How Cardinals, Marlins Made Mayhem In Miami

Allen Watson, a Cardinals pitcher struggling to get outs, and Orestes Destrade, a Marlins batter struggling to get hits, took out their frustrations on each other.

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Playoff Experience Has Randy Flores For Prepared For Pressure Of Draft

The most pressurized moment in Randy Flores’ pitching career came on Oct. 19, 2006 when the left-hander was summoned from the Cardinals’ bullpen in the eighth inning of game seven of the NL Championship Series against the Mets.

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Why Cardinals Wanted Royce Clayton As Their Shortstop

Seeking a replacement for Ozzie Smith, the Cardinals needed a shortstop who possessed exceptional fielding skills, self-confidence and diplomacy. They chose Royce Clayton.

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The Unproductive Reunion Of Ken Hill, Cardinals

When the Cardinals reacquired Ken Hill, they thought they’d found an ace. Instead, he was a dud.

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One-Pitch Wonders For Cardinals: Al Brazle To Randy Choate

With one pitch, Rob Murphy earned redemption, Jason Motte ignited an unusual double play and Randy Choate escaped a bases-loaded jam.

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Rick Sutcliffe Symbolized Sad State Of Cardinals In 1994

Rick Sutcliffe is, by all accounts, a smart and personable man who had a first-rate career as a pitcher in the major leagues. But his year with the Cardinals reflects how distressed the proud franchise had become in the final years of Anheuser-Busch ownership.

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Mitch Boggs' Latest Blunder Spoils Michael Wacha's Special Debut

Before Thursday night’s game against Kansas City, Cardinals reliever Mitchell Boggs had allowed at least one run in seven of 18 games he’d been in this season, or 39 percent of the time. He had saved two games, blown two saves and lost two games. Yet manager Mike Matheny saw fit to bring him into the ninth inning of a 2-1 game, a lead which Boggs promptly coughed up.

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John Gast Makes Second Start In Rubber Match Vs. Brewers

On Tuesday, John Gast became the first Cardinals left-handed pitcher to start and win his Major League debut since Allen Watson in 1993.

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Cardinals Rookie Pitchers Tested Joe Torre in 1994

Joe Torre can relate to Tony La Russa’s recent use of two Cardinals pitchers making their big-league debuts in the same game.

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Jaime Garcia Replicates John Tudor 1990 Start

Jaime Garcia is the first Cardinals left-handed starter to begin a season 4-0 since John Tudor did it 21 years ago.

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Jaime Garcia: Shades Of John Tudor

An indicator of just how special the performance of rookie pitcher Jaime Garcia was in 2010 for the Cardinals is earned run average.

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Adam Wainwright Repeats As Allen Watson Award Winner

Adam Wainwright again takes our annual recognition for the top hitting performance by a St. Louis Cardinals pitcher.

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Jaime Garcia Extends Cardinals Best Starting Streak Since 1993

The St. Louis Cardinals are working on run of five consecutive starts of seven innings allowing two or fewer runs.

On a day when St. Louis Cardinals second-guessers are out in force following Saturday afternoon-night’s exciting, yet ultimately disappointing 20-inning home loss to the New York Mets, I want to ensure an exceptional outing by 23-year-old left-hander Jaime Garcia is not lost.

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(Brief) History Of The Cardinals Allen Watson Award

Yesterday’s post announcing the Allen Watson Award of hitting excellence by a St. Louis Cardinals pitcher met with such wild, unrestrained interest, I was inspired to write part two of the story.

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Adam Wainwright Wins 2009 Allen Watson Award

Over the last month at Scout.com, we have been consumed with awards across the St. Louis Cardinals system with a new one each day and several more to go. They are the standard “best of” honors which you would expect for the best hitters and pitchers and the like. Others recognize top defenders as well.

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Checking The Numbers: Whiffing The Pitcher, Part Two

Earlier this month we took a look at pitcher-on-pitcher violence, computing the rates at which hurlers fan their counterparts and seeing how the results compared to overall strikeout rates. Two stats were introduced: PW%, which divides pitcher whiffs by pitcher plate appearances, and PWO%, the rate of whiffing pitchers as a measure of the overall tally.

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Todd Wellemeyer's Season Stacking Up Among Worst Ever

Earlier today, Ian Walton offered a very insightful analysis as to why Todd Wellemeyer should be bounced from the St. Louis Cardinals rotation in favor of Brad Thompson.

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DG's 10@10: Cardinals Collapsing Into Cliches

The St. Louis Cardinals showed a pulse offensively Tuesday night in Florida, but it still wasn’t enough as they failed to score more than three runs for the 12th time in 16 games. They have produced the fewest runs and the fewest baserunners in baseball since the beginning of May. They have the lowest on-base percentage (.276) this month in the National League.

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Pitchers Slugging PCT

In the eighth inning of a rather usual July game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cardinals closer Jason Isringhausen stepped into the box and faced Bucs lefty Joe Beimel. Isringhausen had come in to close out what was a 9-6 ballgame, but a turn of the lineup had put a bat in his hand with the bases loaded.

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Allen Watson Denies Jason Grimsley's PED Charge

Former Cardinals first-round pick Allen Watson challenged accusations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, sending out a statement through his attorney Friday. "At no time during my professional baseball career have I used steroids or any performance-enhancing drugs," Watson said in a statement sent to the Post-Dispatch and other media outlets. "Not then, not now, not ever."

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