Grichuk hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning and a game-ending RBI single in the ninth, helping the Cardinals top the Chicago Cubs on Sunday. Martinez said. "When I'm watching those videos and I'm scoring, pumping around, jumping around-it's going to be pretty special".
Jose Martinez sparked the winning rally with a pinch-hit double against Mike Montgomery, who closed out the World Series in November for Chicago's first title since 1908.
Yadier Molina, who announced his contract extension just hours before first pitch, followed that up with the first no-pitch intentional walk in major league history. Greinke is hoping for a better start than last year's opener, when Colorado tagged him for seven runs in four innings. "So, it's good to get any (win), but definitely opening day against them is a little sweeter". Even if left fielder Schwarber carries his World Series success into 2017, right fielder Jason Heyward has his work cut out for him after hitting.230 in 2016.
"It's going to be the same message, but different", Maddon said at the onset of camp. "The ball really did jump right there".
Cleveland's starting pitchers remain the class of the AL with Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco, Danny Salazar, Trevor Bauer and Josh Tomlin all winning at least 11 games a year ago.
Grichuk walked, but Edwards got out of the inning when Martinez grounded into a double play.
Jon Lester kept Chicago in the game with five effective innings despite not having his best stuff. They will host the Cubs Friday, Saturday and next Sunday at Miller Park, then travel to Wrigley Field later in the month before returning home to face the Cardinals and Reds.
Matheny says Martinez was fun to watch. There Pitching was fantastic and they have everybody back from injury. For the first time since the Cardinals' first title in 1926, they are the team with the longest championship drought in this rivalry.
McQueeny, 24, and his roommate and co-worker, Nick Sengheiser, a 25-year-old Cardinals fan, sipped on a couple of beers as they took in the scene near the front of the stadium on a sunny, lovely day in St. Louis. He Said it was a good at bat for Contreras and he made it possible for us to get back into the game.
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The comments were made by a Foreign Ministry official and carried Sunday by North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency. South Korean and United States forces are also involved in annual joint military drills that run until the end of April.
The courageous new world of Cubs baseball began at 7:38 p.m. on Sunday at Busch Stadium in front of a sellout crowd and a national TV audience.
The first game at newly named Guaranteed Rate Field wasn't guaranteed - it rained in Chicago, the Tigers and White Sox never got started and were washed out. "Ya-di!" before he grounded a single back up the middle.
Not that St. Louis necessarily has an inferiority complex, because the Cardinals love their Opening Night pageantry and the Budweiser Clydesdales parading around the stadium.
The occurrence in question happened in the bottom of the ninth inning while the game was tied at 3-3.
During last year's playoffs, the Cubs learned firsthand about the elements of chance and randomness, the value of a few inches here or there.
Grimm's first six Cactus League outings were almost flawless and the only run scored against him came when Oakland's Max Schrock collected an RBI groundout on Wednesday in an exhibition contest.
The total landed right on the closing number of seven runs, making the under 5-1-1 in the last seven.
San Francisco took a 5-4 lead when Joe Panik led off the ninth with a triple and scored on pinch hitter Conor Gillaspie's sacrifice fly. The rotation includes 19-game victor Jon Lester, former Cy Young Award victor Jake Arrieta and ERA king Kyle Hendricks, coming off a breakout year.
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