![]() The 24-year-old righty looks like your typical Generic Cardinals Pitcher that doesn’t throw very hard - his fastball has averaged 92 mph this year - but still excels at limiting hard contact (he ranks in the 72nd percentile this year in limiting Barrels). Woodford has been used in a swingman role this year, making 23 appearances so far this year, with 5 of them being starts. 800 this month.Ĭonsidering things may be pretty well wrapped up by the time the Brewers play the Dodgers to close the regular season, this may be the toughest challenge remaining on the schedule for the Brewers. Harrison Bader and Yadier Molina have also put up OPSes above. 250/.290/.563 with 6 of his 16 hits in September being home runs. Nolan Arenado is struggling to hit or get on base consistently, but when he is, it’s doing damage this month as well - he’s hitting. 333/.405/.712 line with 7 home runs and 4 doubles in 18 games. Tyler O’Neill has put up some Christian Yelich-in-September-2018 numbers so far this month, compiling a 1.118 OPS with a. The lineup has featured several heavy-hitters as they’ve turned on the jets for a postseason push this September. ![]() There’s also that 15-run performance they put together against the Brewers in their last meeting, before Milwaukee rebounded to take the final two games of that series. If you isolate that to their last two series - sweeps over the Mets and Padres - that number goes up to 7.3 runs per game. ![]() In their last 10 games, they’re averaging 5.6 runs per game. Louis’ bats have been on fire for the better part of two weeks now. If that’s the case, could anyone rule out them knocking off the Dodgers or Giants in a single game? The Lineup It’s been a few years since we’ve truly had to worry about Cardinals Devil Magic, but the NL’s Evil Empire may be staging a comeback. They haven’t lost a series since the Brewers took 2 out of 3 from them earlier this month. Winners of 8 in a row, the Cardinals are now 3 games clear of the Reds for that spot and seem destined to take on the second place finisher in the NL West, whoever that may be. While the division race is still pretty much settled - you have to assume SOME combination of 3 Brewers wins and Cardinals losses will happen sometime in the next two weeks - the Cardinals are hot as they have taken clear control of the NL’s second wildcard spot. We’ll see if the Brewers need all 4 games against St. ![]() *The Blue Jays/Mariners winner will play the Astros and the Guardians/Rays winner will play the Yankees in a best-of-five divisial round starting Tuesday.The Brewers’ magic number to clinch their second NL Central title in 4 years is down to just 3, and they have a chance to wrap things up early against the team that’s chasing them this week. 6 Rays for all games in the best-of-three wild-card round starting Friday. 16: Game 5*: Cardinals/Phillies at Braves 15: Game 4*: Braves at Cardinals/Phillies *The Mets/Padres winner will play the Dodgers and the Cardinals/Phillies winner will play the Braves in a best-of-five divisional round starting Tuesday. 6 Phillies for all games in the best-of-three wild-card round starting Friday. The Braves own the tiebreaker over the Mets with head-to-head record. The Braves play at the Marlins and the Mets host the Nationals in the regular-season finale today.
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