The Pedres beat the Cardinals 4-0 in the decisive game 3 of the National League Wild Card Series on Friday night. As a result, Pedres will take the best of the two series in one by two game counts and advance to the NLDS and face division rival Dodgers in the Best-F-Five series. The Cardinals, meanwhile, will see their 2020 season come to an end. St. Louis, however, can boast a little reassurance on the fact that the 44 made the postseason despite playing 53 games in 44 days, due to their covid-related shutdown at the start of the season.
In Game 3, Pedres managed to evacuate the Cardinals despite the precarious pitching situation. Thanks to injuries caused by the rotation and heavy use of the bullpen in Games 1 and 2, San Diego manager Jayce Tingler got bored before Game 3.
In the offense, Pedres found a pair of doubles and an RBI pair from Eric Homer. In the eighth, Jack Cronenworth hit the game’s lone home innings, shot single singer Alex Reyes to provide the final margin of victory.
Now to learn a few things about this.
The ‘Johnny Hustlestaf’ approach worked for Pedres
Yes, circumstances forced Tingler to use nine pitchers in Game 3 wins. Craig Stamman took the ball early and made his first start since 2010. St St Man’s night was short by starter standards, but it was by design. The next eight pitches are responsible for the final 22 stripes of the game. All nine hurricanes combined allowed only four hits, three of them singles. It ended in the ninth with the inclusion of Trevor Rosenthal’s team against his former team. Along the way, Pedres’ pitching staff and Tingler’s liver-pulling made some history:
All the way, the Cardinals used only two clocks, Reese and starter Jack Flaherty. The Pedres were in such trouble because their top two starters, Mike Clevinger and Danielson Lamet, were out of injury and because they used six relievers in the first two games of the series. However, it all worked out in the end.
The defense of the Cardinals was barely overnight
St. Louis probably had the best defense in the baseball during the regular season and during 2019. So they are not accustomed to expensive accidents. Expensive accidents, however, played a major role in Game 3. Colten Wong, especially the second best defensive baseman in the game, was instrumental in giving Pedres two up as the seventh-ranked batsman was not. Later in the same frame, third baseman Tommy Adman, also a defensive asset in general, managed to somehow get zero out on the play:
It’s no exaggeration to say that the series has survived that seventh inning, and has a lot to do with the Cardinals ’losses in the field.
Electrified from Tatis Jr. Glove
NL MVP candidate Fernando Tatis Jr. completed it with a bat in the Wild Card Series and came into Game 3. In the first two games of the series, Tetis Jr. had a slash line of .444 / .500 / 1.611 with two homers and five bases. In Game 3, Tatis again became the creator of the dish, as it was double and two feet tall. However, the workstop made the biggest impression with his work.
Exhibit A:
And especially display B:
By reminder, he is still 21 years old.
The cruel posts in the Centrals were ason Sun.
The NL-AL Central Bubble can’t exactly cover itself in pride during the Wild Card Series. Collectively, they put up seven teams in the postseason and those seven teams lost in the first round. They were 2-14 in those games. N.L. Of the four elimination games played by the Central teams, N.L. None of the central teams scored. Side by side, that the Centrals helped us to have an intimate rivalry in every playful subject of the League Division series that was washed out to such an impossibility.
