St. Louis Cardinals (14-7-3) vs. Washington Nationals (10-10-4) Spring Training Game No. 25 N Roger Dean Stadium N March 22, 2017 Carlos Martinez (1-0, 0.00) vs. Max Scherzer (20-7, 2.96 in 2016) K CARDINALS 20TH SPRING TRAINING IN JUPITER: The St. Louis Cardinals are entering their 126th season of TODAY’S GAME : The St. Louis Cardinals host the Washington Nationals today at 1:05 p.m. with play in the National League and are playing in their 20th Spring Training in Jupiter. just one week remaining on the Grapefruit K CARDINALS VS. NATIONALS: The Cardinals play the sixth of League schedule...Redbird pitchers and catchers eight matchups against the Washington Nationals today...the CARDINALS 2017 SPRING RECAP reported on Feb. 13 with the first full-squad Cardinals hold a 4-0-1 advantage in the previous matchups...St. Record Attendance workout on Feb. 17. Louis is the home team in five of the eight games against the vs. NL .............10-4-3 Home (12) .....66,664 Nats, who are now neighbors to the South with a new complex vs. AL ...............4-3-0 Home Avg ......5,555 COMING UP: The Cardinals will host their Roger in West Palm Beach...the Cardinals will play their first road se - at Home ...........8-2-2 Road (12) ......76,819 Dean Stadium co-tenant the Miami Marlins to - ries of the regular season at Nationals Park, April 10-12. on Road .......... 6-5-1 Road Avg ........6,402 morrow at 1:05 p.m. and then visit the Nationals K at RDS* ............8-3-3 Total ............143,483 on Friday at 1:05 p.m. at The Ballpark of the LAST GAME: The Cardinals posted their 14th win of the spring on Mon. night, overcoming a 4-0 deficit with 10 runs in their *Includes road games Home High ......7,372 Palm Beaches. at Roger Dean vs. NYM (3/18) final four innings, as they ran past the Houston Astros, 12-6... Stadium. ON THE AIR: The Cardinals will broadcast 19 Spring Jose Martinez crushed a long two-run homer and Greg Garcia Training games on their radio flagship station KMOX had a two-run inside-the-park homer...Tommy Pham and Adolis Garcia each had triples in the win...Trevor Rosen - 1120 AM...Mike Shannon, John Rooney, Mike Clai - thal fanned five batters in his 3.0 scoreless innings of relief, allowing just two hits. borne and Ricky Horton will be on the call...the K TODAY’S HURLERS: Carlos Martinez, who made two starts for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball 50,000-watt station can sometimes be heard as far Classic, is slated to make his first Grapefuit League start since March 1 when he blanked the Mets for 3.0 south as Jupiter on a clear day. innings...Martinez was 1-1 with a 1.13 ERA (8.0 IP/1 ER) and eight strikeouts in his two starts during the WBC...Brett Cecil, Matt Bowman, Jonathan Broxton, John Gant, Sam Tuivailala, Arturo Reyes, Ryan Sherriff and Dakota Hudson ON THE INTERNET: The 14 games not broadcast are also available out of the pen today. on KMOX and the exhibition game at Memphis (AAA), can be heard on cardinals.com with Tom K TOMORROW’S STARTER: Adam Wainwright is set to make his 5th start of the spring tomorrow as he faces the Ackerman, Mike Claiborne, Chris Hrabe and Kyle Miami Marlins...Wainwright allowed 10 runs in 1.2 IP in his last start (March 17 at Mets) and is 1-1 with a 10.97 McClellan calling the action. ERA in his 10.2 IP over four start this spring. K ROSTER MOVES: Following Monday night’s game, the club optioned INF Breyvic Valera to Memphis (AAA) and ON THE TUBE: FOX Sports Midwest will televise re-assigned OF Todd Cunningham and C Gabriel Lino to their minor league camp...the move reduced the number 15 Spring Training games in 2017 with Dan of players in Spring Training camp to 44, including 12 non-roster invitees. McLaughlin, Jim Edmonds, Ricky Horton, Al Hra - bosky and Tim McCarver calling the action. For K GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE LEADERS: The Cardinals at 14-7-3 have posted their most spring wins since 2013 (16-14- the first time ever, every telecast will be 1)...St. Louis is currently 3rd in the Grapefruit League standings, trailing only the Yankees (18-7) & Pirates (16-7). streamed live on the FOX Sports GO app and at K J-MART: Jose Martinez leads the team with 16 hits and is tied with Matt Adams for the team lead in HR’s with FOXSportsGO.com. Games include 2/25 at MIA, 4...Martinez is also leading the team in runs scored (12) and RBI (13) . 2/26 vs. MIA, 3/4 vs. WSH, 3/7 vs. MIA, 3/8 vs. WSH, 3/9 vs. HOU, 3/11 vs. ATL, 3/12 at MIA, K THE HIT MEN: Jose Martinez’ 16 hits are one shy of Stephen Piscotty’s team-leading total of 17 from last spring 3/13 vs. HOU, 3/15 at MIN, 3/16 vs. MIN, 3/18 and 12 back of Shane Robinson’s 28 from 2013, the last year of extended spring training due to the World Baseball at NYM, 3/19 at ATL, 3/25 at MIA and 3/26 vs. Classic...here’s a look at the team’s recent team Spring Training hits leaders: Piscotty (17-2016); Pete Kozma (20- MIA. The Cardinals will be televised nationally 2015); Kolten Wong (18-2014); Shane Robinson (28-2013); Matt Carpenter (20-2012). on ESPN at NYM 3/28. K BUSY BODIES: Patrick Wisdom has appeared in 22 of the Cardinals 24 games this spring...Harrison Bader has logged a team-high 106.0 innings played, while Jose Martinez (101.0) and Paul DeJong (93.0) have also topped 90 LAST SEASON: The Cardinals concluded their innings played this spring...Dexter Fowler, Kolten Wong, Jhonny Peralta, Stephen Piscotty and Randal Grichuk lead 125th season of play in the National League the club with 13 games started. by finishing 2nd in the National League Central Divison and 5th overall in the Senior Circuit, K STAYING GROUNDED: Cardinals pitchers are 2nd in the Grapefruit League in groundball/flyball ratio (1.30; 248 missing the postseason for the first time since ground outs/191 fly outs), trailing only Baltimore’s staff (1.38)...the Cardinals have induced a league-leading 30 2010...Manager Mike Matheny led the the Car - double plays and have allowed only 16 home runs (the fewest among the Florida based teams). dinals to their eighth straight winning season as K WORLD TRAVELERS: Yadier Molina (PUR) is still involved in World Baseball Classic play, while Carlos Martinez the 5th-year skipper leads all Major League (D.R.), Alberto Rosario (D.R.) Seung Hwan Oh (KOR), Rowan Wick (CAN), Corey Baker (ISR) and Trey Nielsen (ITA) managers with 461 wins since he took over the have seen their teams eliminated from the tournament. position in 2012. K HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEXTER: Centerfielder Dexter Fowler is celebrating his 31st birthday today...Fowler is leading LAST SPRING: The 2016 Cardinals posted a 11- the team with a .514 on-base pct. this spring and nine base-on-balls. 13-3 spring record (6-6 at home, 8-8 at RDS), fin - ishing 9th in the Grapefruit League and 7th among National League teams...they drew CARDINALS SPRING SCHEDULE & RESULTS 90,985 fans to Roger Dean Stadium during 13 home games, averaging 6,999 fans per game. Time/ Probable Starters/ Date/Opp. Result Winner-Loser-Save Record Att. Highlights Cardinals Recent 2/25 at MIA^+* L, 8-7 Copeland-Gant-Cunniff 0-1 3,783 Carpenter 1-1, HR, 3RBI; Gyorko 2-2 Spring Training Records 2/26 vs. MIA+* W, 7-4 Mayers-Conley-Bowman 1-1 4,679 Baker 2.2 ShO IP; Molina 2H 2 RBI Team Team 2/27 vs. WSH# W, 5-4 Nielsen-Antolin-Tuivailala 2-1 3,939 3RBI-2B Martini, Lynn 2.0 ShO IP Year W-L-T Batting Avg. ERA at BOS W, 7-2 Wacha-Johnson 3-1 9,511 Jose Martinez two 2R-HRs 2016 11-13-3 .263 3.81 2/28 at ATL# L, 2-0 Collmenter-Rowland-Cabrera 3-2 5,099 Leake 3.0 ShO IP; Sierra 3H 2015* 13-11-3 .252 3.06 3/1 vs. NYM+ W, 6-1 C. Martinez-M. Molina 4-2 4,688 CMart 3.0 ShO IP; Grichuk HR, 4 RBI 2014* 11-13-1 .260 5.27 3/2 vs. ATL+ W, 9-4 Alcantara-Danks 5-2 4,292 DeJong 2-3,HR,3B, RBI; STL P’s 16Ks 2013* 16-14-1 .280 4.20 3/3 at WSH(ss)# W, 2-1 (10) Socolovich-Eitel 6-2 3,975 Wacha 3.0 IP; Socolovich W 2.0 IP 2012* 16-9-2 .276 3.05 3/4 vs. WSH+* T, 1-1 (9) None 6-2-1 6,118 Wisdom HR; Lynn 4 IP, 2 H, 1 UER 2011* 14-16-1 .261 3.79 3/5 at NYM+ W, 14-11 Leake-Harvey 7-2-1 6,594 Bader 3 H, 4 RBI; Jo.Martinez HR 3H 2010 15-14-0 .280 4.95 3/6 at MIN# L, 2-1 (10) Romero-Sherriff 7-3-1 8,615 Wong RBI-1B; Gant, Mayers 2.0 ShO IP 2009* 19-12-2 .290 4.35 3/7 vs.