The pitch to Joey was a bad slider which is more of a "slurve".

So what...he blew a save....go away you DOPE !

What's really bad is that he lost the game for Jamie.

The really bad thing was that it was 0-2. I wonder if Yadi called that pitch or if Motte shook Yadi off.

Nothing wrong with a reliever blowing a save is there. That is what they are supposed to do, right?.. DOPE

It is called having a bad night. It is one of those things that winners have happen to them from time to time. He didn't have his usual stuff and blew it. I can understand why some can't understand that because their usual is fail.

I was shocked at the drop in velocity after that run of 98-99 mph pitches. I think he blew his wad trying to get that strikeout.

I agree, that at-bat with LaHair was one great battle. Good old fashioned hard ball, and it didn't work out-- kinda took the wind out of Motte's sails, but he gave it all he had. Go Cards!

Agree....Motte will be alright, he'll learn from it. I always get a bad feeling when an x-cardinal comes to plate in a game winning situation.

His "offspeed" pitches are awful.

It happens to the best closers(blown saves happen)..... ignorant people like you, should not post here

I think his bad pitches were fastballs too. I think he threw two or three pitchers that weren't fastballs.

Motte seems most effective when he rolls the other team quickly. I'd have liked to seen him pulled after the long AB. That's not a knock against him, just that it's probably not fair to expect him to throw a 30-pitch inning of 98-99 m.p.h. heat.

Ideally I'd have liked to see Garcia stay out. He was cruising, and his pitch count was still low.

That's exactly what I thought happened too.

So ignorant people like you just accept it and think it is alright...............DOPE

as much as i usually think willy is ignorant, he is totally right here

IT IS ONE GAME, give motte a chance before making an overreaction thread, and your saying he has been always putting runners on every outing and never getting a 1-2-3 inning is a lie

prior to last night, he had had 2 1-2-3 innings and never gave up more than 1 baserunner in any outing

Last night was his first bad game, but everybody blows saves, its only his first blown save in 4 tries

izzy was one of the best closers is Cardinals history despite what many believe in him and even he only had a 85% save rate

only the absolute top closers in the league even have a 90% save rate