Cards have yanked Isringhausen from the closers role and will split closing duties between Russ Springer and Ryan Franklin.
SI Link Hope its Franklin personally... watching Izzy implode is a favorite past time of sorts, and I'm sure I could embrace watching Franklin take over the role of 'imploder' (can't really root for
Springer to implode though, Card or not).
"It needed to be done," [Isringhausen] said. "It's a mental break more than anything."
Isringhausen, who leads the NL with 11 saves and is eight saves shy of 300 for his career, was clearly upset after Friday's game, putting all the blame on himself.
"I'm just getting sick of embarrassing myself and letting my team down," he said Friday night. "We should be five more wins in the win column in my mind, so we should be ahead in first place even more. But they can't keep sending me out there when I'm pitching the way I'm pitching.
ETA quote.
Second edit per 'slapdown' from Noe.