{"id":366,"date":"2023-09-13T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silly-euler.161-129-66-62.plesk.page\/?p=366"},"modified":"2023-09-13T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:26:48","slug":"pitching-committee-back-in-session-saints-win-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Pitching Committee Back in Session; Saints Win, 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2023 Season: Game 139-144 Recaps \u2013 Game Dates September 12-17, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: The Saints began the week four games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 12 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Des Moines against the Iowa Cubs. Remaining game times against Iowa are 12:08 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 7:08 Friday, 6:08 Saturday, and 1:08 Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saints 4, Cubs 1<br><\/strong>Tuesday, Sept. 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Saints got to Iowa\u2019s starting pitcher for three quick runs, then relied on their own hurlers to secure a 4-1 win over the Cubs in the opener of a 6-game series in Des Moine, IA last night (Tuesday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Paul is still four games out of the triple-A International League playoffs with 11 games to go in the regular season. (If anybody knows the mathematical chances, or oddsmakers\u2019 offerings, of the Saints securing the final spot, please shoot me an email at <a href=\"mailto:johnclinger@gmail.com\">johnclinger@gmail.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin put the Saints up 1-0 in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> inning by slashing a double that scored Larnach. Severino hit his 33<sup>rd<\/sup> home run in the minor leagues this season to open the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. Camargo followed with a triple and came home on a single by Helman to give St. Paul a 3-0 cushion halfway through the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Saints pitching \u201cby committee\u201d again because some of their starters are now with the Twins, McMahon worked the first two innings. A key moment in the game came when one of the Cubs\u2019 best hitters was charged with a pitch violation, resulting in an automatic third strike, for not \u201cre-engaging\u201d the pitcher with 8 seconds left in the pitching cycle after the timeout he had called. The International League is experimenting with this rule as well as the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) system, and they could be coming to the major leagues as early as next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two teams traded a run apiece in the bottom of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and top of the 4<sup>th<\/sup>. The Saint\u2019s run came when Camargo reached 1<sup>st<\/sup> base on a throwing error, stole 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, and scored on another single by Helman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Saints\u2019 relief committee of Schulfer (W, 6-3), Brice, Henriquez and Sands (S, 3) shut down the Cubs in the final 5-1\/3 innings with no runs, 2 walks and 9 strikeouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to Hear and See the Saints<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All games on KFAN Plus (96.7 FM), I-Heart app, MiLB.TV, Bally app (Apple only); <em>home<\/em> games on local television public programming (consult your TV listings); Saturday and Sunday <em>home<\/em> games televised on WUCW (The CW Network).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Season: Game 139-144 Recaps \u2013 Game Dates September 12-17, 2023 Note: The Saints began the week four games out of a potential triple-A International League playoff spot with 12 games remaining as they opened a 6-game series in Des Moines against the Iowa Cubs. Remaining game times against Iowa are 12:08 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 7:08 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}