St. Louis Cardinals (24-21) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (18-29) Game #46 N Busch Stadium N May 21, 2014 Michael Wacha (3-3, 2.82) vs. Brandon McCarthy (1-6, 5.01) K BIRD WATCHING: The 2013 National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals are in their 123rd season of play TONIGHT’S GAME : The Cardinals are playing the in the National League...the Cardinals won 5-0 for their 7th shutout on the year, behind a complete game 1- final series of this homestand with Game 2 hitter by Adam Wainwright...Matt Adams and Jhonny Peralta both homered and each drove in two runs. tonight vs. the Arizona Diamondbacks...first BREAKING IT DOWN: The 2nd place Cardinals moved to just 2.5 games back of 1st place Milwaukee and 3.5 pitch is 7:15 p.m. CDT...following the rainout last games in front of 3rd place Cincinnati in the NL Central...the ‘Birds are 11-7 at home, 12-14 on the road. Wednesday, the Cards are playing nine games K this home-stand against Chicago Cubs (2-1), At - ONE-HIT WONDERS: Last night’s complete, one-hit game by Adam Wainwright was his career low complete lanta (2-1) and Arizona (1-0)...the Braves and D- game effort (previous low was two, four times)...it marked his 18th complete game and 8th career shutout... Backs are the first non-division opponents the the one-hitter was the fourth at Busch Stadium, with Shelby Miller’s performance on 5/10/13 vs. COL the only Cardinals are facing at home, while Arizona is other complete game by a starter...the others were Michael Wacha (8.2IP) & Trevor Rosenthal (0.1 IP) on 9/24/13 vs. WSH and Chris Carpenter (7.0IP), Ryan Franklin (1.0IP) & Dennys Reyes (1.0IP) on 4/9/09 vs. PIT. also the first team from the N.L. West St. Louis has faced this year...the Cardinals are in a stretch K ADD ROBINSON TO THE ROSTER: The Cardinals announced today that they have reccalled OF Shane Robin - of playing 18 of 21 games at home coming after son after optioning Joey Butler following last night’s game...Robinson began the season with St. Louis but was a stretch of 20 out of 26 games on the road. optioned on 4/27 to Memphis (AAA)...in 18 games with Triple-A, Robinson batted .371 (23-for-62) with a .443 on-base pct., hitting a lofty .524 (11-for-21) against left-handed pitching. CARDINALS vs. ARIZONA: K SHADES OF ‘85: This year’s team has an eerie similarity to the 1985 Cardinals who were 19-20 after 39 Season: 6 games; next meeting 9/26-28 games, the same as this year’s time...that 19-20 mark proved to be the last time the ‘85 team was under .500 2014: 1-0 (0-0 at ARI, 1-0 at STL) that season and in fact, they went on to win 101 games and face Kansas City in the World Series ...after getting to 2013: 3-4 (1-2 at ARI, 2-2 at STL) 21-20, the ‘85 team played a three-game series at Atlanta, emerging 23-21, and winning their next game vs. All-Time: 67-46 (18-10 at Busch Stadium III) CIN went to 24-21...the current team entered the series with Atlanta at 21-20 too, went 2-1 vs. the Braves and Last Time STL sweep: 5/7-9/12 at ARI won last night to improve to 24-21 as well. Last Time ARI sweep: 9/7-9/07 at ARI K MOTTE IS BACK: Hurler Jason Motte was activated from the disabled list yesterday, after missing all of 2013 RECORD BREAKDOWN and 44 games this season recovering from Tommy John surgery...Motte pitched nine games in spring training By Day By Month of 2013 before suffering a strained elbow and ultimately having surgery on May 7...he pitched in six games By Day By Month during a rehab assignment; four games (3.2 innings) with Springfield (AA) in which he allowed no runs and just Monday 4-3 Spring 11-13-2 Tuesday 5-2 March/ April 15-14 one hit, walking one and striking out three, and two games with Triple-A Memphis...he went 1.0 IP on 5/13 Wednesday 2-4 May 9-7 (H) and 2.0 IP on 5/15 (H, 2K) at Memphis...LHP Sam Freeman was optioned following the game Sunday. Thursday 3-1 June 0-0 BIRD BANTER... vS. ARIZONA IN 2014: .294 (10-34) 2 HR HOMESTAND: .272 (63-232) 2 HR Friday 2-5 July 0-0 K Saturday 4-3 August 0-0 #32 MATT ADAMS: Streak: 4G (6-15, .400) HR Series: 1-4, .250 HR Homestand: 8-27, .296 Sunday 4-3 September 0-0 [ Hit 2-run HR yest, 1st since 4/30...has 2 triples...14-2Bs are 7th in N.L. ...2nd on team w/.308 BA (15th NL)...52 H are T10th in NL ...T2nd NL with 18 multi-hit games...has 80 career hits at Busch, 77 on the road. By Seriies K 2G 3G 4G 5G #8 PETER BOURJOS: Streak: 2G (3-7, .429) Series: DNP Homestand: 5-19, .263 Won --- 8 --- --- [ Had 2 bunt singles Sat..; 6th multi-hit gm...first career ejection Fri. ...upped BA from a low of .154 to .230 this month...7 of Lost --- 4 1 --- his 18 hits have gone for extra bases...he & Adams have team-high 2 triples. Split --- --- 1 --- K #13 MATT CARPENTER: Streak: 2G (3-6, .500) Series: 1-4, .250 Homestand: 6-28, .214 Sweeps --- --- --- --- [ Had 12th multi-hit gm of season Sun., and reached by walk 3 times...had 4th multi-RBI game 5/5, 1st since 4/13...scored in 13 Opp. Sweeps --- --- --- --- of last 22 games; 7th in NL runs (30)...5th in NL with 28 BB...had 1st career 4-hit game 4/23 at NYM. By DIIVIISIION K #21 ALLEN CRAIG: Streak: 0-9 Series: 0-4, .000 Homestand: 6-28, .214 Home Road Total [ 3 hits Fri. for 2nd 3-hit gm this yr (4H, 4/30 vs. MIL)...has 35 of his 58 TB’s (60%) in his last 17 games...has 20 hits w/runners NL Central 9-6 7-8 16-14 on base (3rd on team, Holliday 26)...has hits in 24 of last 34 games. NL East 2-1 5-6 7-7 NL West 1-0 0-0 1-0 K #48 TONY CRUZ: Streak: 0-9 Series: DNP Homestand: 0-1, .000 AL East 0-0 0-0 0-0 [ Batting .278 (5-18) w/3 RBI in his 5 starts...had RBI at NYM (4/24) & 2 RBI at WSH (4/19)...batted .357 (10-28) w/RISP in 13. AL West 0-0 0-0 0-0 K #33 DANIEL DESCALSO: Streak: 0-3 Series: DNP Homestand: 0-2, .000 TOTALS 12-7 12-14 24-21 [ Pitched 0.1 ing 5/12; 1st G as pitcher in pro ball...has team-high 4 PH (4-10, .400)...has starts at 2B, 3B and SS this year. K #3 MARK ELLIS: Streak: 0-7 Series: DNP Homestand: 1-8, .125 MIKE MATHENY: Mike Matheny, who in 2012 be - [ RBI-1B 5/12... came off DL 4/15 (L Knee)...started 18, played in 21 of 28 games from 4/15-5/15 came the 49th manager in St. Louis Cardinals his - K #7 MATT HOLLIDAY: Streak: 5G (6-19, .316) Series: 2-4, .500 Homestand: 7-27, .259 tory, took his team to the World Series in his [ Has team high 25 RBI, T14th in NL & T2nd most RBI in NL w/fewest HR (2); MIA’s McGehee (28 RBI/1 HR) & NYM Wright (25 second season at the helm with a league-best 97- RBI/2HR)... .383 RISP BA, 3rd NL...9 RBI shy of 1,000 career...reached safely in all 19 home gms...has 7 GWRBI (2nd, NL). win season in 2013...in 2012, Mike guided the Car - K dinals to the N.L. Championship round of the #19 JON JAY: Streak: 1G (1-3, .333) Series: 1-3, .333 Homestand: 2-6, .333 playoffs ...he is the first Cardinals manager to lead [ Made 1st start since 5/11 last night & 2Bed... is 2-9 as PHer...5 multi-hit gms... .308 BA (45-146) since 9/15/13...owns .313 BA his teams to the postseason in each of his first two (10-32) in 7th inn. or later seasons, having already managed 30 postseason K #4 YADIER MOLINA: Streak: 8G (14-30, .467) Series: 2-4, .500 Homestand: 12-25, .480 games in his first two seasons...Matheny, 43, had [ 6 of last 8 gms have been multi-hit gms.; has 18 multi-hit gms (T2nd NL)...53 hits are T7th in N.L. ...tops (.331) on team in a 13-year Major League career playing with MIL, batting; 5th in NL ...has reached base safely in 35 of 40 GP...15G hit streak 4/7-25...T2nd on team in HR (4), 2nd RBI (22). TOR, STL and SF, winning four Rawlings Gold K #27 JHONNY PERALTA: Streak: 1G (2-4, .500) HR Series: 2-4, .500 Homestand: 7-22, .318 Gloves (‘00, ‘03-’05), and retiring from the game [ Reached base in 20 of 21, including 19 straight...collected 1st 3H gm of yr 5/13...leads team w/ 9 HR (T6th NL)..