{"id":32109,"date":"2022-08-01T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T12:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rookie-andre-pallante-zeroes-in-vs-nationals-asserts-place-in-cardinals-pitching-plans-st-louis-cardinals\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T12:59:52","slug":"rookie-andre-pallante-zeroes-in-vs-nationals-asserts-place-in-cardinals-pitching-plans-st-louis-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rookie-andre-pallante-zeroes-in-vs-nationals-asserts-place-in-cardinals-pitching-plans-st-louis-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Andre Pallante zeroes in vs.  Nationals, asserts place in Cardinals&#8217; pitching plans |  st.  Louis Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"lee-article-text first-p\">\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 By the time he readied to face the middle of the Nationals order for the third time and Juan Soto shuffled and stretched in the batter&#8217;s box, Cardinals rookie Andre Pallante had already established his fastball.  They had seen the curve and the new, revved-up zoom on the slider.  He had pitch count on his side, a shutout on the scoreboard and felt \u201cmore comfortable facing\u201d Soto &#038; Co.  than the two previous times Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cHit me if you can,\u201d as another member of the team put it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>The hitters in the middle of Washington&#8217;s order that caused such trouble Saturday, Pallante retired in order in the seventh inning Sunday to propel his bid for a shutout.  The rookie right-hander pitched eight assertive, scoreless innings to lead the Cardinals to a 5-0 victory at Nationals Park and send them home from a trying road trip with a career-high note.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"inline-article-recommend\" class=\"lee-article-text trinity-skip-it\">\n<div class=\"ir-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"style-title\">\n<div class=\"block-title emphasis-h3\">\n<p><h3>People are also reading\u2026<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ir-container\">\n<ul id=\"inline-article-recommend-items\" class=\"list-unstyled chartbeat-trending-list list-popular\">\n<li style=\"display:none\">Cardinals notebook: Surging Paul DeJong slugs way into deadline decisions<\/li>\n<li style=\"display:none\">Record rain in St.  Louis area brings flooding, highway closures, one death<\/li>\n<li style=\"display:none\">Cardinals can strike at the deadline to upgrade starting rotation, not patch it<\/li>\n<li style=\"display:none\">BenFred: Tired Cardinals talking points won&#8217;t sell with another ho-hum trade deadline<\/li>\n<li style=\"display:none\">Cardinals notebook: John Mozeliak talks trade options to help now, and beyond<\/li>\n<li style=\"display:none\">10 rescue puppies in St.  Peters die in flooding;  st.  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That will be part of the discussion after the Cardinals see who has been added to the team by Tuesday night when they face the Cubs an hour and 1 hour, 45 minutes after this year&#8217;s trade deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cHe was 90 pitches in still throwing 96 mph, just getting warmed up,\u201d shortstop Paul DeJong said.  \u201cHis off-speed he mixed really well, kind of effectively wild at times, but then he would dive with his off-speed and fastball.  Love his composition out there.  He&#8217;s cool, calm and collected.  On to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>Back with the team and headed back to his St.  Louis home just in time for his birthday on Tuesday, DeJong homered for the second time in as many games since returning from months at Class AAA Memphis.  His solo homer in the sixth added punctuation to the score.  Corey Dickerson had already provided the bulk of it.  A replacement for injured left fielder Tyler O&#8217;Neill, Dickerson created the Cardinals&#8217; first run out of his double, a wild pitch and a groundout in the third inning.  In the fourth, he provided three more runs with a homer to the deck above the Nationals bullpen beyond right field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>All of the RBIs came from players who weren&#8217;t starters as of Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>The win sent the Cardinals back to St.  Louis for the most decisive 48 hours of the season that won&#8217;t involve a game.  Four members of the front office spent the weekend in Washington pursuing potential trades around the leagues via the phone and, at least twice, in person with Nationals executives.  Starting pitching is the priority, but the Cardinals see an opportunity in Washington&#8217;s willingness to deal Soto, their 23-year-old, left-handed-hitting right fielder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>The win also put gloss on a stressful three-city, two-country, eight-game trip.  The Cardinals finished it 4-4 but went 3-3 against two of the worst teams in the National League.  Marmol listed the challenges of the road trip: losing starter Steven Matz to injury in Cincinnati, playing without \u201cthe boys\u201d Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt in Toronto, and Saturday&#8217;s botched lead in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>It was along the way that Pallante (4-4) adjusted his approach to be able to author a game like Sunday&#8217;s and almost give the relievers a day off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>The only rookie to make the Cardinals&#8217; opening day roster, Pallante has stuffed the early years of a career into the first few months of a summer.  He started the season in middle relief, advanced quickly to turbulent and late-game innings, and then, when the Cardinals needed a starter, he shifted into that role, building his stamina and strength one game at a time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s learning on the fly,\u201d pitching coach Mike Maddux said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cFor a rookie, it&#8217;s one thing to make the club out of spring training and be in a position to kind of (do) middle-inning relief,\u201d Marmol said.  \u201cTo transition into bridging you to your back end in higher-leverage situations, coming in getting groundballs, bases loaded, runners on, that whole deal.  To jumping into the starting rotation.  That&#8217;s a lot of different roles, all meaningful roles, and he&#8217;s done a nice job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>Pallante left his abbreviated start in Toronto certain he could do a better job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>In Washington, he had lengthy strategy talks with Maddux, catcher Austin Romine and several teammates that \u201copened up my mind,\u201d he said, to facing major-league hitters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re not trying to walk.  They&#8217;re trying to hit the ball,\u201d Pallante said.  \u201cSo it&#8217;s definitely a different animal when the batters are more aggressive, but the batters are also smarter.  Definitely I had a learning curve a little bit.  You have to understand what they&#8217;re thinking, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>What Pallante focused on during a between-start bullpen was being more assertive with a pitch like his slider.  He had to make right-handed hitters less comfortable at the plate against him.  Rather than using the slider to entice a swing, maybe a miss, and placing it like so, he could add zip to it, challenge hitters, not avoid hitters.  He threw the slider 26 times, touching 90 mph, 4 mph swifter than his average.  Guided by Romine&#8217;s game-calling, that set up his fastball for 14 outs.  He got 12 swings and misses total and nine outs on the ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cThat really opened up a lot of my stuff,\u201d Pallante said.  \u201cAnd one changeup.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>At one point, Pallante got 21 outs from 20 consecutive batters thanks to two double plays, and he went the third inning through the eighth facing the minimum 18 batters.  The first two hitters of the ninth got base hits to end Pallante&#8217;s afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>The last tip that set the tone of his start from the beginning came from his father, who suggested that Pallante enter the game pitching as if there was a runner on already on base.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cHe came in hot,\u201d said his manager.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>The Cardinals will meet in the next week, once the trade deadline has crystallized their roster, to discuss Pallante&#8217;s schedule for the remainder of the season.  The right-hander has thrown 82 innings this season.  He still has a lot of runway before his career high of 120\u2153 innings split between Class AA, Class AAA and the Arizona Fall League last year.  Marmol said the discussion will be about reverse-engineering Pallante&#8217;s use so he does not exhaust a soft innings limit before October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>How he buzzed through the middle of the order will still be on their minds as they talk.  He got a lineout from Soto and then retired switch-hitter Josh Bell on three pitches.  The last one was a 96.7 mph fastball.  Five days after the right-handers in Toronto&#8217;s lineup feasted on his fastball, veteran right-handed hitter Nelson Cruz could not reach it and struck out on a 96 mph fastball to end the seventh inning.  Both at-bats began with a breaking ball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cTrust it.  Believe that it&#8217;s a good pitch,\u201d Maddux said.  \u201cHe used his three pitches with conviction, and good things happened.  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