The beginning and the end of last night’s game were a big problem for the Cardinals. The middle, though, was more impressive than I expected. Let’s be honest. With their recent issues against Mike Leake, who among us figured the game was pretty much over in the third when Marlon Byrd hit that grand slam? [...]
Lots of folks go to Arizona for a nice change of pace. The Cardinals just did it in the summer instead of the winter. To win four games in a row is a tough chore, but to sweep a four game series (which actually runs their winning streak to five) is incredible, especially given the [...]
Ah, that’s more like the team that we’ve seen all year. Strong pitching and just enough offense to get by. Of course, that means it was back to biting the nails for much of this game. After getting out to early significant leads in two of the past three games, this time St. Louis was [...]
In the past three games, the Cardinals have allowed a total of seven runs. That’s not news at all–the pitching staff is the real reason this team now has 80 wins. However, in the past three games the Cardinals have scored 24 runs. That, my friends, isn’t common at all. In the eight games prior [...]
Every year, every team (save those that are already out that way) has to make The West Coast Trip. Usually 10 days or more in a strange time zone playing games when your body says you should be getting ready for bed. It makes for a tough grind most of the time, no matter what [...]
Just enough. Whenever they come around to make a documentary about the 2015 Cardinals season, that’s what it should be titled. Just Enough. We’ve pointed out before their record in one-run games and it only got better on Wednesday night, when Yadier Molina played the Hero and broke a 3-3 tie with his 100th career [...]
It’s amazing that so many people across the internet hate the Cardinals. Given their performance of late, they are the most inoffensive bunch of players you’re likely to come across. St. Louis has had, counting last night, 28 games where they’ve had six hits or less. The fact that they are 14-14 in such games [...]
The Giants in town. Little offense. Strong pitching. A tight game decided late. All you needed were some cooler temperatures and you’d swear we were watching yet another NLCS game between these two clubs. Instead, it was an August game that didn’t have quite the same gravitas, but had significant import nonetheless. There was some [...]
In the last couple of years, I’ve gotten to know Craig and his community of posters over at THE San Francisco Giants Blog. We had such a good time interacting during last year’s NLCS than I wanted to touch base with Craig as the two teams meet again tonight for the first time this season. [...]
Sorry for the long gap in posts, but it was a fairly unusual week around my house and, as such, I didn’t get in front of the computer much. Sadly, I’ve kinda mastered these recap posts this season, so let’s dive in. Wednesday (4-2 win vs. Pittsburgh) Hero: Yadier Molina. It took a mistimed dive, [...]
The Cardinals have won 72 games and lost 40. It’s not true that all of them have been decided by one run, it just feels that way. Actually, only 45 of those games were one-run contests, but the way the pitching staff has gone and the way the offense has sputtered, you’d be forgiven for [...]
The old saying is, of course, you can’t win if you can’t score. That works for both sides of the equation, though. THEY can’t win if THEY can’t score either. Given the Cardinal offense, it’s a good thing this pitching staff is as good as it is. As our regular commenter says, this is one [...]
