A real-time look at the emotional roller coaster of a no-hit bid.
6/1/18: Cardinals prove that four-run comebacks aren’t automatic against the Pirates
Tonight, at Busch Stadium, the St. Louis Cardinals, led by Miles Mikolas, faced the Pittsburgh Pirates, led by Not Miles Mikolas. Would the Cardinals follow last night's thriller by following The Best Pitcher In Baseball to victory, or would the Pirates get lucky? Anyway, I'm tired so this game better not go to extra innings.…
Cardinals players as defined by a song from their adolescence
A look at how the song that was #1 when you turned 14 actually can define your life.
5/31–Cardinals play baseball game to end May against the Pirates
Tonight, the St. Louis Cardinals played their 54th game of the 2018 season. This game is the exact one-third mark of the season, and thus it is a pretty logical time to calculate the team's pace for the season. If the Cardinals won tonight, they'd stand at 90 wins. If they lost, they'd stand at…
Wait, again? Another Cardinals/Pirates preview
For the next four days, starting tonight, the Cardinals will play the Pittsburgh Pirates. This site has been around a little over a month and this is the third Cardinals/Pirates series preview I've written. I'm getting so sick of these teams playing each other, man. Look, I like baseball: I promise. I even, in and…
Facebook and the future of baseball broadcasts
On Wednesday afternoon, Cardinals super-prospect Alex Reyes made his 2018 Major League debut in Milwaukee, delighting and then terrifying fans with his two-strikeouts-and-a-pickoff first inning and later being pulled from the game after just four innings. It was, for a regular season weekday game in May, extremely anticipated among Cardinals fans, but it was an…
All hail our overlords Matt Carpenter and Harrison Bader–a 5/29 recap
Yesterday's game was a drag. This game feels inevitable to be better. Let's check out the Cardinals lineup. https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1001578953453252614 As a noted Jose Martinez At First Base Yeller (as well as a Jose Martinez In The Batter's Box Appreciator), I'm doubly disappointed that the Cardinals have made the rational move and moved Matt Carpenter to…
A tale of two Carpenters
By any reasonable measure, Matt Carpenter's 2018 to this point has been a disappointment. After an abysmal start to the season offensively, Carpenter has rebounded significantly, but he has still been only roughly average at the plate. While Carpenter has logged material innings at first, second, and third base, he is generally not well-regarded defensively--his…
The Cardinals are going to play the Brewers in several baseball games in the near future
Today, the Cardinals begin a three-game set against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park, one of four current MLB stadiums I've been to (I'm like one of those people with a checklist of stadiums to visit, but without the ambition to actually make an earnest attempt at all thirty). I saw Bo Hart make his…
The Cardinals and the Pirates played a baseball game and here is what happened in it
First things first: This might be the last STL Bullpen post for a few days. We might do recaps, we might not! We don't have any planned non-recap posts until Monday. If something major happens, we'll probably write something. But it's a three-day weekend for us, too, sooooooo... Here were Friday's lineups: https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1000119358780211200 https://twitter.com/Pirates/status/1000134153487216641 Whoa,…
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