There are few issues in life extra necessary to Chicago Cubs followers than beating the St. Louis Cardinals.
But Cubs supervisor David Ross doesn’t share that feeling.
“I don’t,” he stated earlier than Friday’s 8-0 loss to the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. “As a manager you want them all. I want to beat everybody the same.”
You can’t blame him. At this level the Cubs are fortunate to beat anybody.
The Cubs fell to 56-76 with their sixth loss in eight video games and are on tempo to lose 93 video games.
Cardinals starter Jordan Montgomery (8-3) scattered seven hits over 6 ⅓ shutout innings, extending his scoreless streak towards the Cubs this season to 22 ⅓ innings with the New York Yankees and Cardinals.
Three of Montgomery’s eight wins have come towards the Cubs. While with the Yankees, he additionally threw seven shutout innings in an 8-0 win June 11 in New York and a one-hit shutout for the Cardinals on Aug. 22 at Wrigley Field.
The Cardinals improved to 11-6 towards the Cubs, who haven’t received a season collection within the rivalry since 2017.
Adrian Sampson (1-5) took the loss, permitting two runs and throwing 40 pitches within the first earlier than settling down and lasting 5 innings. Sampson got here off the restricted checklist — he missed the journey to Toronto as a result of he didn’t meet Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination necessities to enter the nation.
“Nice job, could’ve been a little rust,” Ross stated.
Sampson vehemently disagreed he was rusty.
“No, those were his words?” he requested. “He can think what he wants to think. I don’t see why. I was on a normal five-day this week.”
Sampson stated he labored out and went to the Cubs Class-A facility in South Bend, Ind., and threw to a catcher throughout his break. While Sampson stated the ball and roson bag had been moist, he added “those are just excuses,” and identified Montgomery was in a position to modify to the fixed drizzle.
And although Sampson stated he was “sluggish” at first, the lengthy inning was nothing he was going to lose any sleep over.
“I’ve been through a lot of worse things in my life,” Sampson stated. “Playing baseball is a lot easier than some of the things I’ve had to deal with.”
The Cubs don’t have anything to lose the remainder of the way in which, so they need to be taking part in unfastened. But how necessary is it for them to complete robust?
“Every part of it is important,” Ross stated. “I don’t need to put an excessive amount of emphasis on ending (robust). I believe the necessary half is (staying with) the method wherein we go about our enterprise every day.
“Winning is important, period. What has put us in this spot of winning this last month is just continuing to not change the mindset, even after a tough trade deadline where we lost a lot of pieces that were really helping us win. We still were able to find ways to win.”
The Cubs had been their very own worst enemy, failing to provide you with clutch hits. They completed 0-for-8 with runners in scoring place.
“We had guys in scoring position,” Ross stated. “Just couldn’t do anything with them. Put the ball on the ground a lot and got him out of some trouble.”
The Cubs put runners on first and third with no outs within the first earlier than Nick Madrigal was thrown out on a grounder and Ian Happ and Nico Hoerner struck out to strand two runners. They trailed 3-0 within the seventh when P.J. Higgins and Yan Gomes singled to place runners on the corners with no outs. But Jordan Hicks changed Montgomery and struck out Christopher Morel, Madrigal and Seiya Suzuki to flee the menace.
The Cardinals broke it open late off Sean Newcomb, who gave up 5 runs on two dwelling runs earlier than giving the followers what they wished within the eighth by strolling Lars Nootbaar with two outs. That introduced up pinch hitter Albert Pujols, who is 2 dwelling runs shy of catching Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on the all-time dwelling run checklist. Pujols grounded out to stay at 694 dwelling runs.
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