Let´s see what happens if we actually have pitching and defense

I talked yesterday about how the Cardinals don´t need to win every game the rest of the season, but need to concentrate on winning each series that they play.  They have now won 4 out of their last 5 series.

However, after dropping the first game in this series to Atlanta, they are now in danger of losing another series.  They would have to win both of these next two games vs. the Braves and to do that, they have to go through Tim Hudson.

Hudson, a former 20·game winner, as part of the Big 3 in Oakland, has never really hit his stride in a Brave uniform.....until this year.  He leads the league with 15 wins and is 6th in ERA.  He´s one place behind his teammate John Smoltz, who.....oh yeah.....we faced last night.  Honestly though, I think Hudson´s most impressive stat is that he´s only allowed 5 home runs all season.  Almost every one of our relievers either has that many or are well on their way there.  And our starters?  They had that many probably in May sometime.

Still, our offense is good with everybody is on and lately they have seemed to be clicking.  The key to this game will be two things.  The two things that we have not the last two games.  The first is a solid outing by our starter.  Tonight it´s Joel Piñeiro.  If he can keep us in it, I´m confident that our offense will be able to get to Hudson. 

And two, the defense.  All of the errors the past two days have really hurt the Redbirds.  They will need to regain their defensive ability in order to not let the game get out of hand.  They have eight errors the past two games.  EIGHT.  That´s ridiculous.  For a team that has the likes of Scott Rolen, Jim Edmonds, Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina, this shouldn´t be happening.  And those eight errors aren´t even including the four passed balls that Yadi had.  Are you kidding me?

Game time in 2 minutes,

Tiffany