Since I am not a St. Louis Cardinals coach, I can’t say for sure that I know what the plan was for Wednesday night’s game against the Dodgers, but I’m fairly certain walking 4 batters in the first 2 innings wasn’t it. Brycen Mautz had a less-than-ideal start for the Cardinals while Yoshinobu Yamamoto was dealing for the Dodgers. That was not the recipe for a St. Louis Cardinals victory. Fortunately, baseball games have 9 innings and Wednesday night they’d play even more and it would end spectacularly for St. Louis.

The bottom of the 1st inning will take awhile to explain. It started with Shohei Ohtani walking on 4 straight pitches followed by…

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