ST. LOUIS -- Tuesday nights rainout will sprout a major league debut on Sunday night.In need of a sixth starter after a Wednesday day-night doubleheader forced their hand, the St. Louis Cardinals will call up 24-year-old right-hander Mike Mayers to work the rubber game of their weekend series with the Los Angeles Dodgers in Busch Stadium.A third-round pick in the 2013 first-year player draft out of Ole Miss, the same program that produced St. Louis starter Lance Lynn, Mayers is 8-5 with a 2.62 ERA between Double-A Springfield and Triple-A Memphis.Earning a promotion after going 5-2 with a 2.30 ERA in nine starts at Springfield, Mayers pitched to a 2.94 ERA in nine starts at Memphis, particularly impressive considering how hitter-friendly the Pacific Coast League is.Hes been throwing well, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said of Mayers. Hes had a nice season, and hes gone about it the right way.Mayers first MLB game is a potentially big one for the Cardinals (52-45), which had a five-game winning streak snapped by Los Angeles on Saturday night in a sloppy 7-2 loss. A win would cap the seasons best homestand at 7-3 and give St. Louis momentum going into a 10-game road trip.Meanwhile, the Dodgers (55-44) are looking to polish off a nine-game road trip with a winning mark. Their win Saturday night was a nice bounceback after a bitter 16-inning loss in Friday nights series opener that saw them use nine pitchers.That game was exactly what we needed after last night, Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said. It was as scripted as we could have possibly hoped.Kenta Maedas 5 2/3-inning start wasnt as long as he wanted, but relievers Luis Avilan and Ross Stripling combined to work the last 10 outs with little opposition, enabling a tired bullpen to gain a bit of a breather.Left-hander Scott Kazmir (8-3, 4.30 ERA) hopes to pick up his second win of the year over the Cardinals. On May 14, Kazmir came within an out of a complete game, settling for a 5-3 decision at Dodger Stadium.Kazmir is coming off an excellent performance Tuesday night in an 8-4 win at Washington, where he cruised through seven innings. Kazmir gave up just four hits and a run, walked none and fanned eight in an efficient 88-pitch outing.If the past week is any indication, Kazmir might have some runs to stuff into his back pocket. 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The day Eddie Jones imposes a curfew on his England team will be the day he believes he has the wrong leadership group at the core of his squad.As the Football Association conducts an investigation to determine exactly what happened on Saturday evening with England football captain Wayne Rooney, Jones backed his squad to self-police their own discipline off the field.Jones dismissed any need for a curfew, saying he expects Englands leadership group of captain Dylan Hartley and vice-captains Billy Vunipola, Owen Farrell and Mike Brown to maintain discipline.But when asked whether he would ever consider imposing a curfew, he answered if that were to happen then he would have the wrong captain and the wrong vice-captains.He added: [The England team] are professional sportsmen who have the privilege of playing for England. They have to do everything to be at their best for England.If they do anything outside of that, then they dont want to play for England.Every player is different; weve got players in this group that have transgressed. If they transgress again, theyll be iin trouble.ddddddddddddWeve got players with perfect records.Everyone makes a mistake so everything is looked at individually, we dont have any set rules or regulations about how we treat them.Central to self-policing squad discipline is captain Hartley. He says he trusts individuals to make the right decisions and said following Saturdays match against Fiji, the players will turn attention to their next Test against Argentina.It is a different policy to the previous regime under Stuart Lancaster, which ex-England captain Will Carling described as prescriptive, a classroom-orientated environment where players were treated as schoolboys.Under Jones, Hartley feels England have just gone the other way.We just trust in the guys to make good decisions, Hartley said. We dont have an A4 sheet with rules written on it.We just trust the guys to do the right thing. Luckily we havent had any issues as of yet. We just treat men like men and you get men. ' ' '
