They Can't Make Kyle Lohse Todd Wellemeyer

I'll say this for Tony La Russa: There is no bigger and more daring reverse jinx than starting Todd Wellemeyer, let alone doing it in the middle of the first Cardinals losing streak since the end of the Ron Gant era. This may not have been the way he anticipated fulfilling the reverse jinx, although once you're through the Wellemeyer looking glass it's hard to say what's gamesmanship and what isn't; but it was good to see the Cardinals win a game that was beginning to look like the Braves series redux.

Viva El Birdos