Almost at .500

Watch it boys....you're flirting with .500. I must say it was awfully nice listening to Vin Scully last night...especially since the Cardinals bats seemed to fall in love with any pitch that Tomko tossed. Seriously though, Vin Scully is one of the broadcasters that I could listen to any time!! A man with a ton of knowledge of the game (for instance, last night Vin informed me that Pujols actually uses a lighter bat against right handers then left handers..or the other way around. Either way...how many of us knew that?) and describes the game like few others.
But on to the past few games. There are some good things that have come out of this west coast swing so far. The bats seem to be very slowly waking up. They're not totally back though...as games one and three with the Padres showed (although the bats can't totally take the blame for the first game..Peavy is on fire). But at least they are getting better swings in. Last night was a split game. They killed Tomko (except Pujols who is struggling more now then his entire career combined) but then only got what 4 hits after Brett was yanked. They go back to facing decent pitchers the next two nights, Wolf being a lefty also. Then off to Detroit where the Cards got ROCKED last year in inter-league play and are set up to again this year. So this next week is key....winning at least one game in that Detroit series would be pretty nice...that's all I ask right now....just one win in Detroit!!! Well one win and Pujols to actually stop popping it up. I think his struggles may be more frustrating the the team as a hole. Seems like every time that he is up he just pops it up to an infielder or something. Perfect example was last night....Kennedy and Duncan both singled to start the game, all he has to do is either have a fly to the OF or even a ground ball double play would score a run, but instead he pops it up the second. I thought for sure we were screwed when that happened with Jimmy ballgame up there, but luck bounced our way for once with Edmonds' "double" but we'll take it. Babyface Thompson has done a decent roll in his two starts so did Wells, so I'm not holding my breath. Thankfully after this rough week, we get quite a bit easier with the Pirates and Nationals coming into town.