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04.14.2009 10:30 am

DG’s 10@10: Playing Late-Inning Roulette

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

TEMPE, Ariz. — The St. Louis Cardinals have three saves so far this season and they are by three different players — and not one save is from the guy who broke spring training ostensibly as the club’s closer.

Manager Tony La Russa’s take on the ninth-inning jumble can be summarized: Get used to it.

After giving young gun Jason Motte two save opportunities and see him struggle in both, the Cardinals have elected to slide him out…

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04.13.2009 10:51 am

DG’s 10@10: Just Call it Cardinal of the Week

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

TEMPE, Ariz. — If St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols scores the National League Player of the Week award for the first week of this season it will be the second consecutive P-O-W award he’s won dating back to the last week of last season.

It will also be an upset of sorts

The Cardinals present two candidates for the weekly award: Pujols, who had that seven-RBI Saturday, and Kyle Lohse, whose Easter Sunday shutout punctuated…

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