The wild card was clinched and there was nothing else that could be done for playoff positioning. The streak was over the next night While the Cardinals and others won’t count the last four games of 2021 when they talk about the team has played X number of meaningless games over the past decade or [...]
With the end of the regular season, we start thinking about the things of the fall. Playoff baseball is at the top of the list, of course, but here at the blog, we’ve got our own calendar. For instance, the Playing Pepper series will start getting worked on in January or February for a March [...]
On Friday, September 10, 2021, the Cardinals lost to the Cincinnati Reds 4-2. Yadier Molina homered and Jon Lester went seven innings while only allowing two runs, but T.J. McFarland stumbled in the ninth, allowing two runs, and while the Cards got the tying run to the plate in the ninth, Harrison Bader ended the [...]
On Saturday, September 21, 1935, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3. The Cubs got out to a 4-0 lead behind a home run by Augie Galan, three hits by Billy Herman, and two knocks by Frank Demaree. Roy Henshaw tried for the complete game, but he allowed a run in the eighth when [...]
On Monday, August 27, 1951, in the second game of a doubleheader, the New York Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs in the Polo Grounds. Eddie Stanky and Monte Irvin homered. Whitey Lockman had three hits. Both starters, Al Corwin for the Giants and Bob Rush for the Cubs, went the distance. That was the last [...]
On Tuesday, April 12, 1892, the St. Louis Browns took the field against the Chicago Colts. No boxscore exists of that game but the current Cardinals trace their history back to when those players stepped onto the diamond as part of the National League. From that date until September 10, 2021, the club posted 11,018 [...]
On Thursday, July 18, 1935, the Cardinals defeated the Boston Braves 13-3. Paul Dean, also known as Daffy because the press needed a nickname that reflected his brother’s, went the distance and gave up just five hits and three runs. Burgess Whitehead and Pepper Martin both had four hits and Martin would have been the [...]
On Saturday, April 24, 1982, the Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4. The Phillies got up 3-0, the Cardinals battled back to tie it, both teams swapped runs, then St. Louis put up three in the eighth to win. Joaquin Andujar started. Bruce Sutter got a two inning save (they just called those saves back [...]
On Sunday, August 19, 2001, the Cardinals shut out the Philadelphia Phillies, giving them a 68-55 record. Matt Morris won his sixteenth game by going seven innings and allowing six hits and two walks while striking out four. St. Louis, on the other hand, had 14 hits and while they didn’t homer, they did have [...]
On Saturday, August 18, 2001, the Cardinals beat the Phillies 6-3, raising their record to 67-55. Bud Smith started the game, a couple of weeks before his no-hitter. Steve Kline got the win, however, when Miguel Cairo hit a three-run homer in the seventh to break a 3-3 tie. Dave Veres came in to lock [...]
On September 5, 2004, the Cardinals won in walkoff fashion against the Los Angeles Dodgers. St. Louis actually had a 5-2 lead in the ninth, but Jason Isringhausen put two on, struck two out, then gave up a single and a double that scored Shawn Green, Robin Ventura, and Jayson Werth. The winning run came [...]
I don’t know what we expected with the Padres, the Cardinals’ (at the time) closest competition for the second wild card, coming into Busch. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t that, though. Nobody expected a three game sweep that put St. Louis firmly in the driver’s seat for another postseason appearance. A surprise, to be sure, [...]
