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07.27.2009 3:12 am

DG’s 10@10: Ankiel Fights the Urge to “Surge”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The transactions will show that the St. Louis Cardinals come home tonight with two new players, each acquired in the last week. But the stats show something different.

There is a third.

Center fielder Rick Ankiel, making the most of some extra playing time with Colby Rasmus slowed by a heel injury, has been reanimated on the road trip. He finished the seven-game jag with an extra base hit in each of the…

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05.20.2009 10:08 am

DG’s 10@10: Colby Rasmus, Center of Attention

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SOUTH GRAND — The St. Louis Cardinals plan to get their starting center fielder back as soon as tonight, but that will force them to confront a looming decision about what to do with their … starting center fielder.

In Rick Ankiel’s absence to recover from his frightening crash into the outfield wall, rookie Colby Rasmus has started every game in center field. It is the position he’s earmarked to take, eventually, even as Ankiel’s replacement….

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05.19.2009 10:39 am

DG’s 10@10: Anxious Times as Cubs Come to Visit

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

TOWER GROVE — Bruised and humbled by the surging Milwaukee Brewers, the St. Louis Cardinals welcome in their rivals comforted by what’s on the horizon. Reinforcements are coming.

During this three-game series against the Chicago Cubs, the Cardinals plan to welcome back starter Chris Carpenter from the disabled list — he’ll start Wednesday — and outfielder Rick Ankiel from the DL. Ankiel spent the weekend playing in extended spring training games in Jupiter, Fla. With the…

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05.05.2009 11:46 am

DG’s 10@10: Rick Ankiel “plays without fear”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

TOWER GROVE — Catcher Jason LaRue, racing from the bullpen to the left-center field wall, was one of the first St. Louis Cardinals to reach Rick Ankiel as he lay on the warning track Monday night.  He had a view of the catch, the stumble, the crash and then he was part of the dash of teammates to Ankiel’s side.

“The most significant part of what we all I saw, I think, is that it shows…

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05.05.2009 10:19 am

Rick Ankiel update posted in Cardinal Beat

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

TOWER GROVE — The latest on St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel was just posted in Cardinal Beat, the place for breaking news on the Cardinals. There will be more news today from the ballpark, and Ankiel is expected to be there this afternoon. So check back at Cardinal Beat throughout the day for the latest.

The regularly scheduled 10@10 may be late in arriving, but it will be up ASAP — as soon as published.

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04.22.2009 10:28 am

DG’s 10@10: Molina picks off Matheny

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

DEMUN — This afternoon at Busch Stadium, the St. Louis Cardinals and Major League Baseball will launch many of the promotions for the coming All-Star Game and All-Star Summer in St. Louis. One campaign is already underway.

Witness Yadier Molina: All-Star Elect.

Last season, manager Tony La Russa — who usually chooses his causes carefully — championed Molina for what he viewed as an overdue invitation for his catcher. Molina, he argued, had added the offense to the…

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04.10.2009 10:37 am

DG’s 10@10: Remarkable Season Debuts (Plural)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

TOWER GROVE — And you thought Chris Carpenter had a monstrous season debut for the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday. Check the minors.

Down in Springfield, Mo., Brett Wallace made quite a first impression.

Carpenter took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and won his first regular-season game since he was backed by a three-run homer from Juan Encarnacion and out-pitched San Francisco’s Matt Morris in September 2006. The Cardinals’ returning — no longer rehabbing — ace allowed…

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04.08.2009 10:30 am

DG’s 10@10: Look who’s No. 1

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

TOWER GROVE — When St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa pulled outfielder Colby Rasmus aside early in spring training to tell him to take the tilt out of his swing, La Russa stressed that Rasmus could make the major-league team just by “hitting hard groundballs.”

Turns out, Rasmus would get his first major-league hit by hitting a hard groundball.

Rasmus, the Cardinals’ No. 1 pick in 2005 and No. 1 prospect the past three years, made…

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03.31.2009 12:46 pm

How Skip Schumaker at 2B is a Pivot for the Cardinals’ Offense

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The best way that St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa believed he could keep Skip Schumaker’s bat in the lineup was to put his glove to use elsewhere.

The official pronouncements came in the past week from GM John Mozeliak and La Russa that Schumaker will open the regular-season as the Cardinals’ starting second baseman — will, in fact, be now designated on the roster as a capital-I Infielder. Schumaker openly…

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03.24.2009 9:57 am

That other thing Skip Schumaker has been working on

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JUPITER, Fla. — Take a moment to do some math. Pull out a calculator and consider if St. Louis Cardinals leadoff hitter Skip Schumaker had just 11 more hits against lefthanded pitching last season. Just 11. Say, maybe four bloop singles to left field, four grounders that found holes, and three well-struck liners, maybe even a couple for doubles.

With those 11 hits — just 11 — Schumaker would have finished the season with a modest…

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02.28.2009 11:45 am

Yadier Molina to be featured player for Rawlings

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JUPITER, Fla. — They’re calling it a campaign that focuses on a few “rising stars”, and representatives from Rawlings have made several surgical strikes into the Grapefruit League to film the four players selected to appear in docu-commercials. This morning, they visited Camp Cardinals.

Catcher Yadier Molina is one of the four. Have Gold Glove, will shine.

“His reaction upon receiving his first Gold Glove was really something that stood out,” said Lindsey Naber, a brand manager with…

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02.27.2009 11:00 am

Mets out-Cardinal the Cardinals, bat pitcher No. 2 (the lineups)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Down Gil Hodges Road and not too far from Tom Seaver Curve, the New York Mets have turned Field No. 7 here at Tradition Field into a replica of Citi Field, their new ballpark in Queens. The dimensions of Field No. 7 have been cut and reformed to the exact measure of Citi Field’s — right down to the quirky corner cut out of right field.

It was on this mini-Citi…

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02.25.2009 10:08 am

Why doesn’t Albert Pujols bat 4th? Ask The Man

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JUPITER, Fla. — With his first batting order of the spring pinned to the corkboard in the clubhouse, manager Tony La Russa met the media this morning to deal with some real lineup sticklers.

We read that lineup like it’s a horoscope, like the names fluttering here and there from spot to spot are so many tea leaves. Like it’s the Rosetta Stone to La Russa’s true feelings about his ballclub and the players that make…

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02.24.2009 3:24 pm

Team Ankiel wins game, as La Russa bends rules

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JUPITER, Fla. — Infielder Skip Schumaker’s first diving play in a game this spring training came this afternoon at about 1:30 p.m. EST, for those of you keeping score. Dashing to his left, Schumaker dove, snared Joe Thurston’s speedy grounder, got to his feet, and …

Threw high to first base.

“I have to realize I have more time,” Schumaker said later. “I can only learn that in games.”

Schumaker said his goal is to improve each day…

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02.18.2009 2:09 pm

Ringside seat for BP: 1st-Pick Wallace and Salas Video

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JUPITER, Fla. — Young righthander Fernando Salas was throwing his first round of live batting practice this spring and some of the veterans stepping in against him were taking swings as if they had seen him dozens of times before. Catcher Jason LaRue was in the group that hit off Salas, and after drilling a fastball over the fence in left field he explained why as he stepped out of the cage.

“That’s what happens when you…

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