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Game 5 of 60: Twins “Minnesota Nice,” Gently Blank Cards 3-0

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The season’s 8.3% over!

Tuesday, the Cards performed rotation replacement surgery, taking not merely a fresh forearm tendon from Daniel Ponce de Leon but like all his pitching tendons to replace Mikolas. (Note to self: Tell Mo to hire Matt Holliday as forearm consultant.)

Coming into tonight, Ponce had thrown all of 3 pitches, after he was tasked in getting that final, high-leverage out with an 8-run lead vs.