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Roundtable Sports' John Denton discusses the Cardinals getting shut out a third time in the past eight games on Tuesday night -- a 7-0 loss to the rival Brewers.
A night after seeing a whopping 57 pitches of 100 mph or more from the electrifying right arm of Jacob Misiorowski, the Cardinals got nothing harder than 96.4 mph from Brewers’ lefty Kyle Harrison on Tuesday.
Unfortunately for them, they didn’t fare any better. In fact, they were actually worse at the plate in another unsightly shutout loss in Milwaukee.
Michael McGreevy surrendered a Jake Bauers homer and a two-run bases loaded double to William Contreras and reliever Ryan Fernandez gave up a 421-foot, three-run homer to Garrett Mitchell as the Brewers throttled the Cardinals 6-0 at American Family Field on Tuesday.
Offensively, the Cardinals didn’t fare any better against Harrison, who used a slow curve and a sneaky fastball to win his fifth straight game. St. Louis’ struggling offense, which sat down third baseman Nolan Gorman on Tuesday, managed just seven hits and was shut out for the third time in the past eight games. The Cardinals didn’t have an extra-base hit against Misiorowski Monday, and they had just seven singles on Tuesday against Harrison and three Brewers’ relievers.
“They’ve given us trouble and have done a nice job across the way – previous series (in St. Louis May 4-6) and here,” manager Oliver Marmol told Cardinals.TV. “The guy tonight (Harrison) was good, but I felt like we took some good at bats against him. We didn’t find grass and, all night, stuff right at people. But only two punchouts and we didn’t chase him around a lot and gave ourselves a decent look, but at the end of the day, we just couldn’t string a whole lot together against them.”
The only controversy came in the top of the eighth inning when Abner Uribe struck out Alec Burleson with two on and two out. After Burleson lost an ABS challenge, the Brewers reliever turned toward the Cardinals dugout and gestured twice toward his crotch.
After the game, Uribe told reporters that he was apologizing to his teammates, manager Pat Murphy and the Brewers’ organization, but he accused the Cardinals dugout for making gestures as if they were planning to hit Milwaukee batters in both Monday and Tuesday’s games.
Murphy told MLB.com: “It’s just unacceptable. I don’t know what got over him.”
“It looked like their team and Murph were handling it on their side,” Marmol said. “That’s their player and we’ll handle ours. But it seemed like they were taking care of it.”
McGreevy was taking care of the Brewers until the fourth inning when he left a cutter up that broke right into the swing of Bauers, who drove it 394 feet to break the scoreless tie. After dropping his pitching arm to his side, a disgusted McGreevy never even looked back, knowing the ball was a homer.
McGreevy, the Cardinals’ most consistent and reliable starter early in the season, didn’t retire a hitter in the fifth inning. After a Christian Yelich double and two walks, Contreras drove the first pitch he saw off the wall in right-center to plate two runs.
“The sinker wasn’t performing as well as it has in the past, so there’s something to that” said Marmol, referring to the pitch that Contreras blasted off the wall. “(McGreevy) put himself in a situation where he walks a couple of guys and has to come over the plate and Contreras made him pay. So, that was unfortunate.”
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Ryan Fernandez, who was promoted from Triple-A earlier in the day, used a good slider to fan Bauers. But he left a slider up to Mitchell, who drilled it high off the wall beyond the center field fence.
Rookie Bryan Torres was the only Cardinals player with multiple hits. The Cards were 0 for 5 with runners in scoring position and they didn’t have a runner reach third base in the game.
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A night after seeing a whopping 57 pitches of 100 mph or more from the electrifying right arm of Jacob Misiorowski, the Cardinals got nothing harder than 96.4 mph from Brewers’ lefty Kyle Harrison on Tuesday.
Unfortunately for them, they didn’t fare any better. In fact, they were actually worse at the plate in another unsightly shutout loss in Milwaukee.
Michael McGreevy surrendered a Jake Bauers homer and a two-run bases loaded double to William Contreras and reliever Ryan Fernandez gave up a 421-foot, three-run homer to Garrett Mitchell as the Brewers throttled the Cardinals 6-0 at American Family Field on Tuesday.
Offensively, the Cardinals didn’t fare any better against Harrison, who used a slow curve and a sneaky fastball to win his fifth straight game. St. Louis’ struggling offense, which sat down third baseman Nolan Gorman on Tuesday, managed just seven hits and was shut out for the third time in the past eight games. The Cardinals didn’t have an extra-base hit against Misiorowski Monday, and they had just seven singles on Tuesday against Harrison and three Brewers’ relievers.
“They’ve given us trouble and have done a nice job across the way – previous series (in St. Louis May 4-6) and here,” manager Oliver Marmol told Cardinals.TV. “The guy tonight (Harrison) was good, but I felt like we took some good at bats against him. We didn’t find grass and, all night, stuff right at people. But only two punchouts and we didn’t chase him around a lot and gave ourselves a decent look, but at the end of the day, we just couldn’t string a whole lot together against them.”
The only controversy came in the top of the eighth inning when Abner Uribe struck out Alec Burleson with two on and two out. After Burleson lost an ABS challenge, the Brewers reliever turned toward the Cardinals dugout and gestured twice toward his crotch.
After the game, Uribe told reporters that he was apologizing to his teammates, manager Pat Murphy and the Brewers’ organization, but he accused the Cardinals dugout for making gestures as if they were planning to hit Milwaukee batters in both Monday and Tuesday’s games.
Murphy told MLB.com: “It’s just unacceptable. I don’t know what got over him.”
“It looked like their team and Murph were handling it on their side,” Marmol said. “That’s their player and we’ll handle ours. But it seemed like they were taking care of it.”
McGreevy made to pay for leaving pitches up
McGreevy was taking care of the Brewers until the fourth inning when he left a cutter up that broke right into the swing of Bauers, who drove it 394 feet to break the scoreless tie. After dropping his pitching arm to his side, a disgusted McGreevy never even looked back, knowing the ball was a homer.
McGreevy, the Cardinals’ most consistent and reliable starter early in the season, didn’t retire a hitter in the fifth inning. After a Christian Yelich double and two walks, Contreras drove the first pitch he saw off the wall in right-center to plate two runs.
“The sinker wasn’t performing as well as it has in the past, so there’s something to that” said Marmol, referring to the pitch that Contreras blasted off the wall. “(McGreevy) put himself in a situation where he walks a couple of guys and has to come over the plate and Contreras made him pay. So, that was unfortunate.”
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Ryan Fernandez, who was promoted from Triple-A earlier in the day, used a good slider to fan Bauers. But he left a slider up to Mitchell, who drilled it high off the wall beyond the center field fence.
Rookie Bryan Torres was the only Cardinals player with multiple hits. The Cards were 0 for 5 with runners in scoring position and they didn’t have a runner reach third base in the game.
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