Cardinals Get Clobbered By The Brewers, Riley O'Brien Looks Bad | Locked On Cardinals

the St Louis Cardinals get throttled by the Brewers on Labor Day and one play in particular had me this close this close to throwing my remote at the television you are locked on Cardinals your daily St Louis Cardinals podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day hey there Cardinal fans I'm JD ha and I'm a national radio Sports Anchor born and raised in the L and a lifetime Cardinal fan and I'm your host for lockon Cardinals part of the lockon podcast Network covering your team every day you can follow me on Twitter xjd sportsradio you can follow the podcast at _ Cardinals I want to thank those of you who make lockon Cardinals your first listen every day we are free and available wherever you get your podcast you can also find us on YouTube stop on by if you haven't already comment sub subscribe like hit the like button I don't know why you guys don't hit the like button more thousands of views only a couple hundred likes come on man it just takes two seconds uh and uh make sure you hit the notification button so when the new episodes are posted you'll be notified this is a show serving Cardinal nation and giving the best fans in baseball all of the info about the birds on the bat today's episode brought to you by FanDuel now through September 22nd all FanDuel customers can bet $5 that's it $5 and get a three-week free trial of NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV visit fel.com to get started so the Cardinals got railroaded by the Brewers on Monday uh Happy Labor Day by the way to everyone hope you enjoyed your day off I had to work like 11 hours no rest for the wicked right not complaining just pointing it out there uh and after mashing 21 hits and scoring 14 runs against the Yankees on Sunday the team got slowed down by Freddy Peralta and the Brewer they end up losing on Monday 9 to3 and I I know you're not going to like to hear this you really are but this Brewers team man I know people don't seem to have a a ton of faith in them moving on into the playoffs you know when you compare the names that are on the roster of the Brewers and then you go look at the rosters of some of the bigger teams like you know the Dodgers the Phillies in the National League the Yankees the Orioles and so forth you know there's other teams with bigger names bigger attractions but this Brewers team it they they just do all the little things right they just do they are a pain in the butt to pitch to especially when the up is giving them you know extra strikes which was going on early on although when you go back and look at the Umpire scorecard for Monday's game actually did a really good job 95% uh consistency I believe 94% of his strikes were were right but couple of pitches actually went against the Cardinals couple went against the Brewers too but um yeah that that that was tough in the first inning um but the Brewers they've got one of the the most athletic teams uh defensive teams in the league you know guys are just flying all around the Outfield the infield they can get to everything got a solid pitching staff nothing like spectacular where you're just like oh my gosh these guys can come in and just dominate hu but they don't get hit hard very often like it's just it's just a good team they're not flashy just a very business-like demeanor when I see them on the field but they're not overly serious where they're not smiling and having a good time out there but they they've got a plan they stick to it and that plan is usually very successful and they've had a really really good year under first year manager Pat Murphy who every time he hit hold on let me see if I want to review this like I don't know he just looks so grumpy he looks so grumpy in that Dugout but they're getting the job done man and I I know it seems like I'm gushing over these guys and it's really because I'm jealous I am jealous of how simple they make the game look the Cardinal don't make it look simple the Cardinal make it look like it's the hardest thing to do ever where the Brewers are just kind of out there and they just do their thing they just don't make a lot of mistakes hardly I mean nobody's perfect right but they just don't make a lot of mistakes and just ruin innings for their team offensively like the Cardinals did on Monday now the play that just had me absolutely live it absolutely livid happened in the top of the fourth a Cardinals are down three to one at this point so very much still in the game you got Runners on first and third you got two Ops Lars Newar over at first Brennan Donovan's over at third base and you got Jordan Walker coming up to the plate now Jordan Walker is coming off that historic five for Five Day at Yankee Stadium he's flying high right he's getting all the interviews he's smiling a lot he's seeing the ball well obviously feeling good about himself he's kind of kind of beaming with the confidence that you you want him to have because you know he's a really good player and he's gonna be a great player one day hopefully if you let the guy do what he does all right if you let the guy hit and now he's up the bat with a chance to do some damage he did strike out in his first defense so what this is a the learning process of the final month of the season for Jordan Walker part D was good last year had to restart things this year but now he's in a situation in this inning where he has a chance to come through for you first at bat it wasn't a bad at bat seven pitch at bat Peralta went away away away away get used to it Jordan that's all they're going to do they're going to throw you away until they figure out that you can handle that pitch take it the opposite way hit it at the opposite way for power kind of the same stuff they've been doing to arado all right this is the Brewer's plan against Jordan and probably will be the plan for every team that he sees consistently but these are the moments where Jordan was kind of he has the upper hand in this situation you know the Brewers don't want to load the bases and put more pressure on their starter PR Freddy Peralta and it's a two- two count at this point in the atat Jordan has laid off the first two pitches that Peralta went away with he's swung at a fast ball up swung to change up down and and they got him for strikes on there but the two pitches that they went away on he laid off of it okay wasn't able to do that in the first it bat is like all right this is what we're seeing okay so you can see him learning right he's in the evat and this is a good spot he's having a good battle with a very good pitcher Freddy Peralta is a the top pitcher in the Brewers rotation and you got this 22y old kid who's just trying to learn the game and try to figure it out next pitch is a curveball it's down Walker lays off of it but what do the Cardinals decide to do Nar attends to steal second and contras not our contris but their contrerus William clearly realizes what the Cardinals are getting ready are doing right now he he does like this double clutch because he's keeping an eye on the guy over at third throw goes through because Donovan doesn't break so throw goes through n stops Donovan breaks for home and they throw him out by I don't know 10 feet inning's over what in the actual hell are you you doing what are you doing why are you trying to get tricky and steal a run against a superior defensive team they are very good with a guy like Walker at the plate who could easily put one either over the wall or shoot a gap and tie the game up anyways would you pull would Ali and these guys pull that nonsense if Nolan arado was at the plate or Paul Goldman or Wilson contras no no they'd let him swing the bat why are you doing this with Jordan Walker do you have that little confidence in him even though he just went five for five at Yankee Stadium that your best bet is to try to sneak in a run in a moment where he has a chance to have a moment rise to the occasion for your team but instead you take the bat out of his hand and rely on the Brewers not being able to execute a simple play that high school kids have to do that that's what you went with I was flabbergasted by it let him hit let him hit stop it win or lose with him and win and Baker and Scott swinging the bat don't get cute with crap like that in that situation you want to do that with somebody who doesn't have who isn't 66 250 pounds and can mash and has mashed and as a former first round pick was one of your top hitting prospects in all of baseball you want to pull that crap with somebody like you know a canani or somebody like that or a Jose fine or something go ahead why would you do that with Jordan Walker it it kills the inning it kill your momentum and then two batters later because now the Brewers are out of it and feeling good two hitters later Hoskins pops a two-run Dinger and essentially the game is over just atrocious atrocious stuff in my opinion and I had didn't hear if anybody has asked Ali about it or it was a sign mix I don't know but I don't care either it looked pretty planned to me and I just think it's dumb I think it's dumb baseball I think it's dumb for your franchise I think it's dumb for your roster like I don't get it I don't understand it this is not some scrub hitter up there this is the guy that's supposed to be one of your three four five guys of the future could be next year and that's what you do with Donovan and Newar not even like a Victor Scott or somebody or win with like legit speed like you tried to pull it off with Newton Donnie like I just it upset it upset me all right let's talk about Palante start next and how bad has this Riley O'Brien decision become it has turned out just G we'll talk about it all next unlocked on Cardinals with the season whing down there are only so many home games left to catch your Cardinals in action and game time is your authorized ticket Marketplace of Major League Baseball that makes getting tickets faster and easier and as you've 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what he's been doing and he's been good he's been really good since moving into the rotation fulltime but there are days there are just days where you don't have your good stuff it happens it happens to every pitcher it happens to some pitchers more than others but for the most part Andre Palante has been exactly what you wanted to see out of him and didn't have his best stuff on Monday there's not much more I can tell you about that I mean he didn't get a lot of help early on in this game in the first inning home playay umpire Alfonso Marquez missed two pitches that were strikes one on Jackson shrio then on Bowers and that was the big one on Bowers because it should have been the end of the inning it wasn't he ends up getting walked Adas three run Homer right after right um and in that bat with adamus he goes he goes three and one and this was kind of this was something that weirded me out too and I didn't understand it he get he falls behind three and one and legitimately does not try to fool Willie OD damus whatsoever four straight four seam fast balls and I read that actually in that aat thre eight straight fast balls uh I I didn't notice that I noticed that the next four were four scam fast balls and they were all like right in the exact same spot like if you were to break up the strike zone it was right on that inside low inside Corridor like that little area and you I mean you just can't do that with a hitter that you know someone like Willie Adamas who is having a career year is just crushing the ball five straight games now with home runs for Willie Adam it's like he's on fire eventually he's going to hit that and hit it he did with that Dinger to left field you know you're in a batting cage and the ball's always like right in the same spot doesn't matter how hard they throw it eventually you'll figure it out because it's just right there and B that's really all it was like it wasn't any seamers that I noticed all fours um we know walks will kill you you know this I know this the Cardinals pitching staff knows this they're not trying to walk people but when you fail to execute at the major league level you know you're going to get burned more times than not uh Palante walks a career high five guys in the five innings that he pitches on Monday uh you got the two that end up scoring on that three-run home run by adamus um career high Five Guys he allows the three-run Homer to Willie then a two-run homer to ree Hoskins in the fourth inning and that's not something normal for Palante either and I know Milwaukee's it's it's a hitters ballpark the ball flies out of there pretty easily uh but he'd only allowed one home run in his past seven starts so it's not like this is something that's been a problem for Andre Palante that's why I'm not I'm not freaking out about this game some days you just don't have it okay it does happen uh fun stats from Rob Reigns over at STL Sports page.com Adam's home run his 13th three-run Homer of the Season which ties the Major League records set by King Griffey Jr back in 1996 what that's crazy right I know he's been doing good because he's on the fantasy team but uh the Cardinals have hit just in comparison Willi OD Damas got 13 right now the Cardinals the whole roster has nine three run home runs this year only three coming since the All-Star break so situations like that the Brewers are coming through Cardinals are not as far as the home runs go they're not Cardinal aren't usually hitting well in with the runers at scoring position either despite recently doing better um the Brewers on the season and when we talk about comparisons of like you know how good the Brewers are look at their record look what they're doing and what the Cardinals are doing the Brewers have actually only hit 10 more home runs than the cards 154 to 144 but 57 of the home runs have come with at least one runner in scoring position for Milwaukee the Cardinals have only hit 25 with a runner in scoring position they're getting a lot of solo shots including the two home runs from Pedro pz uh on on Monday 81 of the Cardinal home runs have now come with nobody on base Brewers they just got that clutch genan and if there was any doubt about this this game and went out the window in the sixth inning that's when where the Cardinal still within Striking Distance mind you it's a 5 and3 ball game at this point so it's still right there we still don't still for the Tak still for the Tak Cardinals go to Riley O'Brien again he just pitched on M on Sunday they they want to go to him again in this one which shocked me a little bit I I was shocked that they were going to go back toback games with O'Brien considering he's coming off the injury and considering he hasn't been all that good now Sunday he did throw technically a shut out inning he didn't give up any runs that were his they were michaelis's runs but at the same time he allowed the two Runners to to come in he didn't he didn't stop anything so they bring O'Brien into this game for Palante and he has one of the worst Innings I've seen this year for a relief pcture of the Cardinals lead off walk to Hoskins big no no we know that uh tough that bat by Sam freck who ends up hitting a double credit to him get good piece of hitting was inside and uh fouled off a lot of good pitches there it's it was it was a battle um and then another five pitch walk to the number nine hitter the number nine hitter Joey Ortiz another big no no like if there's a guy you're gonna throw it over the plate to it's their number nine hitter but no walk him five pitches so we know that he doesn't have as good stuff all right he doesn't look all that good next batter Bryce terang rips one over to first base and if it wasn't for a leaping stab by gold Schmid great play by Goldie that would have been probably down in the corner but at least you got an out right but it bases are still loaded and that brings in Rookie of the Year Cate Jackson chrio who gets a slider up and over the plate and deposits it into left field for a grand slam makes it nine to3 game set match hanging slider O'Brien to cap things off walks the next hitter conteras so we get he puts another one on before he gets Bowers to strike out and that's when Ali finally comes out and gets him they bring in Kyle Ley who gets Adamas on strikes since up getting all seven hitters that he faced like KY he looked good but O'Brien's line two-thirds of an inning four runs two hits three walks one strikeout one grand slam after being on the iil most of the year O'Brien has appeared now in five games total this is counting that first game against the Dodgers when he got hurt he's now allowed eight runs in four Innings has given up eight hits has walked five has given up two home runs has struck out six as ER is now in 18 the ra plus is 26 League average is 100 mind you he has been terrible in every sense of the work there's no way to sugarcoat it you can't hey six strike but you're getting your brains kicked in you're walking people left and right and it's causing even more push back not like there wasn't enough already on the decision to let Sean Armstrong go who was pitching well for you who was doing his job and whom you traded Dylan Carlson for and instead of Armstrong you're getting this mess with Riley O'Brien and Armstrong is now pitching for one of your biggest Rivals a team you're trying to catch in the wild card in the Chicago cups you couldn't find any use for him the team ahead of you who has been playing very very well I think they've won six in a row something like that uh I think that's where they were at but anyway they're winning ball games they're like yes we'll take Sean AR thank you just just more salt into the wound that is the decision making by this Cardinals front office and I know they want to see Riley O'Brien they want to see if they got something in him for next year I get it but you're not totally out of this yet and he's not helping I frankly was surprised they brought him up at all like I thought they would just leave him down in Memphis and let him finish out the year there I thought that's what was going to happen but they wanted to force the force the move Sean Armstrong gets claimed by the Cubs um hasn't pitched great for them in the two appearances he's had but still that would have been a more Sha Armstrong situation and instead you got O'Brien who can't find the zone and gets pummeled so the Brewers win at 93 offensively again Pedro pz hits Two Jacks which was cool to see you know any offense you're gonna get from him and Ivon Herrera is nice as they tag team this catching position with h conteras out Paul Goldman one hit extended his streak with at least one double to five consecutive games longest by a cardinal since Matt Carpenter in 2017 luk and Baker sack flying this one he's now driven in a run in each of his last five games that he's appeared in love that for him keep it keep him going keep him in the lineup he's he's producing he's producing let him hit but overall not a great day offensively and again Freddy Peralta is a very good pitcher so I'm not taking anything away from him tough day six hits five walks you were in the game until the Grand Slam until the ri Riley O'Brien Massacre but uh offensively there wasn't a whole lot going on and when there was they try trick plays to steal runs instead of letting one of their top prospect swing the bat brilliant all right Stephen matz gets the ball tonight in game two we'll discuss it next on lock on carts you've heard us talk a lot about FanDuel America's number one sports book got something a little different for you now through September 22nd so that is 19 days according to my math all FanDuel customers can bet $5 and get a thre week trial of NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube that's pretty good that's pretty good like that excites me I like that I think that's good with the NFL season here like you're going to want that you really 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like he usually comes back and does pretty good whether it's in the bullpen or as a starter hopefully he looks good hopefully he stays healthy can keep the ball in the ballpark tonight uh Matt's decisions got to be made next year I mean obviously he's got he's done one more year on his deal and the Cardinals need to figure out what the hell they want to do do with him like who who's going to be in this rotation next year is he going to be a bullpen guy I don't know but they're going to get a look at him tonight and um it's not an easy match up the Brewers are tough um another pitcher looking to come back is Lance Lynn Ali said that the club is still deciding on how to proceed with them allowed seven hits five R runs two walks and three and two-thirds Innings and a rehab start with Memphis on Sunday which is not good uh mlb.com's John Denton reported uh on Monday afternoon that the decision doesn't have to be made until next week with Steven mats back St Louis is going to use the six starting pitchers I what do we need to see from Lance Lyn what's what's the point of him right now I want to see Michael mcgrey I want to see Gordon grappo I want to see somebody who's gonna actually be on this roster next year I don't think Lance Lenn is I I appreciate who he is and what he's done for this club and I'm sorry that he got hurt but what is the point of sending him out to the mound to start again this year for the for the Cardinals you got six guys who who you taking out are you gonna move Matts to the bull if he sucks tonight go into the bullpen with him you not tell me you're not moving Palante so what are you doing I just I don't know it's kind of a a conundrum if you will so uh they'll figure it out they'll probably make a decision we don't agree with but um I I'm just I'm just saying Lance maybe tell me your knee hurts a little bit more and we'll just you know we'll call it a year we'll get you back up to the to the team and in the clubhouse and you can hang out but 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