Home run #: 34 Date: June 24 Opponent: Cleveland Indians Location: Jacobs Field Pitcher: Jaret Wright Score: 0-7 Inning: 4 Outs: 1 Runners on: 0 Distance: 449 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 31 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 30 After back-to-back days with a home run a week ago, Mark McGwire went quiet with the bat as [...]
Last night, the 2018 Cardinals looked like they could take their place along one of the most legendary teams in baseball history. Not the 1927 Yankees. Not the 1975 Reds. Not the 2001 Mariners. No, last night the Cardinals looked like they were a match for the 1962 New York Mets. We’ve seen bad games [...]
After three games, it feels like the Cardinals and Phillies are teams that are very much alike. We saw three one-run games, all of which had lead changes and neither team getting up more than a couple and not for long. We had an extra-inning game, a game that was blown in the eighth and [...]
There was a lot of trepidation on the off day last Thursday. The Cardinals had just finished up playing three last place teams in the National League and wound up going 4-5 against them. The next six series were against teams over the .500 mark and some significantly over. Would the Cardinals be able to [...]
Home run #: 33 Date: June 18 Opponent: Houston Astros Location: Astrodome Pitcher: Shane Reynolds Score: 6-4 Inning: 5 Outs: 0 Runners on: 0 Distance: 449 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 25 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 27 Home runs can come in spurts. After a few days without a long ball, Mark McGwire went deep in [...]
Home run #: 32 Date: June 17 Opponent: Houston Astros Location: Astrodome Pitcher: Jose Lima Score: 0-1 Inning: 3 Outs: 2 Runners on: 0 Distance: 437 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 25 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 26 For the fact that early in the year it look like just a coronation waiting to happen with Mark [...]
On a scale from Attack of the Clones to The Empire Strikes Back, last night’s Cardinals/Padres game was much more The Phantom Menace than A New Hope. I’d say it was like The Force Awakens, a bit of a repeat and hitting the same beats as what has gone before, but I liked TFA. (Of [...]
In the intro to the always excellent Bird Law podcast, the hosts (Rusty Groppel and Adam Butler of The Redbird Daily) overlay some music with various quotes from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. One of them goes as follows: We’re both men of the law. You know. We get after it. You know, we jabber [...]
Home run #: 31 Date: June 12 Opponent: Arizona Diamondbacks Location: Bank One Ballpark Pitcher: Andy Benes Score: 1-0 Inning: 3 Outs: 1 Runners on: 3 Distance: 438 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 20 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 26 It was probably a bit weird for Andy Benes to be looking across the field at the [...]
It was pretty unlikely that the Cardinals were going to go 19-0 against the Cincinnati Reds this season. The problem is less the loss and the snapping that streak than how that loss came to be. Because with a little more control, that streak could be still running. However, there were two wins before that [...]
Home run #: 30 Date: June 10 Opponent: Chicago White Sox Location: Comiskey Park II Pitcher: Jim Parque Score: 1-0 Inning: 3 Outs: 1 Runners on: 2 Distance: 409 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 20 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 25 Thirty home runs is a heck of a season. Jedd Gyorko was the last Cardinal to hit [...]
Home run #: 29 Date: June 8 Opponent: Chicago White Sox Location: Comiskey Park II Pitcher: Jason Bere Score: 0-3 Inning: 4 Outs: 0 Runners on: 1 Distance: 356 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 20 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 24 Interleague play was still fairly new in 1998. Young whippersnappers who have come to the game [...]
