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Cardinals trade for Khalil Greene from the Padres

HotStoveCardinals — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:15:04 +0000

The St. Louis picked up their shortstop for the 2009 season on Thursday as they completed a trade with the San Diego Padres. The Cardinals traded for Khalil Greene and will be sending pitching prospect Mark Worrell to the Padres as well as a player to be named later. The PTBNL will probably be another pitching prospect as well.

Greene will make $6.5 million in 2009, with the Cardinals on the hook to pay all of it. St. Louis would thus be left with approximately $10-15 million more in payroll room to find a second baseman and perhaps another starting pitcher and/or another left-handed reliever. Greene will be eligible for free agency after the 2009 season

Greene struggled in 2008 as he only hit .213 with a .260 on-base percentage and a .339 slugging percentage. It was his worst season in the big leagues but hopefully he can turn things around and have a good 09 season for the Cardinals and stay injury free as well.

Also on Wednesday, the team signed reliever Trever Miller to a one-year contract.

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Cardinals lose on walk off two run homer in the 10th inning

HotStoveCardinals — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:45:26 +0000

Talk about a bad way to lose a baseball game. The St. Louis Cardinals had just tied up the game in the top of the ninth inning, and then took the lead in the top of the 10th inning, but ended up giving up a two run walk off home run and lost to the game to the Washingtion Nationals 10-9.

Ryan Franklin gave up a two run home run to Elijah Dukes in the bottom of the 10th inning. Franklin took the loss and is now 2-2 on the season. Franklin simply didn’t get his job done. Mike Parisi the Cardinals starting pitcher pitched terrible as he only lasted four innings after giving up ten hits and eight runs.

Mark Worrell, Kyle McClellan, Ron Villone, and Randy Flores all pitched alteast one inning after Parisi left the game and before Franklin blew the game. All four of those relief pitchers did a great job of not giving up any more runs to the Nationals.

Worrell actually led the Cardinals at the plate with three rbi as he hit a three run home run in the sixth inning. Troy Glaus and Joe Mather both hit solo home runs. Mather’s home run was what put the Cardinals ahead by one in the top of the tenth inning. Parisi had two rbi while Skip Schumaker and Aaron Miles finished with one rbi each.

Tough way to split a double header. Hopefully the Cardinals will get a decent nights of sleep so they can come out and play good against the Houston Astros on Friday.

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Cardinals beat the Nationals 6-1 in rainy game

HotStoveCardinals — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:24:39 +0000

The St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Nationals played through a rain delays but the rain couldn’t even slow the Cardinals down as they came away with a 6-1 victory over the Nationals. Four runs in the first inning and then single runs in the fourth and fifth innings ended up being enough for the Cardinals.

Bengie Monlina hit a three run home run in the first inning for the big hit of the game. The Cardinals also got a run in the first inning off of a Ryan Ludwick single. In the fourth inning of the game, Cesar Izturis stole home to score and then the fifth inning Kyle Lohse had a rbi single.

Lohse ended up getting the win in the game as he tossed five innings and allowed four hits and one run. Good outing by Lohse who improved to 6-2 on the season. Kyle McClellan, Russ Springer, Ron Villone, and Mark Worrell all pitched a scoreless inning in relief.

It was a good win for the Cardinals as they were 3.5 games behind the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs are up three right now against the Padres so it looks like the Cards will remain 3.5 games back if the score stands.

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