Nathan Eovaldi (1-1, 2.12) vs. Chris Carpenter (8-8, 3.68).
The last-place Dodgers limp into St. Louis having lost five of their last seven. The Cards, a distant second place in the NL Central and third in the wild card, need to make up ground, and fast. They're sending a resurgent Carpenter against the Dodgers' callow Eovaldi. Oh, and the Dodgers have a franchise winning percentage of .444 in St. Louis. But hey, at least today's game is on TV!
Sax's note: SoSG Alex Cora and I made it to St. Louis and are at the game today. We'll be reporting live from St. Louis!
UPDATE: The lineup, via Sax:
UPDATE 7p CT from Sax: From the St. Louis Cardinals press box. Sons of Steve Garvey, reporting!
195 comments:
Carroll 6
Loney 3
Kemp 8
Rivera 7
Ethier 9
Miles 5
Barajas 2
Velez 4
Eovaldi 1
Here's hoping Mattingly sent Loney and Velez out to warm up in the bullpen before the game. And here's further hoping that Velez got beaned in the nuts by a Loney fastball and is unable to play.
Velez is still hitless?
0 for 22
SoSG AC and I are on the field at Busch Stadium. Wow.
@Sax
Stop streaking!
Sax and AC are surrounded by Busch.
Sax, if you're arrested, I know a guy in St. Louis who can sneak you some sporks and a wrench while in the slammer. Trust me, you'll need them.
DUDE!
Post updated.
Nice!
<--Jealous of ballpark road trips and just noticed that MLASC is actually Mr. LA Sports Czar.........
Updated the post again, from the press box
In the press box at busch stadium. Lovely view.
And, Ken Gurnick is a pretty nice guy.
Patrick ONeil from fox sports is sitting behind us. Nice guy.
Two called Ks in the first inning. Difficult.
Kemp was absolutely stroking them in BP by the way, so it's sad he didn't make contact there.
Very aggressive beer man beneath us in the press box. Makes me...very jealous.
Quick shot back to Eovladi. I accidentally clapped here in the box.
Bad, bad Sax.
Hard to pay attention to the game with all of this baseball eye candy.
Ground ball to the beanstalk for the second out.
I am eagerly awaiting Velez' ABs here.
There goes the no-hitter. Pujols reaches on a weak dribbler to third, Miles can't quite get the ball out of his glove (though it would have been close).
Lout of the jam. Nice job rook.
Nutshot flies to second for the third out.
0-0 through 1.
They have these cool automatic windows that roll down in front of us. Getting cooler and it is actually pleasant.
Leadoff walk to Rivera.
Crowd is full but quiet
I can see the Hilton hotel that I stayed at many years back that overlooked the old stadium.
We probably should have had Ethier GIDP but Miles came back and promptly fouled out.
WE SUCK
Not many people there tonight.
I just saw an LA, a Boston, and a NY cap in the crowd.
Wow Barajas Just barely beat that out. Man is he slow.
How is the crowd full? TV catching huge swaths of empty seats.
What are you guys, the Dodgers front office in charge of announcing the night's attendance?
Wow, Descalso almost had time to get a sundae made and still almost throw out Barajas there
first and second with Eugenio up and two out. We know how this ends.
Does the valez 0 for streak end here?
Strike out swinging.
0-for-23, Eugenio.
No. nO it does not.
"Eugeni0"
Nope. With the strike out. But Mattingly would say that was a quality at bat.
Oh no the seats are empty. Especially in the corners. But for a Monday crowd not bad.
I kinda want Velez to just really really suck.
But for a Shards game, bad.
No beer for you guys in the press box?
45
Crap. There goes the shut out. They shoot loud fireworks after a home run.
Lance Berkman just jacked that shot to centerfield.
Wow.
They're calling 421 feet in the press box.
It does look to have filled in since first pitch.
What are these, Dodgers fans?
421 feet per the announcer.
The loudspeaker voice in the press box kinda scares me.
@ mr F. As if he doesn't already?
MSB gets the first out, 6-3
Sweet play by loney. Card fans giving him the love too. Gotta like that.
Wow, nice play by Loney, and the St Louis fans give him a great clap for the defensive play.
Impressive, St. Louis fans. Most impressive.
@AC,
I mean, I have no wish to see him do well. It's not like Loney who I've accepted sucks, but still want to do well. I'm perfectly okay with Velez going 0 for whatever.
Loney with out #3.
1-0 St Louis after two innings.
Interesting ad on the St Louis scoreboard right there for Peabody Energy. They basically made it look like the scoreboard and ribbon scoreboards shorted out, only to come back on and tell us that coal powers Busch Stadium and that Peabody Energy brings us that power.
Hmm.
Don't get me wrong, I love dodger stadium, but I gotta say that this new stadium looks really really nice.
It's the "Mow 'em down" inning.
If Carpenter gets 1 K, section 249 row 1 gets a $5 card. 2Ks, it's a $10 card, 3 Ks, it's a lawnmower courtesy of bad boy mowers.
Eovaldi chocks up one K.
Plus they built this thing in one off season just in time for the opening the following year.
2 Ks. That's good for $10
James continues the hot streak
"Possible extra bases for James"
NO. No it wasn't. Because he's fucking slooooooow.
Ask them what their GM is up to, would they be interested in Colletti? After Pujols walks what are the red birds going to do?
Kemp with a comebacker. No lawnmower for you, big guy! But no runs for the Dodgers, either.
Nice play by Miles on that comebacker that was just outside Eovaldi's glove. He had to wait until after it passed Eovaldi to make the play, so he stutter-stepped to see if it was going to be deflected or not.
Runner on second, one out, bottom 3. David Freese up.
Eovaldi freezes David Freese, who grounds to short.
Two out, man on second, some guy named Pujols up and getting some cheering.
They built it in one off-season? No way, maybe they build 2/3 and then blew up the old stadium and did that part in one off-season?
Pujols flies to right on a 1-0 pitch to end the inning.
1-0 Cardinals through three.
@DK323: yes, that is a more accurate description of what they did to build the new Busch. They had about half of it built and had to finish it once the season ended in 2005, so they could build the rest of the new one in 2006.
Rivera flies to left for the first out of the fourth
Three quick out for the Dodgers.
Got some nice popcorn and peanuts and water for the press peeps.
Yeah they built as much as they could before the end if the season. But what is interesting is that the old stadium actually traversed some of the ground of the new stadium.
Can someone explain to me how lance berkman is ripping it up this year?
Pick off!
Great 1-3 pickoff play there, Nate
Mr f. The suckness continues for EV.
I actually root for Velez to fail.
1-0 Cardinals through 4.5 innings
nice play there from MSB for the firs out in the bottom of the fifth
Trivia time! According to the press notes, eovaldi is one of the handful of pitchers under 22 to open careers with 3+ starts of 5+ IP, less than 2 runs and 5 hits of less since 1946. Can you name the others?
Carpenter, trying to lay down the sac bunt. 0-2 count with one out and a runner on first...
pitch out
Trivia time. There are six others.
BOOOOOOOOOOOO
Three ar current players, although one of those three is in the minors.
Who the let these fools in the press box?!
#Saxy #AC
Gets out o the jam. Took the air out of the crowd.
Eovaldi pitching a great game through five, except for one bad pitch we'd be scoreless...
I'm going to guess Stephen Strasburg, Matt Cain, and Felix Hernandez, among others.
In fact, I'll go nuts, AC. Wayne Simpson, Rudy May, and Dave Morehead for the other three?
I was at the new Busch III during the NLCS in 2006 when I was traveling to St. Louis for work on a semi-regular basis. The park wasn't complete, mostly on the club level. I remember my access card from my office in Pittsburgh opened all of the RFID-style locks on the club level so I took in a good chunk of the game from the shell of what would become a suite. The plumbing was done in my "suite" so I had a personal bathroom. Alas, no catering, though.
MSB with a full count here to lead off the sixth...and he grounds to second.
Wow sax, your baseball knowledge is amazing. Great job. Your prize is to go get me some popcorn from the dining hall. Go now.
Loney now has two of the three hits
It is strange to hear the dodgers players get announced here and NOT hear their walk up music.
All right, so here's the big Matt Kemp-batting-third-in-the-lineup experiment. Kemp is 0-for-2 with a K (looking).
Kemp with a big swinging K there. Hmm.
Two out, SLow-ney on first
1-2 count to Rivera here with two away
@ Spank 6:32pm
^fuck
Damn Apple II.
I know how this story ends unfortunately. Yep, fly out to right to end the inning.
1-0 St Louis through 5.5.
@Jason 6:38p: how did you figure out that your rfid card would work here in the Busch Suites?
Wow a marriage proposal at a baseball game! Amazing.
Dude, I just realized we are in last place here.
Holy smokes.
Ethier with a nice catch out there in right off of Albert Pujols
Wow, just opened GameDay and noticed that there are bayer aspiring ads abutting the top scoreboard edges.
Hmm.
Holliday K! Celebrate!
That was a big swing there, Nutshot.
Ribbon scoreboard JUST changed from Holliday to Berkman, in Berkman's second pitch of the AB
Rivera with the fly out to end the sixth inning.
For all of you bobblehead collectors, they are doing a Willie McGee giveaway on Friday august 26 and a Matt Holliday giveaway on Sunday august 28.
not drinking at this game is very very strange
Ethier is swinging for the fences here
1-2 count
Sax last call for beer.
Ethier grounds to second, not even close. He's 0-for-3.
Way back in the day, I ran the IT systems including the badge/keycard system for a few location of a large ad agency. I recalled that during office remodels or new space build-outs, the installed system was "all-open" meaning any badge would activate any lock. It was up to an admin to lock things down which is why, generally, the card readers on outside doors are never hooked up until well after construction is complete. The system at Busch was all wired up so I gave it a shot. Sure enough: green light, audible beep and the sweet click of freedom.
I also ran the PBX system for that company. I can still route free calls through their system since they never changed the access codes or the toll-free dial-in support line. I haven't worked there in 11 years. Not that I'd ever do anything like that.
Dammit, they're doing last call now, and I am completely beerless.
That's a hell of a gun at short to nail Miles at first.
AC is mocking my beerlessness
Base hit Barajas! His second hit of the game.
Loney and Barajas have two hits each, and everyone else has ZERO.
Keep the streak alive EV!
Here's Velez, 0-for-ever
Why oh why is the playing?
Great!
Bunch of middle school choirs sang TMOTB. You couldn't hear them singing at first, and then the Cardinals crowd joined in and you could hear the song faintly.
Very cool.
Dammit, we've held the Cardinals to one fucking run all game long, and we are going to lose.
This sucks.
"You have two outs left to buy beer! Last call!"
Ohhhhhh, this hurts.
Sax may lose his streak of 935 consecutive games with a beer
Rivera with a sweet catch in left field. Wow.
Man are we really going to go down 1-0? Crap
Attendance: 35, 198
SAX'S STREAK IS ALIVE!!!
I mock your beerlessness, Sax.
I'll bet you don't have to pay full price for that non-beer, either, like at some stadia I know.
MSB with a MS fly out
Carroll has had some good at bats.
NOT!
Some of the St Louis reporters do not wash their hands after using the restroom facilities
Three-hit game for Loney!
Of course, we won't score, but still.
Put em on your back James!
The Dodgers finally strike, felling Holliday in left field...by a bee sting
Nutshot got an earshot.
Ooooh...I had 45 and 145. Life is good.
STEEEEEERike out. Okay, it was only Carpenter, but still.
fookie sighting!
Cards fans are actually booing whomever is going out to the mound right now. Wow those are some crazy fans.
That's right, Carpenter! STAY DOWN! We OWN you!
Dre Ks for the first out
Come on, Blue. Make me cheer in this press box.
I have a bad feeling this is a Miles GIDP to end the game here
Streak the press box, win or lose, Saxy.
Unos wild
Them crazy 1s!
Miiles needs to do something here. Natives are getting restless.
Cardinals fans are all here right now. I mean, it's a quick game so far, but they're still all here...those that came.
Dusty is right, this stadium was FAR from full this evening.
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW
Wowowowowowowowowow
FUCK YEAH!
MILES RBI TRIPLE!!!
Holy smokes, I want to cheer.
I want to cheer.
I want another beer!
These. Crd fans are brutal. Booing the heck out of Larussa walking to the mound.
Wait, you ended up getting a beer after all, Sax?
Didn't expect the Miles triple (obviously, given my prior comment). Wow.
Get him home, Barajas
Cardinals fans are leaving early!!!
In a 1-1 game!
I have photo proof of Cardinals fans leaving early
Barajas RBI!!!
FC RBI
Holy crap. Could the sons see a win?
Dodgers take the lead! Dodgers take the league!
Fookie helps us out.
Raffy still loves us!
Velez will not break his 0-for-lifetime streak in this game.
Bottom of the ninth. Here we go.
Playing AC DC in the stadium.
Furcal finally comes through for the Dodgers!
Come on javy
Time to find out what Javy Guerra is made of.
Wow - 3 Sons posting in one GT!
^ cc: Lasorda
I did in fact get a beer, with two out in the bottom of the seventh I ran out of the press box and grabbed a beer vendor for a $8 Bud Light which I promptly downed in two gulps (I'm getting old).
SoSG AC has proof of me with beer, Dusty: I knew you'd be doubting!
You could hear navy in the press box yelling "up up up up !!!!" on that puljos pop up.
Carroll with a nice play at second
Must be the wide eyes
Will Furcal help his old team again?
You can hear a pin drop here it is so quiet
Well that woke up the crowd
Dammit, Carroll gives the favor back to Furcal
DODGERS WIN!
Yes!!
@Sax
I would NEVER doubt you, my man.
There it is folks, the sons travel 1600 miles to see a Dodger win!
Thx for representing, Sons!
Now it is really is quiet in here. These fans are really sad.
One kid is crying.
SONS SEE A WIN ON THE ROAD! HOLY SHIT BATMAN!!!
Post-Game Thread is UP
Ok Dusty, now hat the game is o ver and we are going to walk out, what was it that you wanted me to say to these cardinal fans again?
I don't believe it!
Or do I?
lol LaRussa is a bozo for some reason that franchise lets him call the shots though.....
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