Since we last spoke, the Cardinals have split a couple of games with the Marlins. We’ll get to those in a bit–you know we never leave a game unexamined around this site–but let’s take a look at the bigger picture with the Cardinals. It feels like there’s a lot of re-examination going on and as [...]
We’ve spent much of the year revisiting Mark McGwire‘s run at Roger Maris‘s home run record. Besides his muscular body, one of McGwire’s most notable characteristics was his shock of red hair. We might call McGwire Big Red or something of that nature, but there’s someone else that is always going to own the title [...]
Per GM Michael Girsch, Alex Reyes had surgery today to repair his lat and will miss the remainder of the season. Which is a major bummer but not a huge surprise.
A walk-off win, followed by a no-hitter. An off day, where they draft a top talent that usually isn’t available to them. Yadier Molina returns. Carlos Martinez returns. Miami coming to town. There was all sorts of momentum and positiveness and all-around good feelings going on around the Cardinals before last night’s game. Unfortunately, we [...]
Home run #: 28 Date: June 5 Opponent: San Francisco Giants Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Orel Hershiser Score: 0-0 Inning: 1 Outs: 1 Runners on: 1 Distance: 409 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 17 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 22 If you are going to chase down a record, you need a lot of things. You need [...]
Save for one game, this past weekend’s series with the Pittsburgh Pirates might have been the most dramatic you are ever going to find. In fairness, the Cardinals did have that great series with the Cubs where they walked games off twice with homers, so that’s right up there, but when you have two games [...]
My wife and I have a number of TV shows that we record throughout the year, mainly of the superhero variety. We tend not to watch them, however, until the kids get to bed which means we usually have stuff to watch because we just can’t keep up watching one, maybe two shows 3-4 times [...]
As was pointed out on Twitter, it was four years ago today that Oscar Taveras made his major league debut. Called up to join a team that was just barely over .500 and four games back in the standings, Tavares had been the object of many fans’ dreams for most of the season. Why were [...]
Home run #: 27 Date: May 30 Opponent: San Diego Padres Location: Qualcomm Stadium Pitcher: Andy Ashby Score: 0-0 Inning: 1 Outs: 2 Runners on: 0 Distance: 423 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 13 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 18 We said yesterday that it’s tough for anyone to hit a home run every day. But when you [...]
The uneven, herky-jerky ride of the 2018 St. Louis Cardinals lurched back upwards last night, taking a game from the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers and moving to four games behind them, staying 1/2 game behind the Chicago Cubs. As with a lot of wins this season, it was fronted by really good starting pitching, with just [...]
Home run #: 26 Date: May 29 Opponent: San Diego Padres Location: Qualcomm Stadium Pitcher: Dan Miceli Score: 6-0 Inning: 9 Outs: 1 Runners on: 1 Distance: 388 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 13 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 18 Even someone like Mark McGwire in 1998, when he seemed to be doing his best superhero impression, wasn’t [...]
The Memorial Day weekend is always one that I wind up not spending much time writing posts (though I did prep a couple more in our Marking McGwire series) and sometimes don’t even get a chance to watch all the games. That has never stopped us from talking about them before, of course, but it’s [...]
