It’s possible that Tommy Pham wants to prove a point. After homering on Sunday against the Reds, Pham wasn’t in the lineup on Tuesday night. Back in there on Wednesday, he showed Mike Matheny what he’s missing when he keeps Pham on the bench, hitting two two-run homers and tossing in a triple to lead [...]
Remember when Jason Heyward started slow this season? When he hit .217 in April with five double plays to just two home runs and a section of the fanbase was ready to write the trade of Shelby Miller off as a loss? You kinda have to peer through the mists of time to remember that, [...]
The last three series for the St. Louis Cardinals have been anything but pleasant for the fanbase clad in red. All three of them saw the Cards just manage one win. In the last two, that win came in the final game of the series, somewhat erasing the bad taste of the days before and [...]
Stephen Piscotty didn’t just swing the bat yesterday afternoon. He also swung the entire outlook of Cardinal Nation, an outlook that was as dark and nasty as a summer thunderstorm. Revisit and cleanse yourself of an ugly week, won’t you? Your browser does not support iframes. Before we get to yesterday’s game, though, we have [...]
Anytime I can sit down and talk with Bill Ivie of I70 Baseball it’s a good time. Bill and I haven’t seen each other in a while nor have we been able to be on radio together, so this podcast was a great time of reconnecting. Hope you will give it a listen.
Labor Day is a day to honor the labor movement, not to labor yourself. Yet that’s what watching yesterday’s game was like. It felt like the Cardinals had taken the day off while the fans had to work to watch. Not a pleasant experience, especially coming after losing two of three from Pittsburgh. In fact, [...]
Thanks to some great work by the Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh came into St. Louis 6.5 games back before this past weekend’s series. Which meant that, even though the Pirates won their first road NL Central series of the year (yes, you read that right), they still didn’t get dangerously close to the Cardinals. It wasn’t [...]
Everyone knows that the third in a series tends to be a bit off. Return of the Jedi wasn’t as strong as The Empire Strikes Back. No one even mentions Major League: Back To The Minors. Pulling off three straight dramatic and entertaining anythings is a tough act to manage. The Cardinals did their best [...]
In some ways, this season for the St. Louis Cardinals has been like a season of a television show. You’ve got your main storyline (dominant pitching) and your overarching issue or adversary (inconsistent offense). You work all season to get to where you can take on that adversary, then the last few episodes are just [...]
All year long, the St. Louis Cardinals have been honoring their 1985 National League Championship team. The latest? Reaching 85 wins before September. For a little perspective, 85 wins ties this team for 52nd overall in season wins by a Cardinal team. They’ve already won more games than the 2006 Cardinals, who won just 83 [...]
Does anyone remember those two brutal games in San Diego? That was the start of this 10-game road trip and we were sure the sky was falling. Apparently, the sky was closer than normal, but that’s just because the Cardinals were sailing into it. A win to salvage something in Petco. Four straight wins in [...]
As the leader of the United Cardinal Bloggers, it’s typically on my plate to pick the projects that we are going to do each month. Many of our projects are pretty standard, but there are a few months that give us the freedom to do something different. August is one of those months and, when [...]
