By Matthew Leach / MLB.com
09/05/10 7:06 PM ET
Double-A Springfield beat Arkansas, 3-1, but still has not clinched a playoff spot in the Texas League. Brian Broderick pitched seven strong innings for the S-Cards. … Class A Palm Beach beat Jupiter, 11-5, but has been eliminated from playoff contention. Niko Vasquez went 4-for-6 with three runs and two RBIs in the win. … Luis Mateo singled and tripled in Class A Quad Cities’ 8-2 loss to Peoria. … Short-season Batavia allowed a 13-run fifth inning and lost to Auburn, 19-12. Juan Castillo went 4-for-6.
The Player of the Day is Broderick, who allowed two hits and two walks in seven shutout innings. He struck out three as he improved his record to 11-2 on the season. Broderick, who just turned 24, has a 3.66 ERA between Palm Beach and Springfield this year, with 92 strikeouts and 25 walks. He was a 21st-round pick in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft.
ST. LOUIS — Though Kyle Lohse will get the ball on Tuesday in Milwaukee, that’s all that’s guaranteed to the St. Louis right-hander for the time being.
Lohse will start after essentially skipping a turn in the rotation, pitching on nine days’ rest after a rough outing in Washington on Aug. 28. Jeff Suppan started on Sept. 1, the final day of the Cardinals’ most recent road trip, and now Suppan doesn’t have another start scheduled.
Four Cards starters are set: Adam Wainwright, Chris Carpenter, Jaime Garcia and Jake Westbrook. But with the club playing every day until the end of the season, it will need a fifth starter on every fifth day. Lohse gets Tuesday’s game, and then it’s not a certainty who pitches five days later in Atlanta.
“Kyle gets the ball Tuesday because I think there’s an anticipation he’s got the best chance to get us a [win],” manager Tony La Russa said Sunday. “And then that spot comes again [next] Sunday. So it’s an opportunity for him to justify the confidence.”
ST. LOUIS — Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is known for lineups that change a good bit from day-to-day, but he also likes having a core of players who appear nearly every day. With the Cards facing a run of 31 games in 31 days to finish the season, though, the latter preference presents some extra challenges.
Albert Pujols is dealing with a number of “ouches,” Matt Holliday has been hit on his
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