mattmo woody
14-10, 4.11 9-12, 4.85
the doctahs say that if the cardinals advance to the nlcs, mark mulder can't pitch before game 3. fine. if he can go in 3 (next saturday), that'd put him in line to pitch game (ulp) 7 of that series. morris pitches tonight; his next regular turn would come on thursday, which is game 2 of the nlcs. so we could line `em up carp 1, morris 2, mulder 3 vs hou or hotlanta --
-- but suppose this series runs the full 5? either suppan or marquis pitches tomorrow, which would make that guy's next regular turn friday, an nlcs off day; ok, saturday -- nope, that's game 3, mulder's turn. alright, dammit, sunday . . . . but wait a second. if we postulate a five-game series, that means chris carpenter would pitch monday, and his regular turn would fall next saturday -- game friggin' 3. logjam city.
so how would it go? presumably whoever doesn't start tomorrow (suppan or marquis) would open the nlcs, by default; every other starter would be on short rest or injured. morris would pitch game 2, carpenter 3, mulder 4, then supp/marquis 5, morris 6, carpenter 7 . . .. suboptimal, to say the least.
that's one of many reasons to close this series out asap, and not let the padres back into it.
Update [2005-10-8 21:57:45 by lboros]: miklasz has the lineups posted -- tony stands pat for 3 consec games:
| STL | SD |
|---|---|
| eckstein ss | roberts cf |
| edmonds cf | loretta 2b |
| pujols 1b | giles rf |
| walker rf | klesko lf |
| sanders lf | hernandez c |
| grud'k 2b | fick 1b |
| nunez 3b | greene ss |
| molina c | randa 3b |
| morris p | williams p |