The Cardinals look for the four game sweep of the Nationals, who today are a below .500 team. Luke Weaver will face off against TanNer rOark. I'll be reporting live from the game, which I've never done, so we'll see how it goes his toes. First Inning Things started off well for Weaver as he…
Enos Slaughter did it. So did Stan Musial. So did Terry Pendleton and Ray Lankford and Brian Jordan. Throwing Stan Musial into any statistical grouping of St. Louis Cardinals players is going to skew the sample considerably, but there is an obvious logic to believing that a player who begins his Major League career with…
When the St. Louis Cardinals fired Mike Matheny on July 14, they were 47-46, 7.5 games out of first place in the NL Central and 4.5 games out of the wild card. The team looked lost, lackluster, and headed for another October out of the playoffs. Fast forward to tonight's 4-2 win over the Washington…
On Sunday afternoon, in the waning moments of the St. Louis Cardinals' 8-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals to complete a sweep of their intrastate rivals, Cardinals reliever Tyler Webb hit Royals right fielder Jorge Bonifacio with a pitch on a 1-2 count with two outs, both of which came via Webb strikeouts. It…
The Cardinals are absolutely ROLLING right now. They are hitting on all cylinders. After a walk-off victory last night, John Gant takes the mound for the Birds against Gio Gonzalex and the Washington Nationals. If they can pull out a victory tonight, it will be there seventh in a row. Let's keep things rolling. Lineups…
When the St. Louis Cardinals promoted Paul DeJong to the big league squad last May, I didn't think too terribly much of it. Unless you're a relative of Paul DeJong's, you probably didn't either. It was a fine, defensible move given the circumstances of the team, but it wasn't exactly Kris Bryant or Ronald Acuna…
The Cardinals pop the cork on a 4-game home series with fellow wild card contenders, the Washington Nationals, tonight. Our surprise virtuoso/stalwart rotation head Miles Mikolas takes on Nats, uh... Guy, Tommy Milone. Milone, 31, has been uninspiring throughout an 8-year career in the majors, putting up -0.4 bWAR in 754 innings, working almost exclusively…
On this day four weeks ago, the St. Louis Cardinals entered the All-Star break with a sense of renewed hope with newly-crowned (interim) manager Mike Shildt at the helm even if the season already felt sort of hopeless. The team was 48-46, and to conceivably slip in to the Wild Card Game by reaching the…
The Kansas City Royals, who are very bad, lost the first two games of this weekend's latest installment of the I-70 series pretty handily to the St. Louis Cardinals, who...might be good? They certainly aren't as bad. And with the team's fifth consecutive series victory already in hand, the Cardinals took to the field with a…
The Game The Cardinals played the second of a three-game set against the Kansas City Royals Saturday night. Coming off a 7-0 victory on Friday, the boys in red were looking to deal another loss to their cross-state rival. Indeed, if this team has any hope of making the post-season, they absolutely have to pummel…
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