Game Summary<\/p>\n
The Pirates come to town for their first visit to RDS ever and leave with a 28-year streak of never having lost a game in Jupiter. The Pirates broke on top early with a 2-run HR by phenom Konnor Griffin, added a 2 spot in the second inning and single tallies in the fourth and seventh. Offensively, the Cardinals mustered by one hit and scored a lone run a rally killing GIDP in the fifth.<\/p>\n
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Pre-Game Notes<\/p>\n
The venue remains unchanged. Roger Dean Stadium. Pittsburgh is in.<\/p>\n
Barco pitches for the Pirates. Leahy for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n
Mautz, Rincon, Romero, Roycroft, Moreno to follow Leahy, not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n
Herrera at lead-off today. Followed by Urias, Gorman, Walker, Fermin, Pozo, Church, Davis, Rivas<\/p>\n
Looking forward to seeing K. Griffin.<\/p>\n
The big news is Oli\u2019s extension gets rolled out today. Have you heard?<\/p>\n
Otherwise, a quiet day at camp. MiLBers have the day off.<\/p>\n
The Manager\u2019s Corner (pre-game)<\/p>\n
Oli came into the media room shortly after the press conference.<\/p>\n
Noted Herrera at lead-off is a way to get him ABs early in the game and still get him some time behind the plate. Still in build up mode, but they like what they see.<\/p>\n
Does not think WBC attendance by the 9 players listed will be nearly as disruptive as last time. Sounds like it can be hit-and-miss on what information they get back from WBC teams on how their players are progressing. Some orgs are better at that than others. Isn\u2019t it that way with everything?<\/p>\n
Seems he might know the Team USA manager.<\/p>\n
Urias has been a topic of Q&A each day. I will explore that more in-depth in an article later in camp.<\/p>\n
First trip ever into RDS for the Pirates. Cardinals return the favor this upcoming Thursday.<\/p>\n
Game Observations<\/p>\n
A double and a Griffin HR put a quick 2-spot on the board for the Bucs. Griffin launched a center-cut sweeper that swept into the hitting sweet spot instead of out of it.<\/p>\n
Another 2-spot in the second inning, featuring more bloops and bleeders than anything.<\/p>\n
Bedell into take the last batter of the third inning, with Leahy\u2019s pitch count in the 50\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Through three innings, the Cardinals are hitless (been a bit of that at the start of this camp) and find themselves down 4-0.<\/p>\n
Jhostynxon Garcia greets Romero in the 4th with a solo shot, otherwise a quiet inning.<\/p>\n
Cardinals load the bases in fifth to make some noise. Davis GDP plates a run but ends the noise.<\/p>\n
Mautz pitches 2.2 with 3 Ks, complicated by 3 walks, ultimately giving up a run. Nunez finishes the inning with a K after giving up a run scoring single to right. He is high octane.<\/p>\n
Roycroft pitches a scoreless 8th w 2Ks.<\/p>\n
The bottom of the eighth produces a Tai Peete sighting. He K\u2019s looking. He loses the challenge and the Cardinals are out of challenges.<\/p>\n
Rincon in to cap off the ninth. 11 pitches. 4-seamer tops at 97, avg closer to 95. Slider got outs.<\/p>\n
The Manager\u2019s Corner (post-game)<\/p>\n
Leahy wasn\u2019t as sharp as he\u2019d want to be today. Got back in the 1st after the HR and got out in 11 pitches.<\/p>\n
Herrera and Leahy seemed to be on the same page, Ivan managed the game well<\/p>\n
Mautz let some counts get away.<\/p>\n
Final notes<\/p>\n
Will work the back fields tomorrow in the AM and then begin to long trek home, so this is the last game recap.<\/p>\n
Will recap the back field experience for my Friday article. It may take that long to re-surface and process all the impressions I\u2019ve gotten. Some may marinate all summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Summary The Pirates come to town for their first visit to RDS ever and leave with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,19257,9545,4,10,776,78285,673,67,4311,4310,4391,11310],"class_list":["post-601206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-jhostynxon-garcia","tag-konnor-griffin","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-roycroft","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-the-cardinals","tag-the-pirates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116158330628391156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}