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Hochman: Smooth DeJong operates shortstop well in opener for Cardinals

In the Cardinals' opener at Milwaukee, the shortstop glided his body toward groundballs, time and again, coolly corralling the baseballs. Even amid chaos.

A day later, it's kind of a forgotten play from Thursday's eighth inning, because of what happened in the ninth – outfielder Lorzeno Cain stealing a Jose Martinez homer to win the game for the Brewers. But here the was smooth DeJong in the bottom of the eighth, with the score 5-4, Milwaukee. Reigning MVP Christian Yelich was on second base -- Yelich was walked by John Gant, and then Yelich advanced to second on a Ryan Braun hit to left field (could Marcell Ozuna have caught that liner?