Earth’s denizens have spent the last six months putting social space between themselves (or not), the Cards included. Perhaps if the Slam Diego Padres had spaced their homers from last night out more, moving one of them to Game 1, the Cards woulda taken both contests (or not).
And by virtue of not pitching until tonight’s deciding Game 3, Jack Flaherty came in with 6 days of non-pitching space since his last start on September 25th against the Brewers, in which he lasted 5 innings and gave up 3 ERs on 4 hits (1 a HR).