This is getting ... uncomfortable.
You expect Adam Wainwright to be a baseball wizard, a pitcher whose powers can defy the gravity that is age.
Surely his next start will be the one where his courage, his craftiness, his famous curveball, something, anything will swoop in and save him.
Then the next start comes, and it doesn't look all that different from the last.
"It's another disappointing outing from my standpoint," Wainwright said after the Cardinals lost to the Brewers 5-4 on Thursday night.
How bad is it at the moment?
Of the 99 starters in the majors who pitched an average of one inning per game, Wainwright ranks 94th in ERA: 6.