St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Blog » Jason LaRue http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com A blog about St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:30:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Pineiro and the Cardinals eliminate the Diamondbacks http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/pineiro-and-the-cardinals-eliminate-the-diamondbacks/ http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/pineiro-and-the-cardinals-eliminate-the-diamondbacks/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:52:57 +0000 HotStoveCardinals http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/?p=73 The St. Louis Cardinals played the spoilers role on Thursday afternoon as they eliminated the Arizona Diamondbacks from the playoff race. The Cardinals hammered the D-backs by the score of 12-3 as Joel Pineiro and Albert Pujols both had huge days.

Pineiro improved his record to 7-7 as he tossed seven innings to pick up the win. Joel gave up three hits and three runs in the game. Adam Dunn took him deep for a solo home run and then he gave up a two-run single to Mark Reynolds but that was all the offense that the D-backs would get. Josh Kinney and Carlos Perez each tossed one inning of relief and held the D-backs scoreless during those two innings.

Pujols led the team at the plate as he went 3 for 3 wth a three run home run and a rbi sac fly to finish the game with four rbi. Ryan Ludwick also hit a solo home run and finished with two rbi. Felipe Lopez and Jason LaRue both had two rbi in the game as well. To finish out the scoring for the Cardinals, Cesar Izturis and Aaron Miles both had one rbi each.

The Cardinals will now play their final series of the 2008 season against the Cincinnati Reds. Friday and Saturday will be night games and then the season finale will be Sunday afternoon. Do your best to get out to the park one last time this season and catch the Cardinals play if you can.

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]]> http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/pineiro-and-the-cardinals-eliminate-the-diamondbacks/feed/ 0 Cardinals pound the Pirates 11-2 http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/cardinals-pound-the-pirates-11-2/ http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/cardinals-pound-the-pirates-11-2/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:09:40 +0000 HotStoveCardinals http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/?p=67 The St. Louis Cardinals finished up a two game series with the Pittsburgh Pirates in old fashioned butt kicking style. The Cardinals evened the short series with an 11-2 victory on Wednesday night when they scored in five out out of the eight innings that they batted in. The win was big for the Cardinals as the Cubs lost and they are now 7.5 games out in the division.

Rick Ankiel and Jason LaRue both hit two run home runs to lead the Cardinals at the plate. LaRue finished the game with a team high three rbi while Ankiel and Albert Pujols were right behind him with two rbi each. Pujols rbi’s came on a groundout and a double. Skip Schumaker, Ryan Ludwick, Troy Glaus, and starting pitcher Todd Wellemeyer all chipped in with one rbi each as well.

Wellemeyer got another victory as he pitched five innings. He improved his record to 11-4 as he gave up five hits and one run. Russ Springer, Jaime Garcia, Ryan Franklin, and Chris Perez all seen action out of the bullpen for the Cardinals.

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]]> http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/cardinals-pound-the-pirates-11-2/feed/ 1 Looper Pitches First Career Shutout as Cards Top Reds 10-0 http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/looper-pitches-first-career-shutout-as-cards-top-reds-10-0/ http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/looper-pitches-first-career-shutout-as-cards-top-reds-10-0/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:50:20 +0000 Robert.Cards http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/looper-pitches-first-career-shutout-as-cards-top-reds-10-0/ Braden Looper pitched a gem giving up only 3 hits and NO walks on 98 pitches in Wednesday night’s game at the Great American Ballpark.  His performance was definitely something Cardinal fans needed after seeing our star, Albert Pujols, headed to the DL for at least three weeks.  This was Looper’s first shutout in his 44 career starts.  His start last night has definitely shown baseball fans that he has officially made the transition as a true middle of the rotation starter after spending the his first nine seasons in the bullpen as a reliever.  His ERA dropped from 4.86 to 4.34, improving his record to 8-5, being the first Cardinal this year to reach the 8 win mark.

Our offense was also superb, scoring 10 runs on 10 hits and drawing 8 walks.  It’s nice to see our LOB numbers finally coming down after it seemed like we were leaving 10+ men on base every game for the first two months of the season.  Our lineup has gotten especially good at drawing walks this year. Kudos to Hal McRae.  The Cardinals lead the majors with 392 walks, and are 26th in the majors in strikeouts!  Hal McRae does a great job of getting hitters to see the zone.

Rick Ankiel(10), Ryan Ludwick(16) and Jason LaRue(1) all hit dingers, this being the second game in a row for both Ankiel and Ludwick.  Ankiel’s three-run shot in the first lifted the weight off of Looper’s shoulders allowing him to get into the groove for the rest of the game.

Obviously the performance of the game was Looper.  After seeing three of our starters and Albert hit the DL, a game like this is just what the team needed.  If our interim starters and offense continue to perform we should be in great shape while Wainwright and Pujols recover from their injuries.

The cardinals improved their record to 40-27, 13 games over .500 and just 2.5 games behind the Cubs.  We keep winning games but the Cubbies just seem to be unbeatable lately.  This many games into the season last year, the Cardinals were 30-37.

Joel Piniero makes his first start since coming off the DL Thursday night to pitch against Bronson Arroyo.  Hopefully we can head home fresh off a sweep of the Reds. Remember to vote your Cardinals into the All-Star Game!!!!!!

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]]> http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/looper-pitches-first-career-shutout-as-cards-top-reds-10-0/feed/ 0 Cardinals fall to the Brewers 8-3 http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/cardinals-fall-to-the-brewers-8-3/ http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/cardinals-fall-to-the-brewers-8-3/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 15:30:58 +0000 HotStoveCardinals http://www.cardinalshomeplate.com/cardinals-fall-to-the-brewers-8-3/ The St. Louis Cardinals fell to the to the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night by the score of 8-3.  Ryan Braun hit two home runs off Adam Wainwright who also gave up another home run to Bill Hall as he took the loss.  Wainwright is now 3-2 on the season.

Wainwright tossed six innings and gave up eight hits and eight runs.  The three home runs were all solo shots so it wasn’t like Wainwright just made three mistakes in the game.  He just didn’t have his good stuff in the game and that is why the Cardinals got down by so many runs and lost.

The Cardinals did get on the board first with a Rick Ankiel solo home run in the first inning.  The home run was Ankiels seventh of the season.  The Cardinals then scored back to back runs in the in the eighth and ninth inning on a Skip Schumaker rbi single and a bases loaded walk to Jason LaRue.

The Cardinals are now one full game behind the Chicago Cubs who crushed the San Diego Padres.  It is key for the Cardinals to come back and get a win on Tuesday against the Brewers because the Cubs are playing some really good baseball the past four games.

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