The St. Louis Cardinals suffered yet another brutal loss in their dismal 2023 campaign, and manager Oliver Marmol has had enough.
"Today was unacceptable," the sophomore skipper said Wednesday following the Cardinals' epic collapse against the San Francisco Giants, according to Frank Cusumano of KSDK.
The Cardinals led 5-3 and had a 96.5% win expectancy in the ninth inning against the Giants but wound up losing 8-5 in extras. San Francisco completed a three-game sweep with the result, extending St. Louis' losing streak to five games.
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"At some point, you've got to do something about it," Marmol continued, according to Mark Saxon of MLB.com. "You get punched in the face, punch back."
St. Louis led 5-2 after the sixth inning before the Giants' Mike Yastrzemski delivered a pair of clutch hits: an RBI single in the seventh and a game-tying two-run blast in the ninth. The Giants then tacked on three runs in the 10th off Steven Matz and relied on Camilo Doval for the save.
"I don't know if you would call it a stretch anymore, right? I mean, it's just bad baseball; we've been playing bad baseball for a while now," seven-time All-Star Nolan Arenado said. "Do I think we can play better baseball with the players we have in here? Sure. But that remains to be seen, and we're already three months in."
Arenado: "I don't know if you'd call it a stretch anymore. It's just bad baseball. We have been playing bad baseball for awhile now. Do I think we can play better baseball with the players we have in here? Sure. But that remains to be seen." #STLCards pic.twitter.com/9vnuTTXFX8
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After cruising to an NL Central title last year, the Cardinals are floundering in last at 27-42 with an NL-worst .391 winning percentage. Due to the uncompetitive division, though, they remain merely nine games back of the first-place Pittsburgh Pirates.
