The Cardinals have a cool, old school-style scorecard

By Apr 13, 2015, 9:44 AM EDT
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I am a sucker for old baseball programs. I once wrote a long, rather high-minded thing inspired by them which sort of explains that fascination (and I think it actually holds up). But most programs these days are boring. Posed shots of the three best players, maybe. A logo and some TV sports production-level graphics. I realize that programs are really revenue generators and advertising delivery devices, so if  the artistry of the past seems mostly gone with these things, it’s because form is following function. But I do sort of miss that old artistry.

Which makes me so happy to see the Cardinals’ latest scorecard. It’s quite the throwback to those old ones, and it gets bonus points for taunting:

The “learn to score the Cardinal Way” in the upper righthand corner made me roll my eyes, but it’s more than made up for by that absolutely hilarious empty-handed Pirate. And I’m screen-capping the miserable Cub for future reference.

This is all kinds of fun.

Yankees place Nestor Cortes on 15-day injured list with left rotator cuff strain

Associated PressJun 8, 2023, 4:48 PM EDT
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The Yankees placed Nestor Cortes on the 15-day injured list with a left rotator cuff strain that will sideline the left-hander for at least two starts.

The move is retroactive to Monday and Cortes will be shut down for at least 15 days.

After Tuesday’s game, Cortes said the shoulder has been bothering him between starts and more so after he pitched five innings May 30 in Seattle.

“I took two days off and when I got to LA and threw that first day, I didn’t feel right,” Cortes said Tuesday. “But it was first day coming back from pitching so I knew it was going to be nagging a little bit. So I waited a little bit.

“That second day in LA was when I said something because it felt like I had pitched yesterday. So I wasn’t recovering in time.”

Cortes is 5-2 with a 5.16 ERA in 11 starts and has particularly struggled later in outings. Opponents are hitting .447 when facing him for the third time in a game.

Last year, Cortes was an All-Star and went 12-4 with a 2.44 ERA in 28 starts.

Randy Vásquez was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre to take Cortes’ spot in the rotation and will make his second career start in Thursday’s doubleheader. Vásquez made his major league debut May 26 against San Diego when the Yankees needed a starter because Domingo Germán was serving a 10-game suspension for using sticky substances.