Locked On Cardinals - Daily Podcast On The St. Louis Cardinals - MISSED OPPORTUNITIES: Cardinals STRUGGLE With Runners On -- Riley O'Brien's ISSUES Continue

Starting point is 00:00:00 An all too familiar problem rears its ugly head again as the Cardinals drop their series against the Texas Rangers. This is Locked on Cardinals. You are locked on Cardinals. Your daily St. Louis Cardinals podcast, part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Hey there, Cardinals fans. I'm J.D. Hafer and on today's show, the offensively star of Cardinals have what appears to be a budding superstar at Memphis who continues to break. So we'll be talking about him. We'll dive into. to more of the Nolan Gorman stuff, like how long are the Cardinals going to stick with them? We got an answer to that from manager Ali Marmal. We'll talk a little bit about Victor Scott.

Starting point is 00:00:46 We've got some Riley O'Brien issues to get through now. Yeah, it's tough to go right now for the Cardinals, man. They're really fighting it in a lot of different areas. But let's just start with the game on Tuesday night, which was another frustrating loss that had multiple moments of sloppiness and mistakes. ended up costing the Cardinals in what became a seven to four lost to Texas, who is now won five in a row and are right back into things in the AOS, despite being without a lot of their offensive stars. So it's not like the Cardinals are doing this against a team that is not playing well.

Starting point is 00:01:20 They are a team that has been much better recently. The Rangers are now two and a half back of the Seattle Mariners in the A.O. West and they're one game back at the 500 mark. So they played a lot better recently. and the Cardinals just happened to be in the middle of that right now because they're not playing well. They're not looking like the team that we saw over the first, you know, two months of the season.

Starting point is 00:01:48 Like things have gone in a different direction. I don't want to say they're a really bad team, but they're just kind of meh right now. And I think one of the more frustrating things about losing to the Rangers right now, again, who are playing well, But it's be, they're losing and getting beat by guys that that aren't their stars. So it's not a Corey Seeger. It's not a Wyatt Langford.

Starting point is 00:02:12 Instead, it's, it's guys like Jack Peterson and Nikki Lopez and Kyle Higachioca, who are doing the damage and beating the Cardinals, which it's frustrating when that happens. You know, when you got star power and you go up against schemes that have a lot of well-known guys, you expect those people to do pretty well, but you got to be able to take care of. of the, you know, lesser names that are in the lineup. And Texas is getting production from everybody. And that's how they're beating the Cardinals right now. And I know things got ugly late because of Riley O'Brien.

Starting point is 00:02:47 We are going to talk about the pitching here in a bit. But this loss in my mind really comes down to the same issue that has haunted this team all season long. And that's the inability to hit with runners in scoring position. They didn't have a lot of chances on Monday. And the ones they did get, they didn't do. anything with anyway. They squandered them. But on Tuesday night, there were base runners all over the place for the Cardinals, tons of opportunities to score. And they just kept coming up empty again.

Starting point is 00:03:16 You know, Tuesday night, the team is three for 14 with runners in scoring position. They stranded 11 guys on base. They are hitting 222 on the season with runners in scoring position, which is now tied with the Cubs for dead last in all of baseball. Like, this is an epidemic going on with this team right now that they just cannot seem to come up with the big hit. Second inning, they get on the board first after a lead off walk to Brian Torres. You get a single by Mason win, Gorman, who's been in a massive funk, predictably strikes out. But then you get an RBI single by Jimmy Crooks, one of the new faces that they have brought up from Memphis. The new old faces, because we got to see a little bit of them last year.

Starting point is 00:03:54 But he comes up and hits a flare down the right field line, one nothing. Crook's first RBI since being called up. Yay. Offense. It's first and third with one out and Victor Scott at the dish. And instead of swinging away to try and drive in a run, whether it be with a, you know, a weak rounder, a sack fly, a number of different ways that you can do it.

Starting point is 00:04:18 And try to get to a bigger inning, you know, and try to really put a crooked number up there. Instead, he lays down a sack punt. Crooks move to second base. Okay. But when was on third base, didn't like whatever he saw and didn't break to go home. And he's probably out if he goes home anyway.

Starting point is 00:04:37 So he probably made the right call. But now you got two down and JJ up at the plate, grounds out to end the threat. But you're just giving them an out with the sack punt when you already have a dude in scoring position over at third base. Like I did not like that punt right there. Now, if it had been first and second maybe, even then I'm like, you got to let Victor swing away in that situation.

Starting point is 00:05:01 I mean, I don't know if it was on him. I don't know if that was a call from the dugout, but I hated that button right there. Then in the fourth inning, a solid moment for Nolan Gorman, who hits an opposite field home run to make it two to nothing good guys, which, come on. I mean, I know that we're all frustrated with the way Nolan,

Starting point is 00:05:18 Nolan's been going. He's frustrated everybody as we get it. But you got to be happy for the guy. You want to see him succeed. Nobody's rooting against him, like actively saying, I hope Gorman sucks today. And we can move on from him because I don't think that there's really not. Blaise Jordan is not the guy yet.

Starting point is 00:05:38 He's having a good time at Memphis so far, but he plays primarily first base. He's not really a third baseman. So you really want to see Gorman get out of this thing. And we discussed Gorman in depth in yesterday's episode, mired in this awful hitting slump that had fans questioning whether or not he should be playing as much as he does. Moving forward when the team gets healthier. But that is not going to be the case. Sally has told reporters that the team is committed to giving him the opportunity to work his way out of this slump that he's in.

Starting point is 00:06:04 He said all of the things that we talk about when he's doing well, less chase, more contact. You know, those are things that need to take place in order to get him back on track. He's still walking at an 11% clip or so. Opportunity is being given at the moment. So perhaps that hushes the crowd that is demanding his benching for a bit. The home run certainly helps. You know, Derek Gould expanded on Gorman's issue saying it's all about making more consistent contact. That's really the bottom line here.

Starting point is 00:06:38 And a lot of that has to do with his bat path. The longer he is able to level his swing through the strike zone, the better chance he has. When Gorman's swing enters the zone at an angle, his timing has to be precise to make the most of his natural power, and then he becomes vulnerable to pitches in specific areas. The off-speed pitch has been his biggest enemy. And if you've been watching the games, you've seen it.

Starting point is 00:06:59 I don't need to give you the stats. The I test tells you that he sucks and off-speed pitches this season. But I'll give you the stats anyway, and they're gross. He's hitting 60, 60 against off-speed pitches this season and has a 51.4% width percentage. 51.4. So for now, Gorman and his inability to hit off-speed pitches isn't going anywhere. He's got to learn to do it. and the Cardinals are going to keep plugging them out there

Starting point is 00:07:32 until he figures it out, or they get healthy enough where they have no other choices and they just have to move on. And there's nothing else to do. But yeah, clock's ticking there, brother. Like we've got to get this figured out. The Cardinals would continue to threaten after the Gorman home run, two out singles by Victor and JJ,

Starting point is 00:07:53 but then Herrera Grounds out ends that threat. But it was later in the game where, It really was a really frustrating night when the Cardinals were mounting the comeback. You know, when things got, it got really rough late. We're going to talk about those situations. We're also going to get into the pitching side of things from last night's game because pitching wasn't so bad until it was bad. So we'll talk about all of this coming up next on Lockdown Cardinals.

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Starting point is 00:09:51 You can click the link in the show notes or head over to locked on SCLcardinals. com to claim your free trial. So the Rangers were able to get Dustin May. I want to stick with the offense here for a minute. The Rangers were able to get to Dustin May in the fifth and sixth innings. They're up four to two in that seventh inning when the top of the Cardinals lineup starts to put it together. They go single. You get the O2 hit by pitch on Ivan Herrera.

Starting point is 00:10:17 Thank you very much. And then you get a double and a single to tie it up. You took advantage of the hit by pitch. The RBI single by Jordan Walker ended what was a seven consecutive strikeout streak for the big man who, for whatever reason, all of a sudden, he just wouldn't see him the ball well. while it was chasing things. All of a sudden, he was like, whoa, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no. Jordan, calm down, calm, no, no.

Starting point is 00:10:38 Just reel it back in, brother. Real a back in. And he finally does and breaks that streak up. And you can see him like, gosh, finally. But seven straight strikeouts in a row for Jordan, not exactly what you want to see from your clean-out pitter. But he comes through in this situation. So all is forgiven, right?

Starting point is 00:10:56 So now you got it first and third. There is nobody out here in this inning. All right? First and third, nobody out. Cardinals have tied this game up. They come back from 4 to 2, and now they're ready to take the lead. They've snatched the momentum back.

Starting point is 00:11:10 They appear to be ready to kind of bury the Rangers. They knocky ball the out. We got to get it in, right? You've got to be able to get at least one run in, and they don't. They don't. Instead, Pincheter Nelson Velasquez and Mason win both go down swinging on fastballs up in their eyes,

Starting point is 00:11:28 way up and out of the strike zone, which is a sign of, for me, just being too eager at the plate. And then Jose Fermin comes up. He's pinch hitting and he stings one to left field, but it's caught, you know, good positioning out there in left field by the Rangers. And once again, we fail in key spots.

Starting point is 00:11:49 Like you have to get that runner on third base in. That is inexcusable. And Ali was not thrilled with that after the game. You know, lack of execution was the big word that stood out to me in his post-game press conference. He was not thrilled with the execution. And you have every right to feel that way. Like you've got to put the ball in play.

Starting point is 00:12:11 You cannot do that. And it happened. So you're at a tight ball game, though. You got to be like, all right, well, at least we tied it up. It's a brand new ball game, zero, zero. Here we go. Then in the eighth inning, you get a lead off double from Jimmy Crooks, gets things going.

Starting point is 00:12:25 But five pitches later, that's all it took. Five pitches later, and the inning is over. Victor Scott steps up in a sack situation. Here is the time to bunt. If you're going to do it, move them over to third base. That way, fly ball, error, passball, wild pitch. Anything can get a runner in at third with less than two outs.

Starting point is 00:12:50 And he goes to bunt and he pops it up. Pops it up. Second pitch he sees for out number one. So that sucks. So now you've got a runner on second. and one out. Two pitches later, J.J. Weatherhole pops out to the short stop. Two down. And then Herrera swings at the very first pitch he sees from the brand new pitcher, Calquantral. I hate it when they do this. I hate it, hate it, hate it. I don't understand why they swing at the

Starting point is 00:13:20 first pitch from a reliever. You haven't seen this guy. He's just getting on the mound for the first time. I guess you're trying to take advantage of maybe him laying a cookie in there for you. But it just every time I see them do it, they make it out. It feels like it. So I need to look up with the stats and how they are on first pitch swinging. But for me, it feels like they don't do so well against it. Every once in a while they run into one. But it just feels like it's not smart.

Starting point is 00:13:50 And it wasn't here. Yvonne Herrera grounds out inning over. Two huge chances to take control of the game. it doesn't happen. So now the momentum goes back to the Texas Rangers. Cardinals have a combined eight hits and 42 at bats with a runner on second and third in the first five games of this homestand. It's been putrid, 190 batting average. Terrible. And then Dustin May, you go to Dustin May, who was really, really good again. Like, I've really enjoyed watching Dustin May throw for the Cardinals this season.

Starting point is 00:14:20 You know, I find it hard to believe that there are a lot of fans who haven't been impressed with what the Cardinals have gotten from Dustin May. far this year outside of those first two starts, which we know we're horrible, but he's been arguably your best pitcher of the season since those first two starts. And his last two losses have been just gut-wrenching because he has certainly pitched well enough to win those games, but in the end, they go down his losses. Milwaukee, he's spending a no-hitter into the eighth inning. That flips into a loss late. And then on Tuesday night at Bush Stadium, he's cruising along until the fifth inning, has that two-to-nothing lead at the time before things begin to unravel.

Starting point is 00:14:53 You get back-to-back, one-out singles, puts runners on the corners. But May gets the weak contact off Nikki Lopez's bat, and it's a grounder to his left, and he fields it cleanly, and then he does a little extra shuffling with his feet to try to position his body to get the out at second base. I don't have a problem with that at all. You've got to get the first out. That's the key right there, right? You've got to get the first out there. You've got to get one of these guys.

Starting point is 00:15:23 And so to make sure he got that out at second base, I don't have really a problem with it. But at the same time, not being able to execute that quicker allows the runner at first to be safe. Like Nikki Lopez runs well and they're not able to turn two, run scores. Now you've got a runner on first with two outs, but that makes it two to one. And just that little extra time turned it from an inning, ending devil play into a tie ball game because then Jack Peterson follows up with an RBI double, scoring Lopez from first. Then in the sixth inning, it was a one-out walk that ends up burning Dustin May,

Starting point is 00:16:00 ground out, moved the runner over. And then it's another household name in Alejandro Osuna, who finds a hole up the middle, makes it three to two. So now it's a walk. And it just seems like anything the cardinals do wrong, like it's coming back to get them, to bite them in the end. that's kind of where they are right now in this season. They just cannot get away from making any mistakes.

Starting point is 00:16:27 Anytime they do, it burns. And now it's three to two. They get a runoff Jojo in the seventh inning after a lead off double. And then the Rangers do what the Cardinals couldn't do. They get a successful sacrifice bunt and then a sack fly. ABC baseball, man, makes it four to two. But the Cardinals came back. They tied up.

Starting point is 00:16:47 But then the ninth inning, they hand things off to rally O'Brien, who immediately is guilty of the Cardinal sin for any reliever in the sport of baseball, you cannot walk the leadoff man. You just can't do it. Make him head to get on, but you can't walk him, and he does. And it was downhill from there. Things got really bad for Riley O'Brien. Walk, wild pitch.

Starting point is 00:17:10 He gets the strikeout, what was huge at the point at that point, but back-to-back singles, sack fly, and you're looking at it at seven to four deficit, which is how it ended. Rob Raines noted that it was the fifth time in O'Brien's last 13 appearances that he has allowed two or more runs in a game over that stretch, which began, as he points out, when, remember when he threw 39 pitches against Seattle? And everybody was like, what the hell is Ollie doing? Why is he out there still? Like, get him out of here. Things haven't gone well since that moment on April 25th. O'Brien has allowed 13 runs and 13 innings.

Starting point is 00:17:44 He's got seven saves in that stretch, but also three losses and two blown saves. Bernie Miklis pointed out in a tweet that he says the O'Brien Sinker is the problem right now. It's it's broken. The vertical drop on it has lost several inches, which has led to with swing deterioration, deterioration, and lax command with it. So it's not like Riley's got this whole arsenal of pitches to choose from. Like, Sinker is the big pitch. That's his main one.

Starting point is 00:18:15 And if your main pitch is not working, you're going to struggle. And we're seeing Riley O'Brien struggle. And it's just yet another hurdle for this team to overcome. On the bright side of things from last night, Giusefos Soriano, excellent out of the pen, crooks win, JJ Burley, each had multiple hits. The Cardinals out hit the Rangers 13 to 9, but couldn't figure out how to get more runs across the plate.

Starting point is 00:18:39 That's their problem is not cashing out on opportunities. It's just killing them. It's killing them right now. And those momentum swings that happen from those moments as well, you know, you get a couple guys on and the other team gets out of it without giving up a run, momentum swings right back into their favor and the Cardinals are fighting an uphill battle. So that's where I see the real problems that every team is going to struggle and have moments where the lineup's not going very well where, you know, there's only one or two guys that are hitting well

Starting point is 00:19:07 and the rest of them are called. It happens. And that's where the Cardinals are right now. They're in one of these lulls. But the problem with hitting with runners in scoring position, it's been there all year. It's been there all year. You're not last place in the league because of your last 10 games. Like, this is something that's been a problem. And they got to figure out a way to be better. That's all it is. Up next, another big bat, or I should say another big night for a big bat.

Starting point is 00:19:33 Joshua Baez went off again at AAA Memphis, which has got a lot of people whispering, do we need to bring him up now? All right? So we'll take a look at what he's doing. We'll also take a gander at the NL Central, which continues to see the Brewers. just soar above the rest while the rest of us continue to shuffle there beneath them.

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Starting point is 00:21:35 fans demand change. They have no patience. You know, if somebody has a bad couple of games, we can get the hell out of here. We are done. Who's left? To bring somebody up. But we got to remember that this is a marathon.

Starting point is 00:21:47 It is not a sprint, not only for the season in 2026, but for the future of the Cardinals in general. And we just saw them make some significant roster moves recently when they swapped out Prieto and Pozo, let Velazquez and Crooks come up and get significant playing time. It's a step towards the future, more with Crooks than Velasquez. We don't know what the future is with him, but it's a step towards the future, towards guys that might have significant parts of this puzzle or be significant parts of this

Starting point is 00:22:17 puzzle for the organization moving forward. You got Lars New Park, who's set to come back this weekend. Nathan Church starting his rehab assignment on Thursday. So reinforcements are on the way, and that could get this whole thing rolling in the right direction again. You know, I don't think it's just coincidence that things have struggled and have been tough since you lost your depth pieces in Ramon Urius and Nathan Church specifically. You know, these are guys that were playing significant roles on this team and now you don't have them. And you've seen, you know, Brian Torres come up and have some good, uh, at bats and do some good things, obviously. But now you got Velasquez, now you got crooks,

Starting point is 00:23:01 and, you know, it's next man up. Somebody's got to step up. And obviously, you need the guys that are already in the lineup to step up as well. But, you know, they've already switched some things up a little bit. But fans are, you know, they're always ready for the next big thing to come along. And that next big thing is Joshua Baez, who is just on an absolute heater right now. Another big night on Tuesday, drove in three of the five,

Starting point is 00:23:25 Memphis runs and they're lost in Louisville. The right-handed hitter was four for five with two doubles and tied the game with two strikes and two outs on an infield single on the bottom of the 10th inning. Used his speed, got the job done. The three RBIs in the game pushed his team lead to 42 on the season. He's also now batting 262 with 16 home runs and over the last 30 days he's been hitting 281 and the OPS at 1.017. The numbers are great.

Starting point is 00:23:53 They're fantastic. But there's no rush to push them into the pros too early. You don't need to do it despite this recent surge. And I know that everybody's freaking out. They want to like, we got to save the season, man. We were doing so well. We got to stay in this thing. But are you going to do it at the expense of calling somebody up maybe too early?

Starting point is 00:24:15 Are you willing to risk that? I'm not. You know, I want to see what other combinations Ali can come up with to get this thing going when the rest of the guys are healthy. You didn't need Joshua Baez a couple of weeks ago. You're like, yeah, let them stay at AAA and let them continue to learn and play every day. And, you know, this is first year at AAA. But now, just because, you know, the Cardinals aren't winning as much as they were and Baez is hitting very, very well at AAA. Everybody's like, get them up here. Be our savior, Joshua. And you just can't be that way. Like, I want to see what else

Starting point is 00:24:53 they can pull off. You know, I want to see what a healthy Newt Bar Church and Walker outfield looks like. You know, Victor Scott's had his chances. And when Church and Newt Bar are healthy, they should be in there. They are, they've earned it. Newt Bar being, being the veteran, obviously. And then Church has just been better than Victor Scott in every way, shape, and form. Even defensively, Nathan Church, I think it has been better. And then, of course, Jordan Walker in right field, like you're not moving him. And, you know, if you think, about this like trade deadline wise if you try to drive a large newpar's value he's got to play every day and if you're pulling bias up that's not going to happen you know bias would have to play

Starting point is 00:25:34 every day that would be the point so i'd pump the brakes on any expectations of him coming up soon it's not time but it does feel like his promotion is inevitable at some point this season whether it's you know near the trade deadline when other pieces get moved or uh just later on in the season and they need an injection of youth and they want to get them a taste of the big league. So it's probably going to happen at some point. I'm just saying, pump the brakes. Don't make this guy be your baseball Jesus to save your season in a year where we knew the cardals were going to have a tough time and struggle a little bit.

Starting point is 00:26:12 And right now it's this group that's got to figure out how to get it going again. these are the guys that need to get it done. You can't put it all on Joshua Bayez's shoulders to come up here and save the day. As far as the NL Central goes, the Cardinals have now dropped the third place. They're six and a half back of the Brewers who continue to beat everyone in their path right now. Winners of three in a row, seven of their last 10. They've got the third best record in baseball now at 37 and 21 behind the Braves and the Dodgers. Cardinals are now one game back of Pittsburgh who's on a heater.

Starting point is 00:26:42 They've won four in a row, seven of their last 10 as well. Cubs are now tied with the Cardinals and third. place after losing to the A's 2 to 1 and the Reds, who looked like they were down and out against the Royals after getting blasted by Kansas City on Monday, come back and win an extra inning. So they're now just a half game back of the cards and the Cubs. NL Central, it just continues to shuffle depending on who's hot at the time. Cardinals were hot early on. They were right up there.

Starting point is 00:27:08 Now they're cooling off. They're starting to slide back down. And, you know, it's right now it's not the Cardinals, who are the hot team. the division. So they just can't seem to put together anything consistently lately. So pitching good one day, hitting doesn't show up. Next day, hitting seems to be good enough, but then the pitching suffers, mental and physical mistakes, lack of execution, you know, things this team was doing well early on in the season, which got them out to that good start. They are not doing. That has vanished and so has the winning with it. So they got to clean it up.

Starting point is 00:27:41 They just got to clean it up because we said that earlier in the season that this team isn't good enough to make a lot of mistakes and not capitalize on opportunities, whether it's runners in scoring position or just plays in the field, not turning two. Like, look how quickly that changed things. So it's stuff like that. Like, they're just not a lot of margin for error for the Cardinals this year. And, you know, that's the line they're going to be walking all year long because that's what this rebuild is about is having this group of guys learn how to play together and they

Starting point is 00:28:13 got to overcome adversity together. Nobody can do it for them. they just got to learn and get better at it. So this is more of the team that many envisioned coming into the season that we would see. And now the thing is, we've seen how good they can be. And fans are pissed. And they're not settling for whatever this is over the last month where they've been 13 and 15. We know they're better than that.

Starting point is 00:28:33 We've seen it. They just got to get back to it. So they'll try to avoid the sweep tonight with Texas, Andre Palante on the mound against another tough leftie of McKinsey, and McKenzie Gore, who's another one of those guys who has the reverse splits. Right-handed hitters are batting 191 against him while left. He's hit 245. So we'll see what Ali does with the lineup. Thanks for making it Locked on Cardinals, if you haven't already, give us follow on X at L0 underscore Cardinals.

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