GDT : Cards vs. Padres (7/25) ~ 6:15pm CDT

[82birds]

scouts watching
several contenders have to be salivating watching Helsley

at least several pitches on the black at 102

[cardstatman]

...Helsley rarely has a clean 1-2-3 inning... Always some drama. Same tonight, but SD couldn't take advantage... Cards win with a shutout, 3-0. Cards lookin' good. Have won the series, now go for the sweep. They might be buyers befoe the deadline after all...

4-game series

[Cusecards]

I’ll say this for Mikolas, there is no in between with him.
He is either awful or very solid.
No middle ground.
Keep it rolling. Deadline will be super interesting.

[Rosie's Rule]

Two more wins and they’re buyers at the deadline

[cbcloud]

...Helsley rarely has a clean 1-2-3 inning... Always some drama. Same tonight, but SD couldn't take advantage... Cards win with a shutout, 3-0. Cards lookin' good. Have won the series, now go for the sweep. They might be buyers befoe the deadline after all...

4-game series

...yeah, sweeping 4 is harder than winning just 3, but it can be done... Will be impressive if they do it...

[82birds]

Two more wins and they’re buyers at the deadline

which would be a mistake IMO

[cbcloud]

Two more wins and they're buyers at the deadline

...There are a few posters in CT that really don't want that to happen... Makes you wonder...

[12xu]

I’ll say this for Mikolas, there is no in between with him.
He is either awful or very solid.
No middle ground.
Keep it rolling. Deadline will be super interesting.

He pitched 5 strong innings tonight for certain.

[Rosie's Rule]

Agree 82 - trying to be funny but didn’t use the right emoji.
The funny thing is on paper this game looked like a sure win for the Pads with MM vs Pivetta.

What is puzzling is how poorly they played in CO vs how well they’ve played so far at home.

[dccardinal]

Doesn’t make ME wonder. There are plenty of reasons all over this board explaining why it makes sense. Me? I think it’d sure be nice to have an additional player or two next ST good enough to fight for a job that we got solely because we decided to sell this month.

[82birds]

I’ll say this for Mikolas, there is no in between with him.
He is either awful or very solid.
No middle ground.
Keep it rolling. Deadline will be super interesting.

lowered his ERA to 4.94

[Whatashame]

Who saw that coming!! Mikolas walking a tight rope all night and the Cardinals scraped together just enough offense to make it work. Great job by the bullpen.

[cbcloud]

I’ll say this for Mikolas, there is no in between with him.
He is either awful or very solid.
No middle ground.
Keep it rolling. Deadline will be super interesting.

He pitched 5 strong innings tonight for certain.

...and Oli had no hesitation in getting Mikolas out of there after a leadoff hit in the 6th... Possibly prevented some bad things happening there...

[Cusecards]

I’ll say this for Mikolas, there is no in between with him.
He is either awful or very solid.
No middle ground.
Keep it rolling. Deadline will be super interesting.

lowered his ERA to 4.94

He has had some of the worst starts in recent Cardinal memory.
Sadly...when he does pitch well we routinely don’t score.

[82birds]

Who saw that coming!! Mikolas walking a tight rope all night and the Cardinals scraped together just enough offense to make it work. Great job by the bullpen.

two nights in a row

[stlbirdlover]

Who saw that coming!! Mikolas walking a tight rope all night and the Cardinals scraped together just enough offense to make it work. Great job by the bullpen.

two nights in a row

Yeah and how many posters on here want to trade them away for unproven talent. Why not sign Maton and extend JoJo?