“It’s a mindset thing for him because he is so nasty, his stuff is so nasty,” Wainwright said. “When he realizes that, he’s going to be uber-aggressive and always on attack mode, and those guys (he’s facing) are going to be in really, really bad shape. I told him, ‘I just cannot wait for you to figure out how good you are.’”
On the eve of facing division rival Milwaukee for the eighth time in 22 games, the Cardinals claimed the series from the Mets with consecutive wins. The Cardinals buzzed Noah “Thor” Syndergaard for six runs in his five innings and didn’t need a home run to elevate the offense.