In the event of Rapture all other teams will be Left Behind: the 2015 St. Louis Cardinals

Getting Holliday and Adams and Grich back would obv help. Cards can't match #1 starters vs either Cubs/pirates so they really need to hold on to 1st.

holliday activated from DL, although he's not in the starting lineup. and Adams is back, and starting at 1B tonight.

we need some of these pirates/cubs games to go 46 innings.

that was maybe my favorite carlos martinez game of the year.

8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 9 K, fastball around 98/99 throughout the game and touching 100mph. he hit a legit double off the wall when the rest of the offense couldn't get anything going. he picked someone off. and then that incredible play on the bunt (clip here: https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/643973899202359296/photo/1)

wonder how many homers Pham will have to hit to surpass Jay on the Matheny chart

I'm just listening to the game while I'm working but I must have missed something, why are the Cardinals so mad today?

it seems Dan Haren hit Carpenter w/ a pitch (head?)

but was that before or after this?

http://deadspin.com/lance-lynn-sucks-is-unreasonably-angry-about-it-1731732888

Jesse Rogers
@ESPNChiCubs

Rizzo hit for 2nd time today and P Matt Belisle is ejected. So is Matheny, by rule. Both teams were warned after Holliday HBP

i'm sure that at least one of rizzo's hbps today was on purpose, but the fuckin guy is right on the plate

lance lynn is mad because he's really sucked since late July. he walked 6 guys today. he was right to an extent; the zone was tight:

http://i.imgur.com/GJznVHr.png

so yeah, i count 5 clear strikes thrown by lynn that were called balls, and another 4-5 that were right on the edge. but the zone was tight/wrong for the cubs pitchers too. lynn's just mad because he might not make the playoff rotation.

dan haren hit matt holliday in the head in holliday's second plate appearance since coming off the DL. obviously an accident, though, to anyone watching. i didn't see rizzo's second HBP because i had already ragequit watching the game.

Broxton ankieling

Andrew Simon
‏@AndrewSimonMLB
What a great throw by Jason Heyward there for a huge double play. Statcast tracked it at 95.5 mph. Distance of 242 feet.

heyward threw a 95.5 mph fastball to home from 242 feet?

Holy shit that throw. He even blew up Yadi's glove hand. (yes I know it was the tag)

daily drama: Yadi down, Grichuk in LF, Waino to pen?

it'd be great to have grichuk back in the lineup, assuming he can actually throw now. (he CAN throw now, right? RIGHT??!?!)

i don't know what to think of the wainwright thing. seems foolish to rush him back to action and risk further injury, but maybe he's alright now? matheny should go with his gut and keep waino on the bench until bringing him in for the very last pitch of a playoff series

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-statcast-baserunning-data-ichiro-suzuki/

Bourjos is faster going from 1B to 2B than Billy Hamilton, on average. and Heyward takes some of the longest leads off of 1B in MLB. interesting article! although it's absolutely maddening because Statcast has all of this awesome information collected somewhere, and refuses to make it publicly accessible.

i'm still not sure that this is a good idea. but here's waino, throwing a simulated game:

https://twitter.com/LangoschMLB/status/646781814481137664

@dgoold 11 minutes ago
Seven pitches into his start, Carlos Martinez has been removed from the game, walking with a trainer. Emotional as he leaves. #Cardinals

wtffffffffffffffffffff

it sounds back spasms from twitter. which is lower on the terrible scale

But still,

Nooooooooooooooooo

Anybody but Carlos. He's my favorite.

@LangoschMLB 2 minutes ago
#STLCards announce that Carlos Martinez left the game with right shoulder tightness.

shoulder :((((((((((((((((

9th-inning rally vs K-Rod fails; Bucs 3 back

@Cardinals
"Carlos Martinez suffered a shoulder strain and will be shut down for the remainder of the season."
-John Mozeliak

insane injuries this year. guess the 4 man rotation is set now, smh

Nnnnnnnnngggghhh

No one will give a shit because it's the cardinals but I feel like winning this many games with this many injuries deserves a nobel prize

can't really give them credit for holliday because lol old, but it *is* pretty amazing. presumed right fielder dies, have the pitching depth to deal for a new one (who was probably better, for this one season, but still), #1 pitcher goes down, starting 1B goes down, etc. etc., still the best team in the game

also for overcoming matheny/putting him in situations where his idiocy didn't matter. i kinda think the manager's biggest job is keeping players happy and playing well -- and getting guys saves or whatever may play into that -- but man, starting a center fielder who couldn't throw the ball was the dumbest fucking thing i've ever seen. naturally they won that game anyway

surprised they ran on heyward there in the first, even with marte's speed

jesus.

ugh

Saw a comment earlier today like: baseball gods genuinely curious if cardinals can win with no players left on the field.

Didn't see it, not sure I want to.

they only showed the replay once, from a wide angle. didn't look good at all :(

got a little wave at least

yeah, and lower body also moved apparently (i didn't see it).

Jenifer Langosch ✔ @LangoschMLB
Good news on Piscotty: All tests came back negative for fractures or significant injury. He will be monitored in hospital overnight.
11:34 PM - 28 Sep 2015

PHEW

released from the hospital with 'just bruises'

Jenifer Langosch ‏@LangoschMLB 9 minutes ago
Great news all around on Piscotty's condition. GM Mozeliak: "I think the good news is he probably will play again in the regular season."

doubleheader tomorrow

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/09/cardinals-to-activate-adam-wainwright.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/the-st--louis-cardinals-should-probably-stop-making-rap-videos-203519351.html

pitching Cole in game 1? not cool bros

i'm gonna do myself a favor and not listen that song

really wish i could take the afternoon off and watch these games today.

wacha has really struggled the last month or two. whether it's fatigue or hitters figuring him out or bad luck or whatever, he doesn't really resemble the pitcher from may/june.

and the lyons game is just a crapshoot. hopefully we'll just kind of luck out with one of the games today and get it over with.

doesn't matter. even if the cards lost both today, which i do not expect, they're not going to drop two more games in the standings while finishing vs the barves

if you believe in laundry, the '64 Cards were almost done in by the Mets at the end of the season

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/1964-schedule-scores.shtml

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yeah, very unlikely. but baseball's weird

So Wacha seems fried. Go go game 2.

yeah, it's been agonizing watching him the last 2 months. lance lynn, too, for the most part.

waino warming up for bottom of the 8th