If he has something, does Cards manager Mike Matheny make the umps check?
Tony La Russa, the Cards' manager, wasn't having it, and over by the dugout he lectured the sportswriter pack about the "abusive" nature of the media.
Croix de guerres, also, please, for Carlos Martinez, an excitable twenty-three-year old Carelieverreliever, who struck out two batters in the eighth, and to the Cards' manager, Mike Matheny, who left him in there to pitch to Ortiz, with a man aboard; Ortiz singled but to no avail.
3.12am BST Red Sox 5 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 5th Back-to-back force outs by Napoli and Gomes means that Wainwright is through five, and he deserves a lot of credit for hanging in there - he is approaching 100 pitches, Cards manager should bring him out for another.
But Cards manager Tony La Russa was defiant.
The captain is Cards' manager Johnny Keane; his "lieutenant" is Stan Musial.
A "failure to communicate" led to the Cardinals playing Keystone Kops with their relief pitchers in game 5. Cards manager Tony La Russa says it's all his fault.
"Like all the people in the stadium, I think it wasn't a yellow card," the manager said.
Merrill Halpern, card services manager for the credit union, said that with Canada and Mexico now embracing chip and PIN cards, along with Europe and many other parts of the world, it was time to make the switch.
"We felt very strongly at the time that the offence did not warrant a red card," said manager Jim Bentley.
