MIAMI • Cardinals manager Mike Shildt, seemingly forever trying to figure out what has gone awry with the offense, is losing some patience with his team running up the opposing starter’s pitch count but doing little with it.
“For a while, we were rightfully on board with the contact rate,” he said Monday before the Cardinals played the Miami Marlins here. “ But, candidly, for the last little bit, there’s been a little more ‘chase’ in our game. We haven’t been able to get better as the game goes, which is the thing that’s probably the most frustrating.