Baseball Chatter May 27

In a surprising turn of events, Masahiro Tanaka took a shutout into the eighth inning. He didn’t walk any batters and struck out 13, including the seven he caught swinging in the first three innings, and eight of the first 11 he faced.

Baseball Chatter 05/25

Cardinals pitchers have three earned runs and a .72 ERA over their last 37 ⅓ innings – seven earned runs with a 1.25 ERA over their last 50 innings and have allowed only 67 hits over the past 104 1/3 innings. That is 5.78 hits per nine innings.