Home run #: 15 Date: May 14 Opponent: Atlanta Braves Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Kevin Millwood Score: 1-0 Inning: 4 Outs: 0 Runners on: 0 Distance: 381 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 7 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 15 By Mark McGwire standards, the first half of May was pretty slow. Three home runs in the 13 [...]
Home run #: 14 Date: May 12 Opponent: Milwaukee Brewers Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Paul Wagner Score: 1-3 Inning: 5 Outs: 0 Runners on: 2 Distance: 527 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 7 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 15 Though it had only been a handful of days since his last round-tripper, Mark McGwire had lost a [...]
A while back, Tara Wellman and I did a little matching up of Cardinal players to Marvel superheroes. And while we went away from him with this comparison in our initial matchups (as you can see here, someone else took up the shield), in at least one way. He seems to have spawned a civil [...]
And the Cardinals lose this one 7-1. One run on….two hits? Two [lousy] hits? You can’t say [lousy] on this website! Ah, it’s OK, nobody’s reading anyway. Yesterday, we talked about how it was pretty understandable that the club might not have the same pep and verve that they had over the weekend. It was [...]
Home run #: 13 Date: May 8 Opponent: New York Mets Location: Shea Stadium Pitcher: Rick Reed Score: 0-1 Inning: 3 Outs: 1 Runners on: 1 Distance: 358 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 7 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 14 It took a little bit for Mark McGwire to make it to “unlucky” number 13. After [...]
After an exhilarating win in the wee hours of the morning, after a tense and action-packed weekend, we probably should have seen the letdown coming. All that emotion is impossible to sustain and so often after such highs there’s a crash. Last night, the bats suffered that crash. Any high-flying embers that the club might [...]
There are really no words for this weekend. I mean, we can try–and we will–to recap what happened from Friday to last night against the Chicago Cubs. We will probably pile up plenty of words talking about the injuries, the comebacks, the highs and lows. Yet trying to absorb what happened, the fact that this [...]
Baseball is a great game. You can have two games against the same opponent, in the same ballpark, finishing with the same score and yet they can be as different as myself and Dennis–and trust me, that’s VERY different. It was a quick series with the White Sox so let’s take a look at these [...]
Home run #: 12 Date: May 1 Opponent: Chicago Cubs Location: Wrigley Field Pitcher: Rod Beck Score: 3-6 Inning: 9 Outs: 2 Runners on: 1 Distance: 362 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 6 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 11 Eleven home runs in one month is pretty snazzy. However, it’s a six month season and, at [...]
If it wasn’t for the fact that we like to at least address every single Cardinals game, we probably could easily skip this weekend and everyone would be happier. Unfortunately, we’ve got to get to those games in Pittsburgh but before that, let’s remember happier times. Thursday (4-3 win in 13 over New York) Hero: [...]
Dennis was pretty inspiring with the title of his post this morning. It’s about time you can blame him for something I did instead of vice versa. Also, a tip of the hat to my musical resource and Gateway co-host Tara Wellman for getting this a little sharper than it was first pass. I would [...]
Home run #: 11 Date: April 30 Opponent: Chicago Cubs Location: Wrigley Field Pitcher: Marc Pisciotta Score: 1-8 Inning: 8 Outs: 1 Runners on: 1 Distance: 371 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 6 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 11 While obviously the home run exploits of Mark McGwire was the main story for the Cardinals, they came [...]
