St. Louis Cardinals (3-2) at Minnesota Twins (4-1-1) Spring Training Game #6 N Hammond Stadium N March 8, 2016 Michael Wacha (17-7, 3.38 in 2015) vs. Ricky Nolasco (0-0, 20.25) K TODAY’S GAME : The St. Louis Cardinals are GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE PLAY: The St. Louis Cardinals are preparing for their 125th season of play in playing the Minnesota Twins in Fort Myers the National League and have begun their 19th spring training in Jupiter...the 2015 National League today with a first pitch is at 1:05 p.m. ...the Central Division Champions are 3-2 this spring with all three wins coming at Roger Dean Stadium. game will be streamed on Cardinals.com... K STEALING FROM THE METS: The Cardinals swiped six bases in yesterday’s win against the New Cardinals pitchers and catchers reported on York Mets...they scored nine times on 11 hits for a 9-4 win...Stephen Piscotty drove in two runs on a Feb. 17 with the first full-squad workout on single and a double and also walked...Jonathan Rodriguez had a 2-RBI double and also singled after Feb. 23. entering the game in the 5th...Jedd Gyorko had a single and 2-RBI double playing at shortstop. K PERALTA INJURES THUMB: Sr. V.P./General Manager John Mozeliak reported yesterday that short - COMING UP: St. Louis returns to Jupiter for a stop Jhonny Peralta has returned to St. Louis to get a second opinion on his injured leftnthumb...Per - single game against Miami tomorrow before alta injured his during last Saturday’s game (3/5) at Miami. heading north to face the Mets at Port St. K CARDINALS VS. TWINS: The Cardinals and Twins Lucie on Thursday...the Atlanta Braves will CARDINALS 2016 SPRING RECAP visit Roger Dean on Friday...Saturday the Car - meet today for the first of their two matchups this dinals will have a split squad playing vs. Hous - spring, with Minnesota playing at Roger Dean Stadium Record Attendance ton and at the New York Mets. next Monday, March 14...the Cards lost one of the two vs. NL ...............3-1-0 Home (3) .......19,170 games last spring and the two clubs also tied a game... vs. AL ...............0-1-0 Home Avg ......6,390 ON THE AIR: The Cardinals will broadcast 18 St. Louis and Minnesota split a four-game series during at Home ...........2-1-0 Road (2) ..........9,957 Spring Training games on their radio flagship the regular season in 2015 with each club sweeping two on Road .......... 1-1-0 Road Avg ....... 4,979 station KMOX 1120 AM with Mike Shannon, games at their home ballpark. at RDS* ............3-1-0 Total ..............29,127 John Rooney and Ricky Horton on the call... K TODAY’S HURLERS: RHP Michael Wacha will start his *Includes road games Home High ......6,900 the 50,000-watt station can sometimes be first spring game today...it is his first start since Game 3 at Roger Dean 3/6 vs. Washington heard as far south as Jupiter on a clear day. of the Division Series at Chicago, an 8-6 St. Louis loss... Stadium. Wacha started 30 games for St. Louis in 2015 and fin - ON THE INTERNET: The nine games not ished with a 17-7 record, 3.38 ERA...available out of the bullpen will be RHP Juan Gonzalez, RHP Trey broadcast on KMOX and the exhibition Nielsen, RHP Seung Hwan Oh, RHP Miguel Socolovich, RHP J.C. Sulbaran, RHP RHP Sam Tuivailala against Florida Atlantic, can be heard on car - and RHP Luke Weaver. dinals.com with Tom Ackerman, Mike Clai - K TOMORROW’S PITCHERS: RHP Mike Leake will make his first start for St. Louis and of the spring borne, Chris Hrabe and Kyle McClellan calling on Wednesday vs. Miami...Leake was signed by St. Louis at the end of December to a five-year the action. deal...also listed for tomorrow are LHP Marco Gonzales, LHP Corey Littrell, RHP Ken Rosenthal, LHP Kevin Siegrist, RHP Jonathan Broxton, RHP Matt Bowman ON THE TUBE: FOX Sports Midwest will tele - K vise 15 Spring Training games in 2016...Jim WONG-DERFUL NEWS: The Cardinals announced a five-year agreement (2016-2020) with second Edmonds, Ricky Horton, Al Hrabosky, Dan baseman Kolten Wong last Wednesday that includes a club option for 2021...Wong, 25, was the Car - McLaughlin and Tim McCarver will call the dinals #1 draft selection in 2011 out of the University of Hawaii and made his Major League debut action...the Cardinals will be televised nation - just two years later in 2013. ally on ESPN twice, a simulcast with Fox Mid - K SETTING UP CAMP: The Cardinals have 61 players on the roster with 23 invitees...the youngest west vs. BOS 3/21 and at NYM 3/25 and can player in camp for the third consecutive season is 21-year old catcher Carson Kelly...four Cardinals be seen on MLB Network exclusively on four first round picks are in camp including INF Kolten Wong (2011), RHP Michael Wacha (2012), LHP separate occassions, meaning 20 of the Marco Gonzales (2013) and RHP Luke Weaver (2014). team’s 28 spring games can be viewed on K OH, YES!: The Cardinals acquired right-handed pitcher Seung Hwan Oh on January 11...the South television. Korea native, nicknamed the “Final Boss” and “Stone Buddha”, is the Korean All-Times saves leader with 277 and has 357 saves over 498 appearances in his professional career. LAST SEASON: The Cardinals won a Major K League best 100 games en route to their third NEW FACES: In addition to Oh, players acquired during the 2015-16 off-season include catchers consecutive National League Central Division Eric Fryer and Brayan Pena, infielder Jedd Gyorko, outfielders Carlos Peguero and pitchers Matt Bow - title, marking the fifth straight year they man, Juan Gonzalez, Mike Leake, Deck McGuire, Seung Hwan Oh and J.C. Sulbaran. reached the postseason...the Cardinals lost to K WINNING WAYS: Cardinals manager Mike Matheny has led the Cardinals to 375 wins in his first the Wild Card winning Chicago Cubs 3-1 in four seasons and is the first manager in MLB history to lead his team to the postseason in each of his the NLDS, giving the Cardinals their first first four seasons...last season the Cardinals won 100 games for the 9th time in franchise history, bat - opening round exit since 2009 vs. the Los An - tling injuries to key players throughout the season, and won the National League Central Division for geles Dodgers. the third consecutive season...his 21 postseason wins since 2012 rank 3rd only to Bruce Bochy (23) and Ned Yost (22)... LAST SPRING: The 2015 Cardinals posted a K SINGLE GAME TICKETS NOW ON SALE: Single game tickets for the 2016 St. Louis Cardinals are 13-11-3 spring record (8-6-1 at home, 10-7-1 currently on sale...tickets can be purchased at cardinals.com/tickets, at the Busch Stadium box office at RDS), finishing 4th in the Grapefruit League or by calling 314-345-9000. and 5th among National League teams...they drew 98,533 fans to RDS during 15 home games, averaging 6,569 fans per game. CARDINALS SPRING SCHEDULE & RESULTS Cardinals Recent Time/ Probable Starters/ Spring Training Records Date/Opp. Result Winner-Loser-Save Record Att. Highlights Team Team 3/2 vs. FAU# (exh.) W, 13-6 Nielsen-Ragsdale -- 3,555 Wilson GS, 5RBI; Wisdom HR, 4RBI Year W-L-T Batting Avg. ERA 3/3 vs. MIA+ W, 4-3 Hefner-Narveson-Kiekhefer 1-0 5,528 Pham leadoff triple; Peguero 2H 2015* 13-11-3 .252 3.06 3/4 at HOU# L, 6-3 W.Rodriguez-J.Garcia-Minaya 1-1 4,130 Wong, Piscotty, Grichuk each 2H 2014* 11-13-1 .260 5.27 3/5 at MIA+*^ W, 3-2 Nielsen-Lazo-Socolovich 2-1 5,827 A. Garcia 2RBI-2B 2013* 16-14-1 .280 4.20 3/6 vs. WAS+* L, 5-2 Treinen-McGuire-Lee 2-2 6,900 Grichuk 2-2Bs, 5-2Bs total (of 7 hits) 2012* 16-9-2 .276 3.05 3/7 vs. NYM (ss)+* W, 9-4 Walden-Walters 3-2 6,742 Piscotty 2H, 2RBI, Team: 6 steals 2011* 14-16-1 .261 3.79 3/8 at MIN# 1:05 Michael Wacha vs. Ricky Nolasco 3/9 vs. MIA+* 1:05 Mike Leake vs. Jarred Cosart 2010 15-14-0 .280 4.95 3/10 at NYM# 1:10 Jaime Garcia vs. Noah Syndergaard 2009* 19-12-2 .290 4.35 3/11 vs. ATL (ss)*# 1:05 2008 17-10-2 .286 4.01 3/12 vs. HOU* 1:05 2007 16-10-3 .255 2.29 at NYM 1:10 2006* 15-14-1 .260 3.65 3/13 at WAS+ 1:05 2005* 15-11-2 .279 3.73 3/14 vs. MIN+* 1:05 *Reached the postseason. 3/15 OPEN DATE Note: The Cardinals moved to Jupiter and 3/16 at ATL# 1:05 began playing at Roger Dean Stadium in 3/17 at DET# 1:05 1998. 3/18 vs. DET+* 1:05 3/19 at BOS+ 1:05 Cardinals Recent Transactions 3/20 vs. MIA+* 1:05 3/21 vs. BOS%+* 1:05 March 2: Signed 2B Kolten Wong to a five- 3/22 OPEN DATE year (2016-2020) contract with a club option 3/23 vs. MIA+* 1:05 for 2021. 3/24 at WAS# 1:05 January 26: Signed OF Carlos Peguero to a 3/25 at NYM%# 1:10 minor league contract with an invitation to 3/26 vs.