There's something to be spoken for excitement about prospects, about young players, particularly when it's legitimate.

But there's also something to be spoken for patience.

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Cardinals 11, Pirates 7 last night at PNC. Park.

If I had told you earlier in the day that O'Neill Cruz, Ryan O'Hern, and Connor Griffin would all Homer and the latter his first career home run at P PNC Park, you'd probably have been pretty excited.

If I had told you that the young starting pitchers were going to look like young starting pitchers, and yes, I'm pluralizing that, you might have had a different outlook.

Braxton Ashcraft back from the bereavement leave was hit really in a way that he

hasn't been hit before in the majors, six runs on six hits and three walks over four

and a third.

He did strike out seven.

He also gave up two early home runs, and they were not in doubt off the bat.

I mean, they were blistered.

So he last four and a third.

Hunter Barco, another young starter, and that's still the way that Barco projects,

and it's the way he should project.

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