get him for that price.

AJ Ruth at the plate

The Dodgers are a ****ing joke. I'd be ashamed to cheer for that franchise. I wish them nothing but ill will. I hate the cardinals, too....But at least they do everything right as an organization. Why didn't you bump that Kershaw thread the other night? **** the Dodgers. Can't wait to see their $400M payroll next year. What a joke.

He should go to the Cubs.

AJ ****ing Ellis

Thank you. Take. The. Out.

Mozeliak raped that trade. Salary dump with a declining player who profiles better in the AL along with a 5th starter/long relief for a solid #2/3 pitcher with postseason experience who only makes 500k. Brilliant move said it on trade deadline day and still say it today.

It's unusual that a team has AJ Pierzynski and John Lackey and they are only the 5th and 6th biggest assholes in the series.

This ump is just bad.

LMAO crazy but its true.

The Dodgers have put together a serious collection of starfish.

The question rests entirely around Craig's foot. The Cardinals' team doctors have been incompetent across regimes. If they ****ed up the original treatment plan for his Lis Franc and he gets it sorted out this offseason, the Red Sox got a guy who is going to hit fifth for them for 4-5 years and be one of the better hitters in baseball for a fair price.

If Craig's foot is truly ****ed and he experiences other age-related decline, then it is a complete heist for dumping the salary alone.

Ryu has thrown like 12 pitches the last two innings. Our lack of discipline just built the damned bridge for him to go seven with ease.

Still even if Craig's foot is healed, you have a glut of outfielders the majority of which are on the cheap. Just a numbers and business move that needed to be made.

Yeah, he got up there. In the 4th i was worried he would be gone by the 6th.

That is correct. However, Matt Adams is a pretty fungible 1B whose real value in his cost control.

about damned time Puig

Jesus Grichuk. Hit .100 if you want to, but how can you butcher the **** out of a ball like that?

That was awful.

...was that fair?

This umpire is ****ing ass

CLIMB THINE LADDER.

Why not start Taveras tomorrow? He can't look any worse than Grichek has since his 1st AB. He hit LH pitchers at every level. He got the hit off a lefty in the series.

**** YES, JOHNATHAN.

Rosaforte just jinxing the **** out Lackey there.

And Grichuk misplays the dog shit out of another ball. Get him out of the game and put Bourjos in center.

There we go Hanley!

6 innings, 1 run against this line up is impressive. $86 million in payroll in just 4 hitters. None of them are pulling a Hamilton this year either.

Lackey is money in the post season.

That was a ball outside and up at his shoulders. Good piece of hitting.

Kolten Wong and Grichuk are playing themselves firmly into my "hate" list. That said, Grichuk playing is on Matheny. People go on and on about the guy, but he's not half the hitter Taveras is, and he's not close to the defender Bourjos is. This team is better with Bourjos in center and Jay in right or Jay in center and Taveras in right.

Peralta turned into Pete Kozma at the stroke of October.

Brian Wilson. As if the Dodgers needed more douchebags.

ohhh yeah put Wilson in!:thumb:

Its not just his lack of success. It's the way he looks at the plate. He has not even looked comfortable up there. He has killed so many rallies. Just like in the 3rd in this game.

Jesus, Matt. Stay in and get on base there. That was a cream puff at your shoulder.

BTW, I read that the Cardinals have told Adams to not bunt to the left side no matter how they shift.

Typical Cardinal offense against this ****ing idiot. Hasn't pitched in almost a month, has command problems early, but they still manage to **** around and fumble about enough to let him get through six on less than a hundred pitches.

Just awful

Yellow w/ some orange in Webster Groves, a little SW of the stadium.

Looks like thats it for Ryu. Pitched a great game after not having pitched for 5 weeks.

Lackey has pitched circles around Ryu. The Dodgers have a far better lineup.

Big line of green and yellow in the Westplex.

Can we please just get this two-bit mother****er out? Thank you.

JFC did they really get him out?

That's the single best start from a Cardinals pitcher since Wacha's Game 2 in the LCS last year.

Yep 6 innings of 1 run ball after 3 weeks off.:thumb:

Thank God. Van Slyke is one of those aforementioned slapdicks who scared the piss out of me.

Yep that's what Wainwright should be doing.

our bullpen is terrible

Yeah Puig had struck out 7 times in a row. He is going to get a hit eventually. That pitch to Hanley shouldn't have even been swung at.

his performance moves him up in the pitching pecking order if by some miracle we get by the Dodgers.

Yes! Nice swing, Yadi.

Molina just smoked one off the Missouri boy.

Can't believe they aren't suspending this.

Lynn was pretty damned good, too. IMO, it reinforces his position in the order.

Jon Jay: hitting .375 against LHP, facing a bad LHP, hitting .400 for the series, and Matheny bunts him to have Wong face a LHP in a must-score situation.

My ****ing god.


HOLY ****ING CHRIST, SOMEONE SIG MY BITCHASS THE MOTHER**** UP!!!!

ALOHA MOTHER****ERS!!

our bullpen strikes again. Said it before the series started our bullpen was beyond ass.

Hamas owes Wong an apology.

****. Yes.

Chicks dig the Wong ball

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Hamas, what were you saying about Wong?:Poke:

DO NOT BRING IN PAT NESHEK. DO NOT ****ING DO IT.

Joe Buck trying his hardest to hide his homerism even though Reynolds should basically just put on a Dodgers jersey.