Five games to recap, so let’s forget the attempt at witty banter and get right to it, shall we? Wednesday (7-4 win vs. Milwaukee) Hero: Matt Carpenter. Two for four with a couple of RBI and a run scored. Goat: Randal Grichuk. 0-4 with two strikeouts and a double play. Notes: There’s a baseball saying [...]
Just like Monday night, the score was 1-0. Just like Monday night, the losing team had more opportunities to score than the winning team. Just like Monday night, it came down to Kolten Wong in the ninth. Only difference? The team that won. While the Cardinal offense might be missing in action right now, at [...]
A last place team coming to town, a team that’s struggled to win? A pitcher that has trouble going more than five innings? Against the best team in baseball, a team that’d won six of seven? We should know what that means. Baseball may be a funny game, but it’s also a bit unpredictable. The [...]
With the United Cardinal Bloggers picking Saturday to do their annual Progressive Game Blog, we’ve already discussed the down portion of the weekend. Which just leaves us with two fun games to talk about! Friday (3-0 win) Hero: John Lackey. Yes, the Dodgers have trouble on the road (this was their fourth straight shutout away [...]
Given the vagaries of both the MLB schedule (a ridiculously-long rain delay making for a late night before an afternoon series wrap) and my own personal activities, I’m writing the recap of Saturday’s game after Sunday’s is already well in the books. Such is the life of the Progressive Game Blog, as it cares not [...]
Welcome to St. Louis, Jason Heyward. Heyward has had a few moments before (though not a lot), but none bigger than a game-tying home run in the bottom of the ninth. It’s like he took a moment during the game to read Mr. Buffa’s latest and thought, hey, I can do that. He may have [...]
It wasn’t the kind of win we’ve come to expect out of these Cardinals last night, but they all count the same in the standings. Standings that the Cards are consistently at the top of. We’ve come to expect a pitching-and-defense type of win, with enough offense to get by. Instead, St. Louis got serious while [...]
They take licks but keep on ticking. They drop games, but then come back and win more. Injuries are just one more obstacle to overcome. So far in 2015, there’s nothing the St. Louis Cardinals can’t handle. This club hasn’t lost more than three games in a row all year long. After this last losing [...]
Through a combination of not wanting to get up early during the beginning of the week and a stomach bug at the end of it, we’ve got five games to review this morning on this rare Saturday post. Now, if you told me at the beginning of the stretch that the Cards would score 20 [...]
Given that currently the Detroit Tigers are one of the best teams in the American League, at least via record, probably losing two of three to them, including one in extra innings, isn’t so bad. The Cardinals are finding stronger measuring sticks than the Reds and Brewers and they aren’t being found completely wanting, which would [...]
For the longest time on Thursday afternoon, it looked like the Cards were stuck in a slightly tilted version of Wednesday night’s game. Trevor Bauer wasn’t carrying a no-hitter or gunning for a strikeout record, but when the top of the eighth rolled around, he was carrying a 1-0 lead with double-digit strikeouts. It was [...]
For a while yesterday, I was a little disappointed in myself that I didn’t write up Tuesday’s game yesterday morning. There wasn’t any particular reason, just had a little trouble getting motivated to get out of bed and write about a game I didn’t see much of. After watching last night’s game, though, I’m glad [...]
