Rumors swirled Friday afternoon that the Cardinals may not pitch Jordan Montgomery against the Cubs, because well...... there wasn’t a ton of reason to. With the left-hander almost certainly being dealt here in the next few days before the trade deadline, risking injury or hurting his trade value on the off-chance of a blow up seemed like an unneccesary risk.
Matthew Liberatore was called up this afternoon which added more fuel to the fire, but Montgomery did, in fact make the start this evening against the Cubbies.
Here are the lineups for the Cubs and Cardinals tonight at Busch:
Cubs:
- Nico Hoener, 2B
- Seiya Suzuki, RF
- Ian Happ, LF
- Cody Bellinger, CF
- Dansby Swanson, SS
- Yan Gomes, DH
- Trey Mancini, 1B
- Patrick Wisdom, 3B
- Miguel Amaya, C
Hayden Wesnecki, SP
And the Cardinals:
- Lars Nootbaar, CF
- Paul Goldschmidt, 1B
- Nolan Gorman, 2B
- Nolan Arenado, 3B
- Willson Contreras, DH
- Tyler O’Neill, LF
- Jordan Walker, RF
- Andrew Knizner, C
- Paul DeJong, SS
Jordan Montgomery - SP
The Simpson’s Meme of “Worst loss of the season so far” seems to re-surface every single week.