The St. Louis Cardinals opened up the season with a win behind an amazing season debut from Carlos Martinez. Adam Wainwright followed up with a solid start against Jake Arrieta and the Cubs and there are a number of positive and negative take-aways from his 2017 season debut.
The 35-year old veteran held a deadly Cubs lineup to two runs over five innings and was relieved by Matthew Bowman after 82 pitches. He only allowed three hits while walking two and striking out six including this beautiful curve that got the very swing-happy Javier Baez to whiff at for the second time: