Over the last 20 years, the Cardinals have been a very good baseball team while the Pittsburgh Pirates generally have not. This once well-known sports fact has sort of faded from consciousness because the Pirates strung together several very good seasons and a few trips to the postseason, but they finished below .500 for 20…
In 2015, when Bud Norris played for the San Diego Padres, comments made by the veteran pitcher to USA Today's Jorge L. Ortiz raised many eyebrows and have followed Norris for the next three years, and will likely continue to follow him beyond that. In an article exploring that the majority of baseball brawls involve…
The Cardinals enter today's game having won All The Games lately. Except last night, you know. But there's at least one school of thought that last night was just one big collective hallucination, and hey, I'm on board for it. The pitching matchup today is less than inspiring, featuring the Rox' peripheral-outperforming Tyler Anderson versus…
Tonight we have more altitude, players weekend jerseys and nicknames. Facing former teammates is always fun. Let's play ball at Coors Field. Recap and game summary In the second inning, Kolten Wong came up limping after running out a ground ball. He was removed from the game with a left hamstring strain, the team announced. Greg…
This is, technically, a series preview of the upcoming three game set at Coors Field between the St. Louis Cardinals and Colorado Rockies. The Cardinals, as most of you are well aware, have been red-hot under interim manager Mike Shildt and currently hold the National League's top Wild Card spot. The Rockies are just 1/2…
No matter which way you look at it, Kolten Wong has been the best defensive second baseman in the National League this year.
Sweeps are hard to come by in Major League Baseball. Sweeps are even harder to come by in the heat of August against teams jockeying for playoff position. But that's exactly what the St. Louis Cardinals did tonight with a thrilling 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Tonight, fans were treated to a showcase…
After Matt Adams put up a lackluster 2016 season, one in which he was barely above league average at the plate (an unacceptably low level of offensive production for somebody with as little defensive value as he does), the St. Louis Cardinals of 2017 were ready to move on to alternative solutions at first base.…
This team is rolling right now. Last night's game, that played into this morning, was one of the best wins of the season. Daniel Poncedeleon is on the mound tonight against Hyun-Jin Ryu. The Cardinals can keep up in the ever expanding NL Wild Card race with a win tonight. It's game time. Let's go.…
Despite the fact that I own and operate a website about Major League Baseball, I actually don't watch MLB Network all that much. I don't have a great answer as to why--maybe I'm mentally programmed to gravitate towards ESPN to such a degree that even though I've stopped watching ESPN for the most part unless…
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