Lance Lynn keeps striking out hitters, with three people on at once, and just one another time.
He strikes out nine in six innings.
He leaves with his team up 3-0.
And Matt Carpenter takes a stance at home with none on and two out.
He’s missed a few games, too dizzy to focus and too exhausted to play.
Maybe he caught up on 1990s classics: The Rocketeer, the first Mission Impossible, While You Were Sleeping.
In any case, he hits his 15th double in the top of the 7th inning, and drifts from second base for the hitter, Matt Holliday.
Holliday has a Bible verse embedded into his forearm, and a buzzed head.
He hits from the right, and dropped a fly ball in the playoff against the Dodgers in 2009.
He just struck out, but not because of the past.
Jhonny Peralta once missed 50 games for using PEDs while playing in Detroit.
Today he knocks a fly ball that smacks the right field wall, scoring Carpenter and giving St. Louis a 4-0 lead.
Marc Rzepczynski pitches.
In 2011, he won a World Series with the Cardinals.
Matt Adams grounds a ball to short, and everyone is safe.
Brian Shaw pitches to Yadier Molina.
Shaw wears navy blue socks to his knees.
Oh, that every knee might bow and be covered in dirt from a ballfield.
To dust we shall return.
Shaw retired Molina on a ground ball. The first baseman catches the ball for the third out. He also wears high socks.
His name is Carlos Santana.
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