Home run #: 45 Date: July 28 Opponent: Milwaukee Brewers Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Mike Myers Score: 9-8 Inning: 8 Outs: 1 Runners on: 0 Distance: 408 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 41 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 39 As we saw a couple of days ago, Mark McGwire had taken some time in between home runs. The [...]
Home run #: 44 Date: July 26 Opponent: Colorado Rockies Location: Coors Field Pitcher: John Thomson Score: 0-0 Inning: 4 Outs: 2 Runners on: 0 Distance: 452 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 38 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 39 Whether it was the pressure or just the natural ebb-and-flow of a season, Mark McGwire had a few homerless [...]
We could talk about yesterday’s game between the Cardinals and the Reds, and we probably will in a bit, but it was another dreary loss in a year that has seen a lot of dreary losses. (After winning the first nine against the Reds, St. Louis is now 2-5 in its last seven against Cincinnati.) [...]
A rookie for the St. Louis Cardinals allowing no hits to the Cincinnati Reds as he starts the seventh inning, clinging to a small lead since his offensive teammates weren’t able to pile on. Haven’t we seen this movie before? While Austin Gomber‘s start last night had some strong similarities to Daniel Poncedeleon‘s from the [...]
The Daniel Poncedeleon story is outstanding. We all know it by now, how he worked his way into being a prospect, only to be felled by a line drive to the head that required brain surgery. He rehabbed and returned to the mound not cowed in the slightest, doing well enough to be added to [...]
The Cardinals went into Wrigley as a bit of an unknown quantity. Mike Shildt had taken over for Mike Matheny and had won his first game with some different tactics but then the All-Star Break had intervened. The five game set in the “Friendly Confines” is also a small sample, but much more data than [...]
Home run #: 43 Date: July 20 Opponent: San Diego Padres Location: Qualcomm Stadium Pitcher: Brian Boehringer Score: 4-1 Inning: 5 Outs: 0 Runners on: 1 Distance: 485 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 36 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 38 It’d been a while since the Cardinals had run into the Padres. You may remember that Mark [...]
Opponent: Los Angeles Dodgers Location: Busch Stadium End of day Sammy Sosa total: 36 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 38 After reaching the 40-homer level, Mark McGwire was pretty quiet for a couple of games. He basically sat out one, only showing up as a pinch-hitter, but had two extra-inning games around that. Through that, he [...]
Bear with me a moment as I tell a bit of a personal anecdote that’s related to this weekend’s activity by the St. Louis Cardinals. I attend a United Methodist church and have my entire life. For those of you that may not be aware, pastors in the Methodist tradition are not hired by the [...]
I can’t remember ever getting up before church on a Sunday to write a post. I’ve scheduled some for Sunday. I’ve written some Sunday afternoon. But it’s rare when the Cardinals do something on Saturday that requires a discussion that can’t wait until Monday. The first in-season managerial change in 23 years qualifies, however. I [...]
Another week, another peek behind the curtain at the men that make up the St. Louis Cardinals. And again, it’s not necessarily a look that we wanted to see. As the Dexter Fowler fire starts to burn itself out (Derrick Goold discussed this in his chat this week and there are some interesting thoughts there [...]
Opponent: Houston Astros Location: Busch Stadium End of day Sammy Sosa total: 35 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 36 As we’ve noted, if you want to make a run at a home run record, you are probably going to need to hit some homers in bunches. After finishing off the Astros the day before with [...]
