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Adam Wainwright on Cardinals' skid - 'More urgency wouldn't hurt' - ESPN

The St. Louis Cardinals aren't panicking over having the worst record in the National League, but Adam Wainwright offered a suggestion amid St. Louis' latest swoon.

«More urgency wouldn't hurt,» the veteran pitcher told reporters, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, after the Cardinals were swept over the weekend by the Pirates.

The Cardinals (25-35) enter Monday 7½ games behind the first-place Brewers (32-27) in the NL Central and have lost five of their past six contests, scoring just 14 runs over that stretch.

Wainwright, in his 19th season with the club, was asked if the underachieving Cardinals are concerned about being in last place 60 games into the season.

«I don't think 'concerned' is the right word,» he said, according to the Post-Dispatch. «I think 'pissed' is the right word. I think everyone is pissed at a lot of different things. We come in here and we look around and we're like, 'What the heck?' Some things can't be explained. You've just got to go and perform.»

The Cardinals appeared headed in the right direction two weeks ago, when they reeled off 11 wins in 14 games after a 10-24 start. But they have gone 4-8 over a rough 12-game stretch punctuated by their weekend sweep in Pittsburgh, where they combined to leave 27 men on base over the three games.

«It's the same thing all year — this series,» Wainwright said. «We've been one big moment away from winning all of these games.»

Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol that it was «tough to string anything together offensively» against the Pirates but balked at the idea that his team had regressed to their April form.

«Not even [expletive] close,» he told reporters. «No, not close. It doesn't feel that way at all. In April, we handed over a lot of games in a

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