After an hour and half rain delay, the Cardinals and Indians get things going. Carlos Martinez vs. Corey Kluber in what should be a battle of two of baseball best pitchers. The last time Kluber faced the Cardinals he struck 18 Redbirds tying a Cleveland Indians record. It's game time from Busch! Lineups https://twitter.com/Indians/status/1011718879217901568 https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1011709455950630917…
6.25.18 Recap: Cards steal game 1 behind Gant gem, active bats
The Cardinals played the Indians last night. The Indians were in the midst of a 7-game winning streak. (Never mind that those wins were against the 31-37 Twins (1), the 24-47 White Sox (3), and the 36-39 Tigers (3)). John Gant, owner of a 3.48 ERA and a 2.93 FIP (that latter figure is 27%…
6.24.18 Recap: Cards crush Milwaukee, split series
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…
6/22/18: 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…
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…
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.
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…
The Good, the Ugly, and the Maybe Good Again: The Cardinals are playing the Phillies this week
The Cardinals travel to Philadelphia to take on the Phillies for their next three-game set. After going 2-4 in a pair of disappointing series against the lowly Padres and some other ball team, the Cardinals find themselves 4 games behind the division leader Brewers and half a game back of the Cubs. Probable matchups probably…
6/16: Troubling Trends – Errors and base running doom Cards in 6-3 loss
I love attending night games during the summer, especially on the weekends when you don't care how late it goes. Growing up in St. Louis, you learn to embrace the humidity. As the sweat trickles down my forehead, I feel like I'm a part of the live action. To me, summertime and baseball go together…
Weather hot. Cubs hot. Cards not. – a 6/15 recap
The Cardinals and Cubs take the field for a weekend series at Busch tonight. It’s the 2,405 meeting between the friendly/hated rivals as the Cubbies look to get revenge on the Redbirds after a three-game sweep by St. Louis at the beginning of May. In that series the Cardinals walked off twice, including a rain-delay,…
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