UCB Progressive Game Log – 6th Inning
It’s the 6th innning of the May 23rd game against the Kansas City Royals and the Cards pitching is on fire. The staff was solid April and then really struggled in early May only to bounce back with performances that Tony LaRussa called the best stretch of starting pitching that he has ever seen. Those are big words from a manager with so many wins in his career.
The 5th inning was covered nicely over at Redbird Chatter. Game was flying by at this time. The Cards had a 3-0 lead, but with the way Kyle Lohse was pitching, it seemed like a 8-0 lead.
Lohse had the top of the lineup coming up in the top of the 6th. Crisp and DeJesus were quickly retired with groundouts to second and short respectively. In the third spot, Billy Butler, singled to left and Lohse hit Guillen with the pitch. This put men on first and second, but Lohse got Teahen to ground out to short to end the small threat.
With another scoreless inning, the Cardinals have not given up a run to the Royals yet in this series, and only given up a total of 3 runs in the last 5 games. What a stretch!
Duncan, Stavinoha, and Molina are scheduled to come up in the bottom of the sixth. Duncan has really been struggling lately so I didn’t expect much. Stavinoha already produced a 2 run single earlier in the game. You really haven’t seen any multi hit games from Stavinoha, even though he has come up with some big hits to drive in runs recently. Molina hasn’t been tearing the cover off the ball, but he’s still hitting around .280.
The inning went as I expected it to. Duncan struck out looking. Stavinoha grounded out to short. Molina singled to right and Brian Barden followed up by lining out to center fielder, and former Cardinals prospect, Coco Crisp.
Not much excitement in the sixth. Lohse is throwing well and the bats did almost as expected this inning. The Cardinals pitching staff is exciting Cards fans around the country. How many more innings or games can they keep this streak going. Hopefully many more, but you just never know in this game.
Head over to The Cardinal Virtue to check out their perspective on the 7th inning.
Matt Wilson
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