NEW YORK • The Cardinals and manager Mike Matheny have grown accustomed to questions before games about their lack of a closer, and a nebulous ninth always invites questions after a game. It’s the questions during the game, the ones about warmups and matchups and hang-ups, that the addition of Greg Holland has probably ended.
“It helps solidify that ninth and it drops one of the questions that everybody was going to be asking themselves during the whole game,” said lefty Brett Cecil. “Is it going to be me? Is it going to be him? Just kind of eases your mind a little bit because it takes away the question mark in the bullpen.