There are always surprising situations in baseball, but this Sunday was truly special in Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
There are always surprising situations in baseball, but this Sunday was truly special in Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
The Cincinnati Reds have had a very slow start to the season and yet have had a rebound that seemed to continue on Sunday with a great outing by rookie Hunter Greene who kept the Pittsburgh Pirates hitless for 7 1/3 innings, until a moment came. of lack of control that caused the only race of the game to fall without connecting unstoppably. Thus the Pirates became only the sixth team in the modern era of baseball (since 1900) to win a game without hitting a hit.
Albert Pujols has played 22 years in the Big Ten, almost three thousand games and just last Sunday he had the opportunity to take the mound in a game that the St. Louis Cardinals dominated 15-2 against the San Francisco Giants in the ninth inning and although he allowed four runs (including a three-run homerun by Mexican Luis González) he did not take the smile off the Dominican’s face.
And since we mentioned González from Sonora, he also took the mound for the first time in his career and did wonderfully without allowing a run in 1.1 innings, becoming the first non-pitcher Mexican to go on the mound and hit a home run in the same match.
And to round out a historic day at Busch Stadium, perennial Red Birds drummer Adam Wainwright-Yadier Molina combined for his 203rd career win, leaving behind Warren Spahn and his catcher Del Crandall’s historic mark of 202 between 1949 and 1963 with the Braves first from Boston and then from Milwaukee… Wainwright and Molina have been teammates in St. Louis for 18 years and remain highly effective.
There is no doubt that it was a very special Sunday in the best baseball in the world.
