Waino confident he has turned corner in 2016

MILWAUKEE — The course-changing moment, as Adam Wainwright later described it, came on Sunday, when, as he cued clips of his former self, the struggling ace found his fix.

With a repurposed delivery and a newfound zip on his pitches, Wainwright rediscovered himself at Miller Park on Tuesday night. And though the right-hander is winless since July 16, the Cardinals’ 2-1 win that he set up with seven spectacular innings gave new life to the once-ailing ace.

How fitting it would be that on the day he turned 35, Wainwright went retro to assert that age won’t hold him back.

“Tonight going into the game, I tried to forget everything that’s gone on this year,” said Wainwright, who had allowed 25 runs in his previous five August outings. “So to appease the Twitter followers out there who wanted me to retire, tonight I retired the other guy. I’m 35 now. I’ve turned over a new leaf.”

To figure out how to move forward, Wainwright looked back, specifically to what he did so successfully while winning 39 games in 2013-14. He watched his best starts from those seasons — and not a single one from this season — and zeroed in on his delivery. What he saw …

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