By anyone's evaluation, Jaime Garcia has been a terrific pitcher since rejoining the Cardinals' rotation and reviving his career.
Garcia's performance, coming after three injury-torn seasons, is the winning lottery ticket that blew into Busch Stadium on a windy day, touching down softly and perfectly on the pitcher's mound.
In six starts Garcia has a diamond of an ERA, 1.76 ERA. He's retired 75 percent of hitters faced. All six of his outings were quality starts. Garcia has an authoritative strikeout-walk ratio of 4.0.
Former Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan would smile and maybe even pop a cold beer if he looked at the stat sheet and saw Garcia's incredible 67% ground-ball rate.