The St. Louis Cardinals SQUANDER Golden Opportunity in Wild Card Race

The St. Louis Cardinals SQUANDER Golden Opportunity in Wild Card Race

pain. That is the word that comes to mind as the Cardinals figure out a way to lose another series to the Colorado Rockies. Get your barf bags ready. It’s time for Locked on Cardinals. You are Locked on Cardinals, your daily St. Louis Cardinals podcast part of the locked on podcast network your team every day. Hey there Cardinal fans. I’m JD Hafford and I am your host for Locked on Cardinals part of the locked on podcast network covering your team every day. Follow me on X JD Sports Radio the podcast at l_cardinal onx. We’re on YouTube. If you want the visual version of this show that’s cool too. You can see how disgusted I am as the faces I make describing what we just saw from the St. Louis Cardinals in this series. Uh we’re on Tik Tok. We’re on Instagram. You can catch me there as well at Lockton Cardinals. This is a show serving Cardinal Nation and trying to give the best fans in baseball all of the info about the birds on the bat. Today’s episode brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app. Create an account. Use code locked on MLOB for $20 off your first purchase. All right, so let’s get into it. The um 2025 St. Louis Cardinals have got to be one of the most frustrating teams in Cardinal history. Certainly one of the most frustrating since I’ve been covering the team. I mean, I’ve been watching them since I was a little baby, but um you know, where you watch them day in and day out. When you become one of those guys, it’s crazy to me how frustrating these guys are. I I I don’t even know what to say about them anymore. You know, one day they looked very much engaged in what’s going on and energetic. Look like that they’re meshing and they’re going to be a team that’s going to be a force to deal with for a couple of weeks and the next day they look completely different and they look like they’re asleep at the wheel. It’s like the most bipolar team I can remember. I mean, how do you go from winning two out of three on the road against the Dodgers? You come home, you win two out of three against the Cubs, two very good teams, right? And then lose two of three at home against a team that is on pace to have the worst record in the history of Major League Baseball. How do you do it? How do you do it? It’s mindboggling to me. Like there you have this chance where the teams in front of you are not playing all that great and somehow you’re still here and you’ve got an opportunity there. There’s some light at the end of the tunnel and then you completely blow it. I’ve witnessed some bad losses over the last couple years since I’ve been doing this podcast and Wednesday is certainly one that it looked and it smelled and it tasted like a W for eight innings. And to watch it disappear in a flash, it it made me want to throw up. It made me want to throw up. And I don’t mean to offend any Rockies fans because it’s not your fault that the team is just they’re not very good, right? But to lose games like this to Colorado makes everything feel worse. I mean, you are what your record says you are. And the Rockies are not a good team. The last time I felt I feel like this gross about a loss was back in 2023. And yes, I had to look it up because I couldn’t remember which month it was, but it was in April of 2023, the end of April, and it was a game in San Francisco, and the Cardinals had all but sealed up this win, and it looked like it was going to put them on a nice little path to becoming a better team, and Helsley gives up a walk-off home run. They lose. Um, and I don’t know why that one stands out to me so much because there’s been plenty of crappy endings and losses for the Cardinals since then, but for for whatever reason, that one stands out. I just couldn’t believe it happened. I remember I was getting ready to to go live on the podcast and I was typing up all the happy thoughts and getting them ready and then poof, they’re all gone and I was just left just so unfulfilled. I was just like, what? What just happened? And that’s how I felt after this one. Now 2023, as we know, a horrible season for the team, losing season. First one in 25 years, something like that. The Cardinals were terrible that year. Nothing went right for them. The team is better than that team. This year’s team is better. It’s much younger, that’s for sure. So, I I I you kind of have to expect some inconsistencies with some of these guys, but at the same time, it’s August now. The time for that crap is over. This team has no business losing four of six to the Colorado Rockies. They don’t. Cardinals are not a great team. I know that. But still, losing four of six to a team that has 28 other wins against the rest of the league is ridiculous. The fact that you were even trying to split with them is a little ridiculous. to do it when the rest of the NL it was somehow allowing you to hang around in this wild card discussion and to fall apart against the Rockies of all teams. It’s awful. The Cardinals held leads on Wednesday of uh two to nothing, 3 to one, 5-2. They could never shut the door on the Rockies offense who just showed more fight and more energy and more heart than the Cardinals did at the end of this game. the offense, which had done a really nice job against Rocky starter Austin Gomeber, who has not won a a game this year. They did fine against him. Left-hander, you know, they hit him well in uh Colorado in the previous series, too. The only game they won in that series was against Ga. And after he leaves, they just go into this shell after the fifth inning. and and early on it it felt like all right, they got something to prove. They came out in swinging the bat. You know, they came out cooking. Two outs in the second. Um N singles to JC single as you get that big hit from Pedro Pahes who, you know, has been kind of the whipping boy for the Cardinals fans recently uh because of his lack of offense and the fact that they just keep starting him even though Poso is a better hitter. but he comes through another another clutch hit. Two-run double gives the birds a two to nothing lead. Rockies respond with one in the top half of the fourth. Uh which was an ending that could have been much worse, but McGrevy got that big double play ball uh to squash the rally. Then in the bottom half, Lars Newar returns with a vengeance, rips a home run to make it three to one. And normally that’s a great sign. Coming into the game, Cardinal were 11-1 in games that N had homerred in this season. was his first dinger since July 8th. This is August 13th. I know he’s been banged up, but still the power is just poof, vanished for Newton. Um, but you had it back to a two-run lead. Rockies cut it to three to2. They don’t stop. And that’s when Alec Burles stepped up. He smokes a two-run shot to right field to make it five-2 in the fifth inning. 106 off the bat. And at this point, I’m thinking that should do it, right? Like that that should be enough. McGrevy looking good. bullpin is rested. All the big guns out there ready to roll if needed. This one’s This one’s over, right? And then the offense just punched out. They just took the rest of the game off. They didn’t have a single hit off the Rockies bullpen. They got no hit over the final what, four innings? They didn’t even have a base runner. None. 15 up, 15 down for the offense over the final uh innings of the game. How does How does that happen? After the Burley home run, they didn’t have a hit. How does that happen? How do you not even get a walk? Nothing. Down five to2. The Rockies went to Nick Anderson. It’s not like they brought in some one of their studs. Same guy that got released by the Cardinals in May. They brought him in and he throws all of 10 pitches. first two guys were out in three pitches and he breezes through his inning and that became kind of what the rest of their bullpin did. Uh the next guy, Hill 13 pitches. Herget 12 pitches. Vodnik 10 pitches. The these are not these are this isn’t the Padres’s who just have all stars coming out of that gate every inning, but the Cardinal sure made them look like them. They didn’t they didn’t look good at all. The offense goes one for five with runners in scoring position a day after going 0 for9 in risk situations in the three to nothing loss. They were three for 13 on Monday. So 4 for 27 if my math is correct in the series against the Rockies. You’re kidding me. I There’s no excuses for this. There’s none. It’s got to be better. Plain and simple. You can’t be like this. New Burley and PZ had uh six of the nine Cardinal hits. Nobody else really did. Jack Donny’s 0 for five, hitting 196 over his last 56 at bats. He’s not a leadoff hitter. Why is he still batting lead off? He was so good when he was batting third. But no, we just keep batting him lead off even though he sucks at it. He’s a good player, but that’s he’s just not as good at the top of the order there. Find somebody else. I had somebody hit me up and say, “Mason win should be starting at lead off uh against left-handers,” and I kind of threw the numbers at him at how bad Mason Win has been as a leadoff hitter. Somebody else, do something else because it ain’t working. Try something new. What do you got to lose? You’re losing to the Rockies anyway. Um, the loss also because a lot of the attention here was on the offense, but the loss also takes away a solid start from rookie Michael McGrevy who did a his job once again. 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Your feedback is always welcome and encouraged. I cannot wait to get into the comments after this game and this particular series because people are going to be spewing Venom and that entertains me. cuz I don’t normally get as worked up as I am today after this. Um, and I can only imagine what the people who normally get worked up are going to be like. So, uh, we’ll have those in your Cardinal Confessionals coming up on Thursday’s show when they have an off day. But, uh, let’s get back to Wednesday. Michael McGrevy, he’s had one bad game since taking over Eric Fetty’s spot in the rotation. He’s had one. Took it on the chin against, uh, the Padres’s for seven runs in four and two/3s innings back in July. since then, three starts, including this one, where he’s gone six innings on all three. Picked up wins over San Diego and the Cubs, and he did exactly what he was supposed to do on Wednesday. He should have got a W in this one. Six innings, three runs, seven hits, one of them a home run to Mickey Monia. Uh, two strikeouts, nothing spectacular. Michael McGrevy is not a spectacular type of pitcher. He’s not going to thrill you with a bunch of strikeouts and stuff, but he gets people out, which is good because that’s the key to the game. And he has another quality start here where he never surrendered the lead. Cardinals got him the lead, never gave it up, had to pitch around some trouble in the fourth inning, but got that big double play as I mentioned after uh three straight hits and holds the Rockies to just one run in that inning. Good job uh limiting damage, right? Stopping the bleeding. That’s important. Fifth inning, they got him for another two straight singles, but he limits that damage. Only gives up one. Then in the sixth, he lays a big old beach ball change up right down the middle to former number one overall pick Mickey Monia, who’s having a nice bounceback season with the Colorado Rockies. I’ll be curious to what his market looks like this off season. Uh see if anybody u wants to give him a decent multi-year contract, but hits his 18th home run over the wall in right center. uh cuts the lead to five to three, but it’s still five to three, you know, and part of the problem was letting the leadoff guys reach base. It happened a lot today. Not only doing that, but also throwing the ball down the middle of the plate. We’re learning that it’s very, very bad, aren’t we? And the Cardinals had to learn that lesson the hard way once again today. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing the Colorado Rockies or you’re playing the Milwaukee Brewers or the Toronto Blue Jays. Just like the good teams, the bad teams, if you throw it over the heart of the plate, they’re going to hit you eventually. It’ll happen. And it happened a lot in this game. The home run demoniac right over the heart of the plate. Horrible pitch. Kyle Lehey comes in for the seventh inning. Bullpin really, really got beat up in this one because of their lack of being able to throw it anywhere but over the heart of the plate. Kyle Lehey comes into that seventh inning. His first pitch to Kyle Keros. slider right down the middle. Smokes it for a leadoff double. Comes around to score after a wild pitch. Moved him to third base and a sack fly brought him home. The sack fly almost got out of the ballpark, too. It was a slider. Guess where? Right over the heart of the plate. He’s lucky that one didn’t land in the stands because off the bat it looked like it was going to carry out and go about three rows deep, but uh ended up staying in the ballpark. So, one run, 5-4 ball game. Now, then it’s Riley O’Brien’s turn. First off, credit to Ali. Smart move. Replace Ivon Herrera in left field. Defensive movement moves uh Nupar over to left. Victor Scott goes into center field. And he it’s a good thing he did it that in heading because Riley O’Brien fooled absolutely nobody today. They were shooting missiles into left field. It’s almost like they were like, “Oh, target practice.” It’s like they were doing it on purpose to new. You know how like uh a coach takes a fungo bat and just starts hitting fly balls and line drives over to the left fielder for practice. That’s what it looked like off Riley O’Brien today. First pitch that Riley O’Brien throws over the middle base hit. Two pitches later, sinker down the middle. Smoke to left. 99 off the bat. N snags it. Two pitches later again. Sinker over the middle. Ezekiel Tovar rips it. 107 off the bat. Somehow N tracks that one down. I thought that was in the gap for sure and it was a tie ball game. Three pitches later, another sinker over the dish. Base hit to left at 100 miles per hour. Two pitches later, a slider right over the middle of the plate. Hanger lace to left, but N’s in the perfect spot. 90 miles per hour off the bat. All they did was hit the snot out of the ball off Riley O’Brien today because all he was doing was throwing it right down the middle. I don’t know how you they can’t scoot it over and hit the corners. I don’t understand it. O’Brien was lucky that three of those didn’t have better launch angles cuz those would have been home runs. No doubt they’d all have been over the wall. But he lives to fight another day. And Alli made a great move by putting Newton left field. Then Jojo comes down in the ninth inning and what’s the cardinal rule for relievers? And I say Cardinal rule, not not because the St. Louis Cardinal, but just what’s the what’s the number one rule? You do not walk the lead off hitter. Credit to Keros who was leadoff hitter and he did not chase anything that was low. Romero walks him on seven pitches. Everything he was throwing that if it wasn’t a strike, which was only three of the seven pitches he threw, they were all way down low. He was having trouble elevating his arm angle and I just knocked something over there. Uh his arm angle to he was throwing everything below the knees. Couldn’t get it up in the zone and it was a precursor to what would happen in this inning because uh Romero’s command was clearly off. He did not look sharp and he wasn’t getting ahead of anyone. Rockies start unloading the bench at this point. He falls behind Britain Doyle who’s the pinch hitter. 3-1 count before coming back and striking him out on an absolutely nasty slider. That thing was dirty. Although it did go right over the heart of the plate, but it was a three-2 slider and he wasn’t looking for that at all and it was pretty dirty. Um the next guy though, off the bench, all-star Hunter Goodman burned him on Tuesday. Jojo falls behind him three 3-1 and he serves up a juicy sinker. Guess where? Right down Broadway. If you go look at the box on MLB.com, right down the middle in that box and Goodman does not miss. He blasted 436 feet to center field. Gives the Rockies a six to five lead. As soon as it left his hand, I was like, “Oh ship, an absolute cookie, a gift, if you will, a please hit me type of pitch.” And it immediately sank the hundreds of fans who were in attendance because there was nobody there. And what looked like a third straight series win is snatched away in a blink of an eye. All the momentum that the Cardinals had built after taking out the Dodgers and taking out the cut. It’s gone just like that. You just blew it. It’s all gone. The fact that Ley, O’Brien, and Jojo were all off on the same day, that’s mind-blowing to me. When does that ever happen? Where everybody sucks. Did they all go out to the strip clubs the night before like in Varsity Blues? What happened? What the hell happened? And it and it’s hard to, you know, get on these guys because they they’ve been really really good, right? I mean, this is not it’s not like this is a common theme that we see these guys have an issue. Since taking over the role, since the trade deadline, they’ve been very good. And the Cardinals overall have been really good in these situations all year. Heck, it was only the third time in 61 games that they’ve lost a game that they led going into the ninth inning. But it’s the Rockies. It’s the Rockies, man. If this were another team, I probably wouldn’t be as worked up about it. If you saw this happen uh against like the Mets or the Brewers or something like that, you’d be like, “Well, you know, those are pretty good teams.” And so, you know, closing them out, it’s not easy. It’s the Rockies. The only other team the Rockies have defeated more than three times this season is the Washington Nationals. Four and three against them. They only have a winning record against three other teams. The Marlins and the Twins and the Pirates. In their six games this season against the Rockies, the Cardinals have been outscored 27 to 18. What? What? This is a historically bad hitting and pitching team. And they got blank three to nothing on Tuesday. Like what? How? How? How do you blow this? Very frustrating. I’m trying to remain calm. I’m getting calmer about it as the night continues on. All right, bro. It’s like I’ve said for most of the season and they they are the most they’re they’re they’re like dancing two steps forward, two steps back. It’s what they’re doing. They’re whatever kind of dance that is. That’s that’s the Cardinals this year. And it is uh it is very very frustrating. Um, I want to go back to Tuesday night’s game real quick because I want to talk about Matthew Liberator because everybody was very concerned about him after looking so good and then everything went bad and the VO dropped and we’ve got some updates on things with him. So, we’ll talk about it next coming up on Lock on Cardinals. Breathe. 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So, if you want to uh see us talk about the rest of the league as well as and moan about the Cardinals and the Yankees or not Yankees, but the Angels, um we can do that, too. But it’s a good time. So, we appreciate you coming by. Anyway, Matthew Liberator, um he struggled again on Tuesday night. Not so much that he pitched really that bad, although his command was off. You know, he was having trouble getting on top of the the breaking ball, but he started off looking terrific, right? You know, that that first inning, he fans the side. He looks awesome. He was hitting 95.4 miles per hour with the fast ball, but later on things fell apart and he he’s been struggling to pitch in in deep into games. Heck, we’re not even asking him to be deep into games. I mean, we’re not even looking for six, seven innings at this point. We just want to see him get through five. That would be nice because he hasn’t done that in quite a while. Was unable to get there once again. and I mentioned how he’s been hitting what we call the rookie wall that that guys tend to hit in their first year in the big leagues. Now, of course, this is not Matthew Litor’s first year in in Major League Baseball, but it is his first year as a member of the starting rotation. So, it’s not surprising. It’s only natural that eventually he would start to wear down due to the amount of innings that he’s throwing for the first time in his major league career. So, I I I’m not all that concerned with that. But where things started to be like uh oh was when you saw the VO drop again. That’s a separate issue that had alarms going off a little bit because you worry about some sort of injury. The VO dipped from where was it? 95.4 in that first inning as low as 91.7 by his 13th pitch of the fifth inning. According to to baseball savant John Denton who said uh that for the game the average VLOO on his fast ball was 93.6 six down from 94.1 that he had averaged over 22 starts while going six and 10 this year. Now we saw him deal with a similar situation like this earlier in the year if you remember where all of a sudden the VO was down and everybody was like uhoh do we have an arm injury here? Is he okay? Ended up just being a mechanics issue and uh just was like I just I’m reaching back to throw it. It’s just not there. It’s a mechanics thing. Not long after that, he was back to normal. And here we are in the dog days of August. Technically still within striking distance of the NL wild card. I’m not putting the nail in the coffin yet, although it feels like we should after losing to the freaking Rockies because that certainly poured some ice cold water on the dream for uh the NL wild card possibilities. Um still a lot of baseball left though. But they say Ali said that, you know, they’re going to monitor things closely. But it doesn’t appear to be a health issue that it’s just, you know, something that’s he’s dealing with. Maybe he’s going to go through some dead arm stuff at some point just because he’s tired. Like the heat this summer has been unbearable. So, I can see why some of these guys are are wearing down quicker in games. Um, but maybe knowing that four innings is kind of the cap for Libby moving forward will allow the Cardinals to better prepare the ballpin for, you know, piggyback games of some sort. I know uh Katie Woo from The Athletic mentioned something like that uh on her ex account that, you know, maybe that’s something they can kind of plan around where it’s like, “All right, let’s give it’s four strong innings. You’re still a starter. four strong innings and then we can find somebody else like Allehey who can stretch it to three or Swanson or somebody like that. Like it just gives him a chance to to plan for it better. I’m glad he’s not hurt. Cardinals don’t have a lot of depth for any injuries uh for certainly the starting rotation. So don’t want him going down with anything uh because I don’t I don’t know who you’re going to replace them with. Uh they do have a day off on Thursday. Yankees are in town this weekend. and Andre Palante schedule to start on Friday. I don’t I I I would love to tell you that I expect them to bounce back and be better. I I don’t know what what we’re going to expect. You know, if the team comes out that comes out of that clubhouse and it looks like the team that took the field against the Dodgers and the Cubs, then I’d expect a fun series. I I I don’t know if they’ll win it, but I expect it at least to be entertaining and fun. If the guys that came out against the Rockies end up taking the field, then they’ll probably get swept because the Yankees are a better team than the Colorado Rockies. So, bing flip a coin as to what the hell we’re going to get from the Cardinals in this upcoming series. So, super Debbie Downer uh losing this series to the Rockies again. All the momentum kind of kind of sucked out and now you got to start over again. But that’s what these Cardinal have been most of the year. They’re they’re they’re a 500 team. That’s who they are and that’s probably where they’ll stay. But very very u disheartening series loss and just a normal game loss on Wednesday when for eight innings it looked like you had this one in the back. Thanks for making lockdown Cardinal first listen every day. If you haven’t already, please give us a follow on X at L_Cardinal and at JD Sports Radio, Tik Tok and Instagram at Lockdown Cardinals. of course on YouTube as well if you haven’t subscribed. Would love to have you on board as we push for 13,000 subscribers. Through the good and the bad, we are here with you each and every day. You guys are the best fans in baseball. 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Cardinals’ Playoff Hopes Shaken After Stunning Series Loss to Rockies. Can St. Louis Bounce Back Against the Yankees?

JD Hafron breaks down the St. Louis Cardinals’ frustrating collapse against Colorado, highlighting bullpen meltdowns and Matthew Liberatore’s pitching struggles. The analysis covers Wednesday’s game where the Cardinals squandered multiple leads, the offense’s complete shutdown after the 5th inning, and critical errors from relievers Kyle Leahy, Riley O’Brien, and JoJo Romero. JD examines Liberatore’s velocity drop and potential strategy adjustments moving forward.

Tune in for an in-depth look at the Cardinals’ wild card chances and how they can regroup before facing the New York Yankees in a crucial upcoming series.

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