Locked On Cardinals - Daily Podcast On The St. Louis Cardinals - Cardinals Get Swept In Queens

Starting point is 00:00:00 Rough weekend in New York as the St. Louis Cardinals get out hit, outpitched, and swept by the New York Mets. But why is everyone shocked by this outcome? This is Locked on Cardinals. You are Locked on Cardinals. Your daily St. Louis Cardinals podcast, part of the Locked on Podcasts network. Your team every day. Hey there, Carlis fans. I'm Jady Hafford and I'm your host for Lockdown Cardinals. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network covering your team every day. You can follow me on X at JD Sports Radio and you can follow the podcast at L.O underscore Cardinals. We're on YouTube.

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Starting point is 00:01:27 And I hope whatever you did on Sunday was a better experience than how things went for the Cardinals. over the last four days in New York, where they lost four in a row to the bets after falling on Sunday by a square of seven to four, you know, after their four and two homestown,

Starting point is 00:01:47 where they won series against teams that are better than them on paper, right? Phillies, Astros, people were excited about it. I was excited about it. We like winning. Of course, we like winning. That's cool. It's fun. But the boys came crashing back to Earth in New York,

Starting point is 00:02:04 where they were just to be blatantly honest, beat by a better team. And I know the easy thing to do is, you know, point at the payrolls, whine about how the Mets are spending all this money and the Cardinals aren't doing that right now. But that's really just an excuse, isn't it? You know, the truth is the Mets are a better ball club in every way possible. no matter how they constructed their roster, whether it was drafting and, you know, bringing up prospects, you know, actually putting some stuff together in the minor leagues and making them better players, whether it was going out and buying people through free agency or making trades, whatever it was, whatever they did to construct their roster. they have built a better baseball team in Flushing, New York, than what we have in St. Louis, Missouri right now.

Starting point is 00:03:05 And that's how it was going into the series. They've got a better rotation. They've got a better bullpen. They've got better hitters overall one through nine. I'm sure you could pick one or two guys that are on the Cardinals that would supplant somebody at the bottom of their order. But, you know, they've got more star power. they've got more attitude as they should.

Starting point is 00:03:29 So to see the Cardinals lose four straight to the bets, it's not necessarily shocking that it happened. Losing four in a row to anyone is not normal. It's not a difficult thing. It's not, I should say, it is a difficult thing to do to beat another team four times in a row. It just doesn't happen all that often. In fact, this had to happen against the Mets since 1986,

Starting point is 00:03:54 almost 40 years ago. But that's what happened. So let's just start with Sunday. You know, and this is the thing. It's like I'm not going to flip out like everybody wants or thinks that I will because the Cardinals just got swept four games in a row by the Mets. I'm not. I mean, they're supposed to do that to the Cardinals, right?

Starting point is 00:04:18 The Cardinals are one of these teams that is picked to be one of the bottom tier teams and all of Ace fall at the end of the season. The Mets are not. The Mets are our pick to do quite well. So they're supposed to come out and beat the Cardinals. And when the Cardinals surprise us and beat teams like the Astros and the Phillies, it kind of gives you a little bit of false hope that, okay, maybe we're not as bad as everybody thinks we are.

Starting point is 00:04:42 And I don't think we're as bad. I don't think the Cardinals are as bad a team. But the results are the results. So again, let's start with Sunday where the Cardinals had their top starter, Sunny Gray. on the mound against Clay Holmes. And the overall numbers for Sunny, they're not bad. You know, six innings, three hits or three run, six hits, six strikeouts against that

Starting point is 00:05:02 lineup. That's pretty good. You give a quality start. Not a whole lot more you can ask from a starting pitcher against this Mets lineup, which is really, really good. Now you do get another home run hit off of them first batter in the game, puts the birds in a hole right away, the lead off theinger by Lindor. pitch was up in the zone. We all know.

Starting point is 00:05:25 It's like a broken record. We all know. Sunny Gray can't pitch up in the zone. He's up in the zone. He's going to get popped. And Lindor popped him right away. First batter of the game. Can't live there. But overall, this was not like some really crappy start from Sunny Gray. It's not like he didn't put up a good fight or give the boys a chance to win. He did. And Sunny has been really good outside of the game against the Angels. where he was pitching really, really well, and then one bad pitch burdened him on that grand slam. The last three games, 18 innings, 4 under runs, 14 strikeouts.

Starting point is 00:06:03 Hard to complain about those numbers. I mean, you're not going to be like, ooh, he sucks. No, you're not. Like, that's not bad. And that's against, you know, I think of the Phillies and the Mets for two of those games. So you're all right with that for Sunny. And Sunny remains undefeated. Still hasn't been given a loss yet this year because the Cardinals were able to tie things up in the seventh inning on Sunday.

Starting point is 00:06:29 But the bullpen, which was so good last year, couldn't hold the Mets back. Jojo Romero whiffs that first hitter, but gives up that. And there were, again, I don't want to make excuses, but a couple of soft contact hits there where you're just like, I mean, what do you want me to do? You know, the swinging butt from Lindor. Like nobody's prepared for that to happen. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good. So he gets on base, nothing you can do about it.

Starting point is 00:06:59 Walk Soto and a very non-competitive at bat. Like Romero didn't want anything to do with him. But that puts a guy in scoring position. So now you got first and second. Ali goes to Maton, who continues to be really good. He gets the strike out of Alonzo, huge, right? And you're like, oh, maybe we can get out of this. but the lefty Brandon Nimmo who had two big plays in this game finds a hole on the ground ball up the middle.

Starting point is 00:07:26 And it was kind of funny because it seems like it always happens right, right? Like where the pitcher ball comes back up the middle. And if he goes for it, he deflects it, where the fielder who would have been behind him would have made the play very easily, right? So this time, Mayton like kind of moves his glove towards the ball. And then at the last second, it's like, nope, I don't want to hit it. And it still finds hole. So I'm not sure if he could have actually knocked it down. Maybe he could have.

Starting point is 00:07:51 But doesn't matter. Curve ball was up in the zone too much, found some space, gets into the outfield, makes it four to three. Then the Ryan Fernandez experience continued with the Cardinals still down. Just one out. He gets some top luck right away when Luis Anel Acuna hits an infield double. That's right. I didn't just make that up.

Starting point is 00:08:17 infield double, a play that you do not see very often. It's a slow chopper over to the left side of the infield towards the hole between short and third. Nolan Gorman playing third base today instead of Aronado, who had a scheduled day off, gives it the do-or-die bare-hand attempt that we see Aronado pull off so effortlessly all the time and we take it for granted that, oh, no big deal, easy play. It's not an easy play. And it gets under Gorman's hand.

Starting point is 00:08:47 And goes past him, but also at the same time, Thomas C.C., he's playing shortstop. He's coming in at the same time. And he fails to kind of slow down to keep the ball on the infield to knock it down. So it gets by Gorman. It gets by Sejacy. And Acuna has excellent speed. And he gets a double on a ground ball. They just rolled through the infield into the outfield grass.

Starting point is 00:09:15 Hit the ball three feet. That's three feet and got a double. That's silly stuff. He then whiffs Beatty. Fernandez does. Whiffs baitie. And then he ends up sawing off Tyrone Taylor. But when things aren't going your way,

Starting point is 00:09:30 crap like this happens. This is baseball. It gets over the head of Burleson by what, like a foot maybe, like wasn't hit hard, bloop double, whopping with 56.7 miles per hour off the bat to make it five to three.

Starting point is 00:09:46 and then it snows ball snowballs from there he walks the number nine hitter on four straight pitches which is a huge no-no because guess what on the other side of that number nine hitter is three of the best hitters on the planet gets lindore to ground out sharply to shortstop nice played by say jacy gets the out of second base but that brings up soto and soda is going to win those battles against ryan fernandez smokes a hanging slider into the gap into left center that makes it 73 seven to three and basically it's over, right? Part of me, a very small part of me, but part of me does feel a little bit bad for Fernandez because he made some good pitches in this outing. He really did. First two hits against him, not hit hard, just well placed, you know,

Starting point is 00:10:35 bummer placement, you know? But he compounds the issue with a walk to the number nine hitter and then Soto burns him. Fernandez's ERA is now at a last, 11.25. It is terrible. And in the series against the Mets, he got tagged for four runs on four hits, had one strikeout and one inning of work. And this was a guy who, remember coming into spring training and even coming out of spring training, you're thinking that this is going to be one of the solid guys that you can trust at the back end of your bullpen for situations just like

Starting point is 00:11:09 Sunday, where you're trying to hang on to a lead here and you're trying to keep it as close as possible, keep it within a run so that, you know, you still have a pretty decent chance of tying this up or maybe taking the lead. But so far, it just has not worked out for Ryan Fernandez. My biggest concern about this is the lack of strikeouts. Last year, 71Ks and 66 and two-thirds innings, nothing crazy, but solid, right?

Starting point is 00:11:34 This year he's got five in 10 appearances. He's allowed 14 hits in just eight innings of work, and opponents are earning 378 against him. He's just not missing bats. Not like he did last year when he was the rule five pick and you had to keep him on the roster. Now that's no longer the case. And I wonder how much runway, since that's the cool term we're using now,

Starting point is 00:12:02 they're going to give Fernas before it's like, all right, well, let's get him right. Let's send him down and get him right in Memphis and bring somebody else up like, I don't know, like a Riley O'Brien or something, just something. somebody else to step in and see what they can do until Fernandez can get right, because clearly he's not, and the numbers are showing that. But the Cardinals pitching overall wasn't really the big issue in the series. I know I talk about it today because, you know, they end up scoring seven runs,

Starting point is 00:12:31 but it really was the lack of hitting by this offense over this four-game series that was really the shocking part of it all. And we're going to dive into those numbers next because I don't think the blame is completely on just the St. Louis Cardinals hitters. So we'll get into it next on Locked on Cardinals. Scaling your business requires the right expertise at the right time. And with Upwork, you can find specialized freelancers in marketing, development, design, and more experts ready to help you take your business to the next level. Now, Upwork gives businesses flexibility by connecting them with top freelance talent across multiple industries. We're talking about IT.

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Starting point is 00:14:19 They didn't score. They must suck. They must not be very good at their jobs. You know, everything that Bram Brown and this team has accomplished over the first few weeks must be a mirage, must have been a magic trick. They're terrible. And the trolls are starting to talk smack.

Starting point is 00:14:36 And you're going to see it on the message boards and in the comments. And if you're a fan, just ignore it. They've been because the guy, okay, these guys and gals, I'm sure too, they've been doing this online, the whole series. And what my comeback to them is always, I don't really show them a lot of attention. If you're going to be one of those guys or girls and trolls, I'm not, specifically when you say dumb things. Like, I'm not going to start a fight, a war of words with you online. It's not going to happen. and you're not going to bait me into doing it.

Starting point is 00:15:16 But even the biggest of trolls has to acknowledge the fact that before this series began, the Cardinals had been one of the most impressive offenses in baseball. Surprisingly, one of the more impressive offenses in baseball. The stats prove it. You can't tell me that they weren't. You know, they were doing almost everything well. You were seeing the great abats. You were seeing clutch hits.

Starting point is 00:15:41 You were seeing some home runs. You were watching them take walk. the OBP through the roof, right? It was a thing of beauty because your roster in this lineup is not the most talented roster in Major League Baseball. You don't look at the hitters one through nine and go, that's one of the top five hitting teams in baseball for sure. You don't.

Starting point is 00:16:04 But yet there they were, proving everybody wrong and, you know, making us believe in what was going on and what Bram Brown is teaching. And this series, I'm not going to say they took a lot of bat at bats or anything like that, but you just didn't see the same amount of success. And you saw a lot of strikeouts and you saw a lot of failures with runners in scoring position, something we were very much used to in 2024. So far this year, it's been a whole lot better. You know, Thursday they lose four to one.

Starting point is 00:16:35 Gripping Canning dominates them. Cardinals go three for 30 in the game, 11 strikeouts. They walk four times. one for four with runners in scoring position because it couldn't get anybody in scoring position. Friday you get the, I don't want to say heartbreaking loss. It wasn't heartbreaking, but it was a tough one because Donnie's home run and tied things up late in the ninth and just go on to lose it five to four right away. They're eight for 35 in that particular game.

Starting point is 00:17:02 Fifteen strikeouts, they don't walk once, none. Three for six with runners in scoring position. Obviously, he's very good. Saturday shutout three to nothing. They're three for 29. Six more strikeouts, five walks, O for eight with runners in scoring position. And then on Sunday they lose seven to four,

Starting point is 00:17:21 eight for 35 again at the plate, 11 strikeouts, three walks, two for nine with runners in scoring position. So I did the math for you, and I'm sure you can double check me because I'm not great at math. I didn't use a calculator. It's not like I did this on a piece of paper with a pencil.

Starting point is 00:17:38 I didn't use a number two pencil or a scan tron sheet or anything like that. But my numbers have them as 22 for 129 in the series. That would be a 171 batting average for the series, okay? Obviously, that's awful. 43 strikeouts. They struck out 33% of the time.

Starting point is 00:17:56 That is awful. 12 walks, not enough. They go six for 27 with runners in scoring position. That's a 222 batting average, not nearly good enough. In hole, it's horrendous. right not only compared to what we've seen so far this year but just horrendous in general anybody who goes out there and does that for four games is having a tough time at the plate and it all starts with your lead off hitter Lars New Park because when he's going this offense goes

Starting point is 00:18:28 pretty darn good he's the key cog in the machine at the top of the order and if he's not the on base guy that we know he can be the engine tends to stall for the Cardinals' offense. He was one for 12 in the series and two walks. Didn't get his hit until I think it was his last at bat. So you can see why there was an issue. He wasn't contributing much in this series. Gorman, one for 11, four strikeouts look completely lost against Singon.

Starting point is 00:18:59 Saturday. Pahez, one for two, one for ten, six strikeouts. Jordan Walker gets robbed of a home run on Sunday, which obviously you saw the frustration with him spiking the helmet. left-fielder Brandon Nemo who got the go-ahead RBI single, and then he robs the home run earlier in the game. Those were the two big plays on Sunday. But Jordan Walker, one for 12, seven strikeouts.

Starting point is 00:19:20 Victor Scott, the second, one for 11. Young guys, future pieces of this franchise. So as we warned you before, peaks in valleys, peaks and valleys. It's going to happen this year. But not much production out of all of those guys. and a lot of them came up in big spots and couldn't get the job done, couldn't move runners over, just couldn't put the ball in play, struck out a lot. And the easy thing, like I said, is to just kind of blame the Cardinals hitters, you know,

Starting point is 00:19:48 overrated, they suck, you know, even though none of you trolls were saying that this was a sucky offense or anything like that until after this weekend, they picked their battles so well, don't they? But let's not forget as well, as much as the Cardinals did struggle. And they did. I'm not letting them off the hook. But, you know, there is a guy on the mound for the other team wearing a different uniform. And their job is to get the Cardinal hitters out.

Starting point is 00:20:17 They're not just up there throwing BP in soft tossing and hoping for the best. No, they're doing a job as well, the job that they're getting paid handsomely to do. The Mets pitching staff, as I mentioned before the series began, is one of the best staffs in baseball. And they're still shorthanded. They still don't have Sean Mania. or Frankie Montas,

Starting point is 00:20:38 but they've still got crazy good numbers so far this year. And you can be mad at the Cardinals hitters if you want. I'm not saying you can't be, but you must acknowledge at least the fact that, hey, perhaps the Mets pitching staff pretty darn good as well. It's not like you were going up against some below average pitching staff and that you're like, how are they not hitting these guys? These guys are good.

Starting point is 00:21:05 They're starting pitchers allowed just five earned runs. of the series of 23 eddings. Three of those came off of Peterson on Friday. He struck out nine in that game. Canning was blowing guys away in that first game. Senga's ERA on the season is 0.79. He hasn't only faced the Cardinals. He's faced some other teams, and they couldn't head him either.

Starting point is 00:21:30 Holmes on Sunday just wanted to run in six innings. He's been somebody that they've been talking about. He had like, like, one bad game. I think his first game of the season was kind of, oh, and everything else has been really, really good. And Ali said after the game that the, you know, the team just, Cardinals just have to be better, which is true. But the Mets pitching staff is pretty awesome. And their offense came up with clutch hits time and time again. Well, the Cardinals didn't.

Starting point is 00:21:59 The better team won each day. There was never a time where I'm like, you know, the Cardinals are out playing the Mets today. It never happened in any of the games. So I'm not going to sit here and pretend that the Cardinals just got swept on the road by some inferior team in the league. They should have walked all over because that's not what happened. The Mets have the second highest payroll in the league behind the Dodgers. They are built to win now.

Starting point is 00:22:31 They have World Series aspirations. The Cardinals are on the other side of the spectrum right now. they have scaled things back financially. They are building for the future. They're trying to get things going better. They're trying to get their development better. And at the same time, trying to remain competitive in the NL Central. You know, a good season for the Cardinals this year, you know, considering everything that

Starting point is 00:22:58 they're doing is 500, which I know sucks because the goal should be to win a world series. To be the best, go get the best guys, do the best you can and go. but they need this year to transition. That's what they're doing. So it's two teams in two very different spots. Since sweeping the twins in the opening series at home, the Cardinals are six and 13. Do I think they're that bad of a team that they should be six and 13?

Starting point is 00:23:25 I do not. But they're one and nine on the road, and that's really, really bad. I think they're better than what we're seeing. And I know moral, victories don't really count for much. You know, people will be like, they were saying that online about the blues. And I, you know, people were saying, well, the blues played pretty good and just kind of ran out of gas at the end of the game.

Starting point is 00:23:48 And moral victories are useless. Who cares? Playoffs are a different story. This is regular season of baseball in April still. But it's not like they got blown out every game by the Mets. They were decently competitive games. But still O and four, right? Still bad. Still bad. And what we hope is that these kids will use this series, getting swept, taking that nasty sweet bill, and being like, this tastes terrible.

Starting point is 00:24:20 And use it as a teaching moment to get better for later on down the road. And of course, their next series, which will be against the Atlanta Braves. And it wasn't all bad in New York. I know I was sounding like a Debbie Downer here and I'm picking things apart, but they lost four games in a row. It's hard to find a lot of good in that, but there were some highlights. There were some good things that did happen in this series, including the Thomas and J.C. Canundrum. I want to get into that coming up next on Locked on Cardinals. Get the supplies you need from the site made for the skilled trades. Supply house, whether you're in plumbing, HVAC or Electrical Works, supply house is the reliable way to order products online.

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Starting point is 00:26:46 And then I'm sure he was back on the train to Memphis. But eight days later, Jason Wend goes down. So, so J.C. sticks around even further. And the kids getting it done, man. The results have been tremendous. On Sunday, he's one for five, but hits the game time to run double in the seventh. He's hitting 400 on the season so far with one home run, that mammoth shot. in Boston that cleared the stadium.

Starting point is 00:27:12 Seven RBIs, and he's doing it all in just 35 at bats. He's been really good at the plate. He's done, I'm going to say, an admirable job in the field, but we know what Thomas and J.C. strong points are, and it's his office. That's the best thing about him. So how on earth people are wondering, is Thomas and J.C. hitting 400 going to get sent down to Memphis

Starting point is 00:27:36 when Mason Winn gets activated, probably on Monday. And the answer is simple, and you're not going to like it. The answer is where is he going to play more? Remember how we talked about all that Victor Scott stuff in the offseason? And we're like, well, if they're not going to use him as a starter every day, then you've got to let him go play. Well, they decided that Victor Scott has won the starting center field job,

Starting point is 00:28:04 and he was going to play every day. Great. And he's been in there. More times than not. The Cardinals have never hidden the fact that they want Nolan Gorman to play. And you can be upset about his production and the strikeouts, and I get it. But they're going to give him a chance to work his way out of it. He's coming back from the hamstring injury.

Starting point is 00:28:27 He was hitting the ball pretty good before he got hurt. So it's kind of sucky that he had this hiccup. But they've said it from the beginning that he's not going to be just a bench bat for them. like Luke and Baker is. He's not going to be a defensive filling like Michael Siani has been. They won him playing almost every day.

Starting point is 00:28:48 And they want to know what they got in Nolan Gorman. And if you keep Sajisi and demote say Sianni, which has been brought up before, you've still created a logjam on the infield where either Gorman or Sajisi is going to be on the bench more times than not. and they don't want that. It's not good for the development of the players.

Starting point is 00:29:16 Nolan Gorman has got seniority here, and they want this year to be a year where they find out what Nolan Gorman is. Thomas and Jaycey, they're in no hurry. They like what they see, obviously. He's getting the job done. But this really kind of all goes back to not being able to trade Nolan Arnano out of this offseason.

Starting point is 00:29:34 If he's not around, this is maybe on this team for good, and he's playing every day, but that's not the case. So, he's warning you, be prepared if Thomas and Jacey gets sent back to Memphis so he can play every day and be on call for the next injury or the next opening, whatever it may be. Brennan Donovan had another hit on Sunday, and even though that hit streak was snapped with the O for four on Saturday, four hits in the series, including the Cardinals' only home run. He's now betting 356, which still leads the National League last time I checked, and is third

Starting point is 00:30:07 and all of baseball behind Aaron Judge at 390. And get ready for it. That's right. Paul Goldschmidt is hitting 361. The Yankees, he's second in the league and heading right now. He's only got one home run in seven RBIs, but he's hitting 361. He's enjoying his time in the Penn Stripes in New York. We all kind of predicted that he's probably going to hit fine when he gets there.

Starting point is 00:30:33 But it is what it is. No use in crying over it now. Wilson Contreras, who has been mitered in that slump ever since camp broke for for his last 11 Cardinals obviously really need him to come to life finally because when some of these guys like Newpar and Aronado and some of these guys start going cold, these guys who are cold need to start heating up. You know, you've got to find that balance there to pick up where the other guys are falling off at. And hopefully we're starting to see Willie turn a corner here. Matthew Libertor had another encouraging start.

Starting point is 00:31:07 Although we took a loss on Saturday, six and two-thirds innings, almost got through seven, allowed two runs on six, struck out six. His last three starts, he's got strikeout totals of seven, seven, and six. He's giving up two earned runs at his last 12 and two-thirds innings. I hope it keeps going. I hope it keeps going. I like that he seemingly is getting more and more competent,

Starting point is 00:31:29 trusting his stuff, and getting right-handers out better. That was the big key. We know he can get out lefties. Can he get out the right-handers? And he's figuring out ways to be better at that. So great progress there. As far as the NL Central goes, the Cardinals are now 9 and 13. So they're only ahead of the pirates right now who are 8 and 15.

Starting point is 00:31:49 The Reds destroyed Baltimore on Sunday, 24 to 2. They're 11 and 11. The Brewers crush the A's 14 to 1. They're 12 and 10. And then the Cubs are in first place at 14 and 10, but they've been playing some really, really tough teams and still have a 14 and 10 record, lost to the debacks and extra innings of Wrigley on Sunday. So Cardinals are four games back, head to Atlanta to face a Braves team that is 8 and 13.

Starting point is 00:32:13 And you see that and you're like, oh, so they're not any good? They had a tough start for sure, but they've won three in a row and are six and two at home. Cardinals are 1 and 9 on the road. That doesn't match up very well. Eric Fetty will get the start. He's been pitching very, very well. So hopefully the bats will wake up even more. It won't be an easy though.

Starting point is 00:32:34 Spencer Schwellenbach, a nice young pitcher for the ball. Braves will be on the mound. So it ain't going to be easy. And, you know, just like this Met series, you go into it saying, hey, I want to win a game or two of this series, but I'm not supposed to. The Braves are a better team on paper and stuff. So we'll see what happens, though. That's why they play the games. Thanks for making Locked on Cardinals for first listen every day. Be having already. Give us follow on X at L.O underscore Cardinals and a JD Sports Radio. TikTok and Instagram and Locked on Cardinals. Lock, like and subscribe on YouTube to help our channel and love for the Cardinals grow.

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