We already knew that Adam Wainwright was back in 2021 at his level of previous years, and even more deserving at his 40 years, but on Wednesday he also showed it in the postseason despite the fact that his Cardinals were left on the field against the Dodgers and failed to qualify for the Division Series, he was able to collect a new postseason start, making him the second-oldest Cardinals pitcher to start a game in October (40 years, 37 days) after Pete Alexander (41 years, 222 days) in 1928.
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‘Uncle Charlie’ pitched 5 1/3 innings where he struck out five opponents, allowing four hits, two walks and a run, a product of Justin Turner’s home run in the fourth inning. In total, he made 95 pitches, 59 of them in the strike zone and he was seen quite controlled even throwing in front of a visiting public, such a fearsome offense, and in a scenario of sudden death, he undoubtedly brought out the breed and the experience. .
Likewise, it was the first time Wainwright started the Cardinals’ first postseason game since 2014 when he allowed 11 hits and six runs in 4.1 innings of work in Game 1 of the Division Series against the Dodgers.
Surrendering at 40
After his work Wednesday night, there are seven St. Louis pitching starts in postseason sudden-death games with five or more innings of work, one run or less and five strikeouts or more. Even when it comes to games of this caliber, ‘Waino’ has a total of two presentations of this type (2013 and 2021), with Jack Flaherty (2019 and 2020) being the other of this club, but ‘Uncle Charlie’ is the first with 40 laps in the sun with this work.
For his part, for the 40-year-old right-hander it was his first playoff outing of five innings or more and one run or less since 2019 when he did not allow a score in 7.2 acts in the Division Series against Atlanta, in fact, in his last appearances in October. it had not even achieved a WPA of 0.10, also accumulating negative points in two of them; So with a WPA of 0.16 on Wednesday he reached 11 career playoff appearances where he has a WPA of more than 0.10.
