The Cardinals have not won two consecutive games since June 9, against the woebegone Reds. (That was the tail end of a three-game winning streak.) That's more than two weeks since our last 2-game winning streak. If it feels like we've been bad, I feel you. We're 5.5 games behind our opponents today, and 2.5…
6/23/2018: Yadi’s Two Bombs give Cards a 3-2 win
I'm not sure this game will top the finish I just saw at the World Cup. Playing with 10 men, Germany scored on a set piece in the 95th minute to beat Sweden 2-1. It's nice to have soccer to take my mind off the slumping Cards lately. This afternoon, it's Chase Anderson vs. Miles Mikolas. His…
6/22/18: Jack Flaherty is brilliant, Cardinals still lose
Thursday night's game was the pits. You can handle, almost laugh at, the team looking completely inept for an evening but it's much harder when it happens during a stretch in which the team is already playing bad ball. Enter Friday, where the Cardinals attempted to regain their dignity. Starters were Jack Flaherty and Junior…
Mike Trout is so good that it is making my head hurt
In the first round of the 2009 MLB Draft, the St. Louis Cardinals selected Texas high school pitcher Shelby Miller with the 19th overall pick. By most standards, Miller was a very good pick--he's already the seventh-best #19 pick in history (if this sounds like a familiar topic, it is) and he has a very…
6/21/18 Recap: Cardinals Fall Apart in Horrific Blowout to Brewers.
The Cardinals begin a four game series against the Brewers in Milwaukee to continue the road trip. Carlos Martinez (3-3) will head out to the mound to try and get his season back on track after several not-so-great outings in his post-lat strain career. Lefty Brent Suter (7-4) pitches for the Brewers. He's coming off…
The Cardinals are going to play the Brewers for four games–a series preview
If the St. Louis Cardinals do not win the National League Central this year, I hope the Milwaukee Brewers do. Perhaps this is not a particularly shocking assessment, as the chief contender outside of these two teams is the primary rival of them, the Chicago Cubs. But even so, the Brewers are a perfectly likable…
6/20/18 Recap: Cardinal hitters not named Yadier Molina go dormant, Wacha injured in 4-3 loss
Yadier Molina hits two home runs, but can't prevent the Cardinals from losing their fourth series in the last five. Oh, and Michael Wacha strained his oblique. Truly a banner day for the Cardinals.
How Mike Matheny’s bullpen management in a win led to a loss
The primary metrics by which coaches and managers in professional sports are measured are wins and losses. Wins and losses exist for players, particularly for baseball starting pitchers, but there are more descriptive statistics which are in the mainstream (earned-run average, to use the most famous example). For coaches, one's record is what we have,…
The sky stops falling, Cardinals pull out impressive win in Philly- a 6/19 recap
After Monday night's brutal loss, the Cardinals and Phillies were back in action from Citizen's Bank Park for the second game of a two game series. Luke Weaver took on Vince Valesquez. Here was the rest of the line up: https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1009186597840084992 https://twitter.com/Phillies/status/1009153491292573696 Here's how the game went down: Phillies get two on, no out earlier…
Harrison Bader has changed the outfield conversation
Everyone knows how it goes: An everyday outfielder gets hurt or otherwise fails to perform. The Cardinals then plug someone into that gap, and everyone realizes that the backup is good. Then the fans beat their fists on the table, demanding that this off-the-bench outfielder produced by Cardinals Devil Magic should be out there every…
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