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St. Louis Cardinals (20‐8‐4) at Springfield Cardinals Spring Exhibition ◆ Hammons Stadium, Springfield, Mo. ◆ March 31, 2017 Mike Leake (3‐1, 3.81) vs. Jack Flaherty ❑ CARDINALS 20TH SPRING TRAINING IN JUPITER: The St. Louis Cardinals are entering their 126th season of TODAY’S GAME: The St. Louis Cardinals play their final exhibition game today before opening play in the National League and are in the final week playing in their 20th Spring Training in Jupiter. the regular season on Sunday...the team plays ❑ CARDINALS VS. SPRINGFIELD: The Cardinals are playing the against their Double‐A affiliate ‐ the Springfield Springfield Cardinals in a final exhibition game of the 2017 CARDINALS 2017 SPRING RECAP Cardinals ‐ with a first pitch of 5:05 p.m. ...the spring season...St. Louis last played in Springfield April 2, 2012. Record Attendance game is one of two exhibition games after 32 ❑ LAST GAME: The Cardinals Played an exhibition game in vs. NL.............15‐5‐4 Home (16).....90,318 spring training games...Redbird pitchers and Memphis yesterday against the Triple‐A Redbirds, winning 9‐3 vs. AL ...............5‐3‐0 Home Avg ......5,645 catchers reported on Feb. 13 with the first full‐ ...the game started with a 5‐run first highlighted by a three‐run at Home.........12‐2‐2 Road (16) ......98,092 squad workout on Feb. 17. home run from Jhonny Peralta followed by a Yadier Molina solo on Road .......... 8‐6‐2 Road Avg........6,131 homer...Aledmys Diaz and Jedd Gyorko also homered...the Car‐ at RDS*..........12‐4‐3 Total............188,410 *Includes road games Home High......7,372 COMING UP: St. Louis has an open date on Sat‐ dinals employed eight relief pitchers in the nine‐inning game. urday, April 1, with no scheduled activities as at Roger Dean vs. NYM (3/18) they will enjoy a league mandated day off...the ❑ SWEET GRAPEFRUIT: The Cardinals 20 wins during the 2017 Stadium. Cardinals play their frist game of the regular sea‐ Spring Training season were the team’s most spring wins since son on Sunday night at 7:35 p.m. against the moving from St. Petersburg to Jupiter in 1998, and the most since 1997 when the club won 21 games (21‐11)...St. World Champion Chicago Cubs as the Sunday Louis trailed only the New York Yankees (23‐8) in all of baseball in both wins and win pct this spring. Night ESPN Game of the week. ❑ TODAY’S HURLER: Mike Leake will start today against the Double‐A Springfield Cardinals... Leake will be starting for a seventh time prior to the regular season opener, as he had six spring training starts... he and Michael Wacha ON THE AIR: The Cardinals broadcasted 19 Spring paced the team with 26.0 innings pitched this spring. Training games on their radio flagship station KMOX ❑ TSUNAMY TO START OPENER: Carlos Martinez has been tabbed by the Cardinals as their Opening Day starter 1120 AM...Mike Shannon, John Rooney, Mike Clai‐ on Sunday, April 2 vs. Chicago...it will be the first Opening Day start for Martinez and the first by a Dominican‐ borne and Ricky Horton were on the call...the born Cardinals pitcher since Joaquin Andujar did so on April 9, 1985 at the New York Mets. 50,000‐watt station can sometimes be heard as far south as Jupiter on a clear day. ❑ ROSTER MOVES: Prior to yesterday’s game at Memphis, the Cardinals reduced the number of players still on their roster for Spring Training to 28, including two non‐roster invitees...the team placed RHP’s John Gant (right ON THE INTERNET: The 14 games not broadcast groin), Alex Reyes (right elbow) and Trevor Rosenthal (right lat strain), along with LHP Tyler Lyons (right knee) on on KMOX and the exhibition game at Memphis the 10‐day disabled list...the team recalled RHP Sam Tuivailala from its Memphis (AAA) roster...following the final (AAA), can be heard on cardinals.com with Tom spring game in Jupiter, Fla., on Wednesday the club placed Zach Duke (left elbow) on the 60‐day disabled list and Ackerman, Mike Claiborne, Chris Hrabe and Kyle purchased the contract from Memphis of catcher Eric Fryer...the team also re‐assigned INF Paul DeJong, RHP Ar‐ McClellan calling the action. turo Reyes, LHP Ryan Sherriff and OF’s Harrison Bader and Chad Huffman Wednesday. ❑ DOUBLE DOWN: Mike Leake induced eight double plays this Spring Training season with seven coming in the ON THE TUBE: FOX Sports Midwest televised 15 last 11 innings over two starts...the eight leads all MLB pitchers and is five shy of his total from 2016 (13). Spring Training games in 2017 as Dan McLaugh‐ lin, Jim Edmonds, Ricky Horton, Al Hrabosky and ❑ STAYING GROUNDED: Cardinals pitchers trailed just the Baltimore Orioles (1.41) this spring and are tied with Tim McCarver called the action...for the first Cincinnati in groundball/flyball ratio with a 1.39 average (346 ground outs/249 fly outs)...the Cardinals induced time ever, every telecast was streamed live on an MLB‐leading 43 double plays and allowed only 18 home runs (the fewest among all teams). the FOX Sports GO app & at FOXSportsGO.com. ❑ DEFENSE WINS BALLGAMES: The Cardinals pitching staff leads Spring Training with a 3.28 ERA and the team ranks 3rd in fielding percentage (.982)...last season, the Cards ranked 25th in fielding during the regular season. LAST SEASON: The Cardinals concluded their ❑ THESE ‘BIRDS ARE FLYIN’!: The Cardinals hit a Major League best 17 triples this spring...13 different Cardinals 125th season of play in the National League have raced out a triple with Dexter Fowler leading the way with three and Randal Grichuk & Kolten Wong hitting by finishing 2nd in the National League Central two apiece...the Cardinals hit 32 triples in 162 games in 2016...the Cardinals have stole 22 bases this Spring. Divison and 5th overall in the Senior Circuit, missing the postseason for the first time since ❑ THE HIT MEN: Jose Martinez picked up his team‐leading 19th hit in Wednesday’s game and Harrison Bader sin‐ 2010...Manager Mike Matheny led the the Car‐ gled for his 18th spring hit...both surpassed the 2016 team‐lead of 17 by Stephen Piscotty last spring...Shane dinals to their eighth straight winning season as Robinson recorded 28 hits in 2013, the last year of extended spring training due to the World Baseball Classic... the 5th‐year skipper leads all Major League here’s a look at the team’s recent team Spring Training hits leaders: Piscotty (17‐2016); Pete Kozma (20‐2015); managers with 461 wins since he took over the Kolten Wong (18‐2014); Shane Robinson (28‐2013); Matt Carpenter (20‐2012). position in 2012. ❑ BUSY BODIES: Outfielder Harrison Bader led the Cardinals in games this spring appearing in 28 of the 32 spring contests and logged a team‐high 133.0 inning splayed...Jose Martinez was close behing with 132.0 innings LAST SPRING: The 2016 Cardinals posted a 11‐ played...Dexter Fowler, Randal Grichuk and Stephen Piscotty each started a team‐high 19 games to lead the squad. 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 3/4 vs. WSH+* T, 1‐1 (9) None 6‐2‐1 6,118 Wisdom HR; Lynn 4 IP, 2 H, 1 UER 2012* 16‐9‐2 .276 3.05 3/5 at NYM+ W, 14‐11 Leake‐Harvey 7‐2‐1 6,594 Bader 3 H, 4 RBI; Jo.Martinez HR 3H 2011* 14‐16‐1 .261 3.79 3/6 at MIN# L, 2‐1 (10) Romero‐Sherriff 7‐3‐1 8,615 Wong RBI‐1B; Gant, Mayers 2.0 ShO IP 2010 15‐14‐0 .280 4.95 3/7 vs. MIA+* W, 9‐2 Wainwright‐Koehler 8‐3‐1 5,118 Fowler 2H; Peralta 3B & 2B 2009* 19‐12‐2 .290 4.35 3/8 vs. WSH#* W, 9‐3 Wacha‐Strasburgh 9‐3‐1 5,641 Fowler, Diaz, Bader 2H; Wacha 3.0IP 2008 17‐10‐2 .286 4.01 3/9 vs.