Pitching Could Be Problem for Cardinals

[ironman]

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Cardinals are about to find out if their late-season pitching swoon was just a collective exhale after months of dominance, or a reason for concern. St. Louis, coming off its second straight 100-victory season, opens the postseason Tuesday in a best-of-five division series against the San Diego Padres, who were only 82-80. But the Cardinals' recent pitching struggles could be the equalizer.

[Schwahalala]

The real kick is this - if we are lucky those questions won't be answered until the WS.

All three teams in the NL playoffs other than the birds are pretty weak offensively - we could look like studs and not be at our best.

While in the AL only the White Sox can't really hit well.

[Reggie Cleveland]

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The real kick is this - if we are lucky those questions won't be answered until the WS.[/b][/quote]

Exactly. We might be able to start Marquis three in a row against SD and still win.

Everyone's worried because we may not be in A-1 condition. First, like anyone ever is by October, and second, like we'll need to be until the Series? Unless the pitching is just flat-out awful, we still shouldn't have any problems.

[phantom]

The real problem may be Mulder pitching a day game on Thursday. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

[lazydaze]

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The real problem may be Mulder pitching a day game on Thursday. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]
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I thought Tony was situational history boy....

[Reggie Cleveland]

Unfortunately, they're all day games.