Cardinals news and notes: 2016, Oquendo, Reds

Now that’s an ending. The Cardinals escaped last night with a pretty lucky, or at least premature, 4-3 win over the Reds last night on a ground-rule double from Yadier Molina (that apparently wasn’t) which allowed Matt Carpenter to score the winning run. The rest of the baseball world went to bed relieved that the Cardinals finally caught a break. Good enough for me. You can read the rally thread and recap if you so choose.

And in the spirt of last night, here are two other recent bad calls to end a baseball game (h/t to @VanHicklestein for the second video):

Call at home is safe - Braves win (but did they?):

Ben Zobrist takes “strike three” to end a game vs. the Rangers:

Here’s what you may have missed yesterday at VEB:

2016 Season

Joe Schwarz speaks the truth on the 2016 season.

The Secret Weapon

The Cardinals are an especially bad base running team this season and we all know why.

Carlos Martinez

Jose Fernandez once gave Carlos Martinez some very nice advice.

Have a great weekend, everyone.