Home run #: 25 Date: May 25 Opponent: Colorado Rockies Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: John Thomson Score: 3-0 Inning: 1 Outs: 2 Runners on: 0 Distance: 433 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 11 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 18 The number 25 never has been retired in St. Louis, given the suspicions and eventual confirmation of Mark McGwire‘s [...]
A day removed from the loss to the Royals, things are still disappointing but not quite as frustrating and aggravating as they were in the moment. Wednesday afternoon was full of snarky remarks, invective hurled, and doomsaying. Now, while it’s still not a game to really want to revisit, it’s not quite as immediate. I [...]
Home run #: 24 Date: May 24 Opponent: San Francisco Giants Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Robb Nen Score: 4-6 Inning: 12 Outs: 2 Runners on: 1 Distance: 397 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 9 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 18 Mark McGwire had a blast or four facing the Giants in this series, but the home run he [...]
Opponent: San Francisco Giants Location: Busch Stadium End of day Sammy Sosa total: 9 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 17 Just like a summer rainstorm in the midwest (and even this far south), sometimes it’ll come out of the blue but when it comes, it comes hard. That was Mark McGwire‘s power at the end [...]
With a weak Kansas City team, at least by the standard of their record and place in the AL Central, coming into town and a Cardinal team that felt like it was starting to be what it was supposed to be, you’d have liked to have seen St. Louis just run rampant throughout this series. [...]
Home run #: 21 Date: May 22 Opponent: San Francisco Giants Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Mark Gardner Score: 0-1 Inning: 6 Outs: 1 Runners on: 1 Distance: 425 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 9 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 17 When Mark McGwire hit three home runs in a game in April, it took a while before [...]
You could say a lot of things about this past weekend’s series with the Philadelphia Phillies. Consistency wouldn’t necessarily be one of them. With a win-loss-win-loss pattern and some things looking bad on one day and great on another, you hate to draw too many conclusions. That said, there were some tantalizing possibilities throughout the [...]
Opponent: Philadelphia Phillies Location: Veterans Stadium End of day Sammy Sosa total: 8 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 16 As we’ve mentioned, Mark McGwire really heated up in the middle of May. While he’d been hitting a home run every other day, he decided to clump a few together on a Tuesday night with the [...]
Home run #: 17 Date: May 18 Opponent: Florida Marlins Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Jesus Sanchez Score: 0-5 Inning: 4 Outs: 0 Runners on: 0 Distance: 476 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 8 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 16 Whether it was the warmer weather, a great groove, or some mix of the two, with the middle of [...]
My Meet Me at Musial cohost Allen Medlock messaged me yesterday, asking if I thought the bats would wake up in the last game of the series with the Minnesota Twins. My gut feeling was that the fact they were very familiar with Lance Lynn and the fact that he’d be throwing 90% fastballs coupled [...]
Home run #: 16 Date: May 16 Opponent: Florida Marlins Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Livan Hernandez Score: 1-3 Inning: 4 Outs: 0 Runners on: 0 Distance: 545 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 8 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 16 If there is one lasting image from 1998 that doesn’t come from September, it’s probably this one. On a [...]
The broad side of the barn is safe. I’m not sure anyone on the Cardinals could hit it. We’ve got five games to cover here. The Cardinals scored nine runs in one of them. They scored seven runs in the other four combined, including one that went to 13 innings. While there was a glitch [...]
