With his complete game on Sunday, St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright extended the team’s streak of seven or more innings pitched while allowing two or fewer earned runs to six games, longest since 1986.
With a depleted bullpen as a result of their 20 inning marathon Saturday, the St. Louis Cardinals needed Adam Wainwright to go deep into his Sunday night start against the New York Mets on national television.
The 28-year-old right-hander complied, pitching a complete-game victory during which he allowed three runs. Only two were earned due to a second-inning error when Wainwright slipped in the midst of making a throw to first base.
75 of Wainwright’s 107 pitches were strikes. He yielded four hits, two walks and struck out nine. It was his third win without a loss and his season ERA is 1.50.
Further, Wainwright extended the Cardinals current string of seven or more inning starts while allowing two or fewer earned runs to six, a streak he began in his prior outing against Houston last Monday.
That feat was last achieved by Cardinals starters almost a quarter of a century ago, in April of 1986. That rotation was led by Greg Mathews and John Tudor, with two such starts each. Interestingly, St. Louis won only three of the six 1986 contests, while they have taken four of the six in the current run.
The baton is now passed back to Brad Penny, who gets the call in Arizona on Monday night. He yielded just one unearned run in his prior outing against Houston last Wednesday.
Six consecutive starts of seven or more innings and two or fewer earned runs, Cardinals (1986-2010)
| Player | Date | Opp | Rslt | App,Dec | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Greg Mathews | 6/13/1986 (1) | CHC | W 1-0 | GS-9 ,W | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| John Tudor | 6/13/1986 (2) | CHC | L 2-3 | GS-10 | 9.1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Ray Burris | 6/14/1986 | CHC | W 1-0 | GS-8 ,W | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Bob Forsch | 6/15/1986 | CHC | L 3-4 | GS-8 | 7.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Greg Mathews | 6/17/1986 | PIT | W 7-2 | CG 9 ,W | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| John Tudor | 6/18/1986 | PIT | L 1-2 | GS-9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Player | Date | Opp | Rslt | App,Dec | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Adam Wainwright | 4/12/2010 | HOU | W 5-0 | GS-8 ,W | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Brad Penny | 4/14/2010 | HOU | W 2-1 | GS-7 ,W | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kyle Lohse | 4/15/2010 | HOU | L 1-5 | GS-7 ,L | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Chris Carpenter | 4/16/2010 | NYM | W 4-3 | GS-7 ,W | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Jaime Garcia | 4/17/2010 | NYM | L 1-2 | GS-7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Adam Wainwright | 4/18/2010 | NYM | W 4-3 | CG 9 ,W | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
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This Rodrigo Lopez sounds like the kind of chump that can cure a hitting slump. Lets hope the boys take advantage. I feel like tonight’s game will tell us something about whether Penny is for real, or if he’ll be one of those up and down guys.
Also, wanted to mention that the streak in 1986 seems to have been a four man rotation. Having five guys doing it is even more impressive.
Looking forward to Thursday to see if Garcia can go toe to toe with Linecum!
Holy cow CC, that will be great. My prediction, we’ll give him a hair cut.
Woops, that should be Friday but with the off day on Thursday Tony could juggle the rotation.
He could skip Garcia to get him back in the fifth spot
Tis possible. Starters for SF have not yet been announced.
They will take into account Lohse record in SF……..and a Carpenter start against Timmy. Garcia won’t be pampered at this point. They will gladiator him. His value can only escalate…….look for a highly contested road trip.
I must admit Albert looked pretty bad that last AB. K in 3 pitches.
Nice shot by Matt.
Yadi is lifting his right elbow in imitation of Albert………he is looking for something, that ain’t MM. Colby has lifted his hands into oblivion now. That doesn’t help. Like it or not, this is a guy Craig would torch. He will never get an at bat. The Az announcers treat Albert like a god. Then they say thing like……………..”boy you rarely see Albert do that”……..
Tell me Holiday isn’t sitting behind him thinking A-Hole.
There does seem little reason to swing on 3-0 with the clean-up hitter on deck, whatever your name is.
he is going to Mott against these guys?
That was a great pitch by Penny. May have saved the game. These guys will kill Mott, so I hope that goes away.
Its a deep fence in the alleys. 400 foot outs.
Best baseball of the year. Double ….. sacrifice…….scoring contact. Real baseball.
Those guys have some beautiful swings. Don’t like this situation for Motte.
The AZ post game show is supposed to have a breakdown of why Lopez was defeating Pulols swing. Wish I had that program.
We need to take this ump on the road all week.
I don’t know about Colby’s one long sleeve one short sleeve look.
He was deliberately lowering his hands on that at bat. Made a good read on a likely pitch for a 2/2 count, and took it where it wanted to go………………better all around by Colby.
Solid. Allot of people doing there job in those final innings. Lets see if we can wait Haren out a bit.
I, for one, certainly hope our batters continue to suffer from their problems both mental and technical and our bullpen continues to have problems.
What if the good swings happen when the Cards are mentally unstable and bonkers between the ears?
And it is when they are mentally stable and well-adjusted, this is when their swings become lousy?
Is there any evidence that indicates bad thoughts cause bad swings? Perhaps instead good swings are caused by bad thoughts, whereas good thoughts produce lousy swings?
This is what happens with artists. If a writer or painter is mentally troubled, he/she is inspired to be more creative and to paint a better painting or write a better book. The happy artist can be boring.
I wonder what the latest scientific consensus is among baseball coconut doctors.
Jumbo, rarely do I chuckle out load when reading a post here, but yours accomplished that. I have a visual of a team of one-eared baseball players…
All Things are made up of speeding “light’ particles ……… some just not in such a hurry to be more……. or less…….. than a flower.
“This is what happens with artists. If a writer or painter is mentally troubled, he/she is inspired to be more creative and to paint a better painting or write a better book. The happy artist can be boring.”
The above statement is the thought that desires “question marks”, and yet it has none. Many steps to be taken. An eternity, not impatiently waiting.
The totality of creation comes into being as an affirmation of Gods desire to manifest “self”. The creation is nothing more than an expression, an interplay of aspects of that desire (space/time and matter), our lives but widows to perceive (its) (our) ((his) (my) beauty.