“It’s a great team,” Suter told Milwaukee media. The Cards received many compliments from Milwaukee reliever Brent Suter. The Cardinals have won six in a row, are 8-1 in their last nine, and have lost only nine of their previous 26 games. (Followed by Flaherty on Wednesday, then either Lester or Mikolas on Thursday.)
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And then there’s Adam Wainwright, who will pitch the first game of the series tonight. Happ and Jon Lester, the return of Jack Flaherty from the IL, and the possibility of seeing Miles Mikolas, who could return from the IL this week. It sounds like we’re going to face a couple guys that are back from injury that are good pitchers, so it’ll definitely be a challenge.”Ĭounsell was referring to recently acquired starting pitchers J.A. They’re getting healthier, they made some trades for some veterans at the deadline in the rotation.
“I think the theme here is the frequency with which we play, and we’re going to become very familiar with them over the last six weeks,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell told media that cover his team. But if you wonder if the Brewers will view the Cardinals as a harmless nuisance, forget about it. The Brewers aren’t slowing down they’ve been 14-5 since late July and went 6-1 last week. The Brewers come into Busch with 51 wins in their last 75 games. The Cardinals have Milwaukee’s attention. If the next three games go poorly for the Cardinals, at least they’ll have a cushion for a soft landing. After Milwaukee goes away, the Cards will play nine of their next 11 games against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Louis, which has cut San Diego’s lead to four games, will try to fight off three excellent Milwaukee starting pitchers that are lined up to face them: Corbin Burnes, Freddy Peralta and Brandon Woodruff. If the Brewers can win a bunch of these games, the impact could wreck the Cardinals’ campaign for the NL’s second wild-card playoff spot. (That said: no objective person thinks the Cardinals will menace the Brewers in a serious way.) Louis being a threat to win the division. If the Crew can do no worse than win a fair share of games - say, six or seven out of 13 - they’ll hush any talk of St. And indeed, 29 percent of STL’s remaining 45 games will feature the Brewers as opponents.įrom the Milwaukee standpoint, the Brewers are in position to do a lot of damage to the Cards in the final weeks. For weeks we’ve been hearing Cardinals players talk about the opportunity to close the gap because of their frequent matchups against the Brewers.
If the Cardinals honestly believe that they still have a shot of overtaking Milwaukee, they’d better get after Milwaukee. The rivals open a three-game set at Busch Stadium on Tuesday night, and will face each other 10 times in September. The Cards hope to scissor Milwaukee’s lead during 13 head-to-head games between now and the end of the regular season. The Cardinals are chasing the Milwaukee Brewers, trailing the first-place Crew by 10 games in the NL Central.
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