Jenifer Langosch covers the Cardinals for MLB.com. She covered the Pirates from 2007-11.
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com Several news items to come out of the Cardinals’ clubhouse this morning. You can read more on each in the cardinals.com notebook this afternoon, but here is a quick rundown so that everyone is caught up in the meantime: Manager Mike Matheny announced that left-hander Tyler Lyons will join the team in San […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com A left shoulder strain has landed left-hander Jaime Garcia on the disabled list and has the Cardinals concerned that surgery may be the necessary in order to correct a shoulder impingement that has been bothering Garcia for the past 12 months. This same injury sidelined Garcia for a little more than two months […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com Matt Adams has dented the starting lineup for just the second time since coming off the disabled list May 7. He went 2-for-3 with a home run off Milwaukee’s Marco Estrada back in April. Carlos Beltran — 1-for-8 in his career against Estrada — gets the day off. This will be Estrada’s third […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com The Cardinals open a series tonight against the Brewers, whom they’ve beaten six times in seven tries already this season. Jaime Garcia made a start in each of those series, allowing a combined one run on 15 hits in 15 innings. He has a quality start in nine of his 11 career starts […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com With a win on Thursday, the Cardinals would secure their second four-game sweep… in the month of May. The first, you might remember, came in Milwaukee to open the month. The Cardinals last swept the Mets in a series of more than four games in September 1982, when St. Louis won every game of […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com No one has forgotten what Shelby Miller did the last time on the mound. Now, it’s just time to find out what he has in store for an encore. Miller enters tonight’s start having retired 27 straight batters. The Major League record for most consecutive batters retired is held by Mark Buehrle, who […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com Lefty John Gast will make his Major League debut tonight as a fill-in starter for the injured Jake Westbrook. Gast looked hardly frazzled by the Major League stage yesterday when meeting with reporters. He had a calmness about him this afternoon, too, as he sat at the end of the dugout watching his […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com There was plenty of news while I took some time off over the weekend — from Shelby Miller’s phenomenal performance to Adam Wainwright’s worthy follow up to Jake Westbrook’s move to the disabled list. In conjunction with the latter, the Cardinals have also added lefty John Gast from Triple-A Memphis. Gast, who opened the […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com The Cardinals close out their six-game, seven-day road swing with an afternoon game at Wrigley Field today. Manager Mike Matheny is sticking with the same eight position players he used on Tuesday, though Jon Jay and David Freese swap places in the batting order. Today’s game marks the end of a 12-game stretch […] |
| Jenifer Langosch/MLB.com The Cardinals and Cubs are meeting for the first of 19 games between the two clubs this season. St. Louis arrives at Wrigley Field riding a six-game winning streak — their longest winning streak since taking eight straight from July 10-21, 2010. The club has won seven in a row on the road, […] |