If the Cardinals wanted to put themselves in a better position to win this series, they probably should have won Game 1. Time will certainly tell whether getting shut down by Jack Leiter will look good or bad, but his pedigree suggests it may look better in the future. He certainly looked as good as he pitched, which usually doesn’t happen for bad pitchers. I mean bad pitchers have good starts, certainly, but they don’t usually look as good as Leiter looked on Friday.

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