If you are going to have to deal with two hit-by-pitch in the same inning, it’s good to make it count. After Sam Dyson plunked Carlos Martinez while he was trying to bunt and Randal Grichuk a batter later to load the bases, there were a lot of Cardinal fans wondering if St. Louis would [...]
I have, from time to time, taken on the task of cataloging and describing the various blogs around the Internet that focus on the St. Louis Cardinals. I most recently did that last January and it already needs a severe reworking, which is pretty much the nature of blogging. They come and go, though lately [...]
Four games to talk about and they are all over the map, pretty much. The only thing we didn’t have in these four games? One of those close, low-scoring wins. You know, the kind the Cardinals have had all year long. Thursday (2-1 loss at Minnesota) Hero: Matt Carpenter. Two of the five hits. After [...]
If the club is going to hack a database, I’d have guessed it was John Mabry looking for some hitting tips to pass on to this offense. It definitely needs something. Tuesday (3-2 win vs. Twins) Hero: Mark Reynolds. He only had one hit, but he made it count, driving in two runs that proved [...]
Of course, today’s story would break at a time where I really couldn’t get into discussing it. And while we’ve had a chance to look at the humorous side of things (apparently a lot of folks needed that–that one post beats most all the weeks we’ve had over here when it comes to hits!), it [...]
You’ve probably heard by now about the allegations that employees of the Cardinals have been implicated in the hacking attack of the Houston Astros system. We’ll talk more about this story in a more serious nature either later today or, more likely, in tomorrow’s post. It sounds like it’s a couple of employees that tried [...]
It had been a long time, almost a year in fact, but an old friend returned to Busch Stadium last night. The Yadi-bomb.* *(I had planned to open the post with the highlight clip, but MLB doesn’t let you embed such things the day after. Far be it for you to find the video anywhere [...]
What a difference a few miles makes. Two weeks ago, the Cardinals struggled in Kansas City, needing to win Sunday’s finale to salvage anything in the series. This weekend, Sunday’s game could have given them a three-game sweep had the rains cooperated. It was a sweep nonetheless and, given Kansas City’s position not only in [...]
As I get older, something that surprisingly seems to happen daily, it’s becoming harder and harder to drag my lazy rear out of bed and get these posts done before work. Of course, after the first two games this week, who wanted to write about them? I’ll work on doing better so these aren’t series [...]
Before I kick off yet another venue for my opinions, I thought it wise to get back to one of my original ones. Josey Curtis of The Redbird Retreat was kind enough to join me this weekend and talk about her background as well as the 2015 Cardinals. Give it a listen below or head [...]
The Cards have placed Matt Holliday on the 15-day DL and brought back up Miguel Socolovich, most likely due to the heavy bullpen use from last night. We’ll see if later in the week a bat is brought up.
I’m not sure what brought it to my attention. Maybe with the late start of the West Coast games I was following Twitter more than I usually do during a game. Maybe it was the fact that the game was another outing where the offense wasn’t doing much and some frustration was directed elsewhere. Perhaps [...]
