Blunt Cardinals Postpone Their Day Off and Feel 14 Losses Lost Against The Reds | St. Louis Cardinals

Eight of the 25 red hitterers he faced were unhindered and two more walked while the Reds took a 4-1 victory in a game delayed 1 hour 20 minutes into the rain. The winning streak of the Cardinals has been cut in four parts.

The club is now 2-9 after a day off this year.

Manager Mike Shildt, reviewing the many strikes that Cabrera has launched but not yet eliminated, said, "It's a strange combination. He was around the plate after the first two innings. You can see why he is here – with the stuff and the secondary grounds. That's about consistency. "

The next start for Cabrera would be Sunday in Chicago. But Shildt said, "We will evaluate it."

This new variable was taken into account by striker Michael Wacha, who came in, who scored two points and made a throw as powerful as 98 and a constant goal at 95 with a fastball.

"I loved Michael a little," Shildt said. "It was the Michael Wacha we expected to see and he hoped to see. The speed was there. The plane (down) was there. Everything was crispy. The change was better. I thought that he was really good. "

Shildt admitted that Wacha, who had launched his first relief effort a week ago after giving three home runs and six points in a heat, would be a candidate to return to the rotation.

"It's something you have to consider, of course," he said. "He is more than extended. He could start without problem.

The right-hander was 8-2 before suffering an oblique injury that ended his season a year ago this month. He was 3-2 at the start of the season, although he was not particularly scathing. Shildt said, "You talk about a talented man with a proven track record who missed time.

"Michael had a fantastic year, but you have to remember that he probably missed nearly two-thirds of last season."

The Cardinals missed opportunities early in the game to give the advantage to Luis Castillo, Reds' ace, who conceded two hits and three walks in the first two innings. But the Cardinals scored just once at Matt Carpenter's ninth in the second round of the game.

"We have the momentum," said Shildt. "(Castillo) has 81 shots after four shots, which means he throws 80 shots for four innings and we do not score a hit after the Carp circuit.

"We had difficult bats. We just have to cash in. "

The cardinal hitters fanned 14 times.

"That's more than half of the outs of the game," said Shildt. "Clearly, we do not find that acceptable. We also know that we simply do not want to put the balls into play at the start of the count, because we can not cause any damage and hit a weak ball on the ground. This is not the recipe either. "

Cabrera, although inefficient and moderately effective, has certainly missed the first three rounds, thanks to a double play in second and second goals, Kolten Wong, first.

When Yasiel Puig made a deep foul on the right, Wong switched to full sprint mode, as he did Sunday when he stole Anthony Rizzo from Chicago. This time, instead of jumping, he slipped on grass in territory – the ball was qualified as "fair" by referee Dan Bellino and went behind him for the restart of the inning .

Twice later, the Cardinals had a 1-0 lead. Carpenter started a home run for the 24th time in his career, tying his teammate Dexter Fowler and the Cardinals Hall of Fame Lou Brock for 29th overall. The shot of a 97 mph fastball hit 413 feet in the green of the central field.

But the Cardinals failed four in the first four innings and had no more shots off Castillo in six innings after Paul DeJong's second field was hit. Castillo (6-1) came out after 111 shots and the game marks the sixth time that he has participated in at least 5 1/3 inning and has given two hits or one.

"We were not able to add and that's what led us tonight," said first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.

Goldschmidt and DeJong both praised Castillo, but DeJong said, "I thought we were stretching the area a bit too far and we were going a step further.

"It's sort of far from where we might have had to go down a little. It started well and we did not manage the area very well. "

The Persistent Reds finally used Cabrera in fourth position while they led 2-1.

Jose Iglesias sent a ball to left and right field player Marcell Ozuna on Curt Casali's long run on the track. But Kyle Farmer chooses left and Jose Peraza double in the center left to continue the house of Iglesis, Farmer stopping in third place.

Cabrera did a sporting game by jumping to signal Castillo's tie to the mound and grabbed Farmer for the plate. But Nick Sensel doubled left and Peraza scored.

Deprived of blows in his first two goals, Puig knocked him to a place where no one was in the fifth, hitting a 425-foot circuit, his eleventh, center.

Cabrera was lifted after third baseman Carpenter threw Farmer's roll with two goals in the fifth. That put the runners in first and second place and brought Wacha into the match. Peraza whistled a single to center on Wacha's first throw and the score was 4-1.

The four races were imputed to Cabrera, but one was not won.

"I just wanted to have ground balls and fast exits," said Cabrera, through the team's translator. "I did not focus on getting a radiation, but only failures. I wanted to get fast outs and integrate longer into the game, deepen the game. "

He has had two good starts in Memphis, but has not found success here yet.

"The bottom line is that you can not miss twice," said Cabrera. "You can miss once, but the second time, they will hit you."