CHICAGO • As he gets a feel and sets a tone for how he’ll make decisions, not just suggest them, the Cardinals’ new manager, Mike Shildt, has sided with an approach he described Sunday as “manage from aggression, but still making sense.”
With a chance to have his All-Star starter Miles Mikolas carry at least one more inning or turn to a pinch-hitter to get a go-ahead run in the sixth, Shildt sided with the bat, the “aggression” move. The bet wasn’t just that Jedd Gyorko would break a 2-2 tie, but that the bullpen, asked to handle four innings, would do something it had not done all weekend at Wrigley Field.