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Game Date:
06/20/2017
7:05pm EST
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St. Louis -1.5
Philadelphia +1.5
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Under 10 (-110)
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St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies Thread
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The Phillies spent $13.2 million on Michael Saunders and Jeanmar Gomez last winter and jettisoned both from their roster before the official start of summer. The two veterans were designated for assignment Tuesday. They were replaced by outfielder Cameron Perkins and lefthanded reliever Hoby Milner, who were summoned from triple-A Lehigh Valley. Both will make their major-league debuts when inserted into a game. Saunders, who signed a $9 million deal late last winter, was an all-star last season with Toronto. But he was one of the worst outfielders in baseball this season. Saunders hit .205 with a .257 on-base percentage and .360 slugging percentage. Six days before the Phillies cut ties with Continue to Article
June 20, 2017 1:00:am EST
The Cardinals offense has disappointed for much of the season, with injuries and unexpected performance dips waylaying several players projected to be major contributors. On June 6, the Reds annihilated the Cardinals 13–1. Leading off that game, Fowler went 0 for 2 before getting taken out early, in the process dropping his season line to .222/.317/.423. Continue to Article
June 18, 2017 11:38:pm EST
ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Cardinals appear they will once again be without second baseman Kolten Wong, after he left Wednesday’s game early due to tightness in his right forearm. “He was favoring it,” said Mike Matheny afterwards. “Yeah, he couldn’t really throw. I think it happened on his check swing, so we’re going to have him really looked at closely and gotta figure out what we’re dealing with here and deciding how long that’s going to take.” Less than two weeks ago (May 27 - June 6th), Wong was on the disabled list with a strained left elbow. Raising his batting average to .301, Wong had an RBI double and strikeout on the night before he was replaced by Greg Garcia in the top of the 6th Continue to Article
June 15, 2017 9:27:am EST
The entire Phillies baseball operations department packed into a second-floor Citizens Bank Park conference room Wednesday evening. As the dozens of men pored over reports on the longest of long shots — the late rounds of a 40-round Major League Baseball draft — Matt Klentak exited the room and went downstairs. His team, the one with the worst record in baseball, took batting practice. Klentak sat in the dugout and, for 15 minutes, the Phillies general manager explained his restraint. The Phillies will not yet summon a prospect from the minors. They will not enact radical change to a team that was not expected to flounder but has failed to reach even that low bar. This team, for now, is what Continue to Article
June 15, 2017 1:00:am EST
The crowd at Citizens Bank Park hardly reacted as Ruben Amaro Jr. took the field Wednesday night. He shook hands and chatted with first baseman Tommy Joseph during warm-ups. Moments later, the Phanatic rushed over to hand Amaro a stuffed mascot, which he offered to a young fan in the first row. Three rows back, a man held up a sign reading, "Amaro - free fall from GM to first base." The homecoming was bittersweet for Amaro, a former player who served as the Phillies' general manager for almost seven years. Wednesday night was his first return to the stadium in almost two years. "It means a lot to me to be back here," Amaro said. "I'm not going to play it off like it's nothing to me. This was Continue to Article
June 15, 2017 1:00:am EST
