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Cardinals Notes: La Russa requests scoring change
Published 5/13/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Cardinals Notes: La Russa requests scoring change The Cardinals on Friday submitted a formal request to the commissioner’s office requesting an infield single during Thursday’s loss be re-examined as a possible error against Ryan. A change would absolve starting pitcher Kyle Lohse of four earned runs. “I’ve never done that before,” La Russa said of the formal request. “But that’s four earned runs. You can have a tough time overcoming that as a starting pitcher, especially early in the season when you’re trying to get it going.” Or is it that Mozeliak has Lohse on his ...

Tony La Russa : Protector Of Kyle Lohse’s Precious ERA
Published 5/14/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... A number of years ago, Nomar Garciaparra caught major heat for allegedly harassing an official scorer over an error charged to the shortstop. Said incident was one of the first hits to Garciaparra’s rep in Boston prior to his unceremonious departure in 2004, so I can’t help but wonder how things might’ve turned out had he been blessed with the support of a drinking buddy awesome manager like Tony La Genius? From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Joe Strauss : ...