adam wainwright Stories - Viva El Birdos
fickle finger cont'd
quoting derrick goold’s article in this morning’s post-dispatch: Wainwright met Monday with team doctor George Paletta and also saw a hand specialist. An MRI was taken of his right middle finger. The exam, the team's release said, revealed "a sprain to the finger." At the team's...
fickle finger of fate
five days ago i flew down to mexico to attend a wedding. i didn’t think about baseball much while i was down there; drank mojitos all day, laid around in the sun and collected shells w/ my kids, and ended up with refritos for brains. i still haven’t shaken off the effects and am in no...
heroes
tony has left wainwright out on a limb a few times already this year and got away with it, but sooner or later it was bound to cost him; only a matter of time. the times that it worked: april 16: at the 113-pitch mark (in only his 3d start of the year) and 20 pitches into the 8th inning,...
1-2-3, count with me . . .
welcome back, walter jocketty. the guys at SB Nation brother site Red Reporter asked my opinion of their team’s new gm over the weekend, and i gave ‘em some thoughts; read all about it. and au revoir, matt morris. he’s the second not-that-long-ago mainstay of the stl rotation to...
Game 21 Open Thread: April 22, 2008
Lohse Parra 2-0, 1.48 1-1, 5.40 stat of the day: albert pujols has seen more balls this year --- 166, or 54 percent --- than strikes (143, or 46 percent). from 2001-07 he saw strikes about 58 percent of the time, and never less than 56 percent strikes in any given...
making it last
let’s start with ankiel’s 17-pitch at-bat. it was nearly as long as the brewers’ entire 9th-inning rally (19 pitches); that’s what type of an at-bat it was. the pitch-per-AB data at Baseball-Reference’s playfinder index stretch back 20 years, to 1988. in that entire...
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