It’s early. We’re only two weeks in to the 2015 season for the Cardinals, but the boys are looking pretty good.
As of yesterday, the Cards are on a four game win streak. Now, I know that’s not a huge number, but when we’re looking at a season that is only 10 games old, it’s looking gosh dern spectacular. This is a stat that is probably familiar to many of you, but something I was surprised by were a couple of the other streaks that I learned about in my little interweb research for this post.
Jhonny Peralta was on quite a hitting streak that ended yesterday. He had hit safely in 9 straight games, bringing his batting average to .325 with 1 home run, 4 doubles and 7 RBIs. That means that he had, until yesterday, gotten a hit in every game since the beginning of the season. I guess we can hope he can just begin another streak tonight.
Matt Holliday is currently on a 10-game hitting streak. He’s up one on Peralta! Holliday has not had a game this season in which he hasn’t gotten at least one hit. This feat has resulted in Matt having a .364 batting average, with one double and 6 RBIs.
Looking at how the rest of the team is doing on offense, Matt Carpenter leads the team in batting average with a whopping .381, with 1 home run and 9 RBIs. Yadi is batting .306 with 7 RBIs and 3 doubles. New addition Jason Heyward is batting .227 with his first home run yesterday and 3 RBIs. Matt Adams is right behind Heyward in batting average at .226 with 1 home run and 4 RBIs.
As we all are aware, offense, although good to have, is not the only thing that wins ball games. With a 7-3 record, the Cardinals’ pitching has looked pretty decent, with a combined ERA of 2.00. Looking at just starters, here’s what we have: Wacha 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA; Lynn 1-1 with a 1.64 ERA; Martinez 1-0 with 2.08 ERA; Wainwright 1-1 with a 2.08 ERA; and Lackey 1-0 with a 2.77 ERA. Rosenthal has 4 saves and sits at a 1.59 ERA, while Siegrist has also enjoyed a save with an ERA of 0.00.
At 7-3, the Cards are sitting on top of the NL Central with a one-game lead over the Cubs. Wainwright takes the mound against the Reds on Sunday night baseball. Let’s hope they can gain a little more lead over those Cubbies.
And…as a side note…I love high sock Sundays!
As always, Go Cards!
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