I’m sure he’s not the only one, but Larry Underwood on Twitter has typically had a Tweet like this one after the Cardinals have a big scoring outing. Nothing to worry about…#STLCards are currently 1-4, averaging 2.8 runs/game, in games following double digit run production. — Larry Underwood (@lau56) July 11, 2018 It’s a really [...]
Home run #: 38 Date: July 11 Opponent: Houston Astros Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Billy Wagner Score: 2-3 Inning: 11 Outs: 1 Runners on: 1 Distance: 485 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 35 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 36 The gap between #37 and #38 was a bit artificial because in there was the annual pause baseball [...]
As fans of the St. Louis Cardinals, we tend to mark the current “Golden Age” from 1996. That was the year new ownership was fully in place and Walt Jocketty recruited his former Oakland employee Tony La Russa to take over the reins of the Cardinals following a fairly unimpressive showing (and a June 1995 [...]
Up and down. Up and down. Whether you use the yo-yo or the roller coaster as your analogy (or something else that tends to go back and forth, maybe one of those Newton’s cradle toys), you could slap a St. Louis Cardinals logo on it and you’d have a great representation of not only this [...]
The Cardinals left St. Louis and wandered out into the desert to take on the Diamondbacks. Unfortunately, they didn’t leave their up-and-down season behind them. A win and a loss in the first two games of the series well mirrors the win a few, lose a few style that the 2018 club has seemingly perfected. [...]
During the 2016 offseason, there was a need, whether accurate or perceived, for a center fielder. Randal Grichuk was fine but not consistent enough. Harrison Bader was at least a couple of years away. Tommy Pham was an injury-plagued prospect that nobody ever was sure would finally make it. This was also the offseason after [...]
When last we spoke, things were looking up. After a disastrous game in Milwaukee, the Cards had lost a heartbreaker, then won four in a row over the Brewers and the Indians and looked a bit like the Cardinals we hoped to see on a regular basis. Surely, surely the clouds were lifting. Surely we [...]
Home run #: 37 Date: June 30 Opponent: Kansas City Royals Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Glendon Rusch Score: 0-4 Inning: 7 Outs: 0 Runners on: 0 Distance: 472 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 33 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 32 While Sammy Sosa‘s mark of 20 home runs captivated the nation and pushed him right into the [...]
Home run #: 36 Date: June 27 Opponent: Minnesota Twins Location: Metrodome Pitcher: Mike Trombley Score: 4-1 Inning: 7 Outs: 2 Runners on: 1 Distance: 431 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 32 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 30 It seems quaint now to think of interleague play as these blocks of time during the schedule when the [...]
Coming into last night, Corey Kluber, the defending Cy Young award winner in the American League, was looking for his third such trophy. He had a 2.10 ERA, he had all of 12 walks on the season, he had a .544 OPS against, and was striking out a batter an inning. Going up against him [...]
Oftentimes in a season, we say, “It can’t get any worse, they have no place to go but up now.” And so often, we’re wrong. Things might get better for a little bit and then they just revert to form. Or they wind up going out and actually losing more games. It’s not often that [...]
Home run #: 35 Date: June 25 Opponent: Cleveland Indians Location: Jacobs Field Pitcher: Dave Burba Score: 0-0 Inning: 1 Outs: 1 Runners on: 0 Distance: 461 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 31 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 30 Getting back to some old American League stomping grounds seemed to invigorate Mark McGwire. He had two against [...]
