A post yesterday wasn’t happening after a late night recording a Meet Me at Musial/Gateway To Baseball Heaven crossover (Infinity War, eat your heart out), but that turned out to be a good thing. What would have been completely a downer post now gets leavened by a very good outing by the local nine. Let’s [...]
Home run #: 10 Date: April 25 Opponent: Philadelphia Phillies Location: Veteran Stadium Pitcher: Jerry Spradlin Score: 3-5 Inning: 7 Outs: 2 Runners on: 1 Distance: 419 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 5 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 8 Reaching double digits in home runs usually means you’ve had a pretty solid year. I mean, if [...]
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that this past weekend was the annual blogger event at Busch Stadium, affectionately known as #ucbweekend. The fun and buzz from that will take a while to wear off and I need to write something on what John Mozeliak and Bill DeWitt III said (though STL Hat [...]
Home run #: 9 Date: April 21 Opponent: Montreal Expos Location: Olympic Stadium Pitcher: Trey Moore Score: 0-0 Inning: 3 Outs: 2 Runners on: 1 Distance: 437 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 3 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 8 It was a weird quirk but, until April 21 of that legendary season, Mark McGwire had [...]
As we know, running through a road trip undefeated is a tough chore for any team. Last year, the Cards had that trip through Atlanta and Miami, but those things are pretty rare (and, sadly, that was not a sign of things to come). So when the Cardinals went into Thursday’s game with an extra [...]
Per Joe Trezza, the Cardinals are expected to promote Tyler O’Neill on Thursday. Trezza also says that a reliever would be sent out, which would seem to be John Brebbia unless they can talk Greg Holland into another minor league stint.
It was a night game in Wrigley and the temperatures were frigid. While it’s a stretch to say that’s not the only way last night’s game seemed like a playoff game, it definitely didn’t seem to be a typical game in April either. It was a game the Cardinals–most notably, Mike Matheny–were making a more-than-normal [...]
Home run #: 8 Date: April 17 Opponent: Philadelphia Phillies Location: Busch Stadium Pitcher: Matt Whiteside Score: 3-3 Inning: 4 Outs: 2 Runners on: 1 Distance: 419 feet End of day Sammy Sosa total: 3 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 7 Apparently Mark McGwire did more than rain homers. After his three homer game against the Diamondbacks, the [...]
A snowed out game in April is just another reason I’d never want to live in Chicago. I can’t imagine how miserable it would have been to play in those conditions last night. However, it did work in my advantage as getting up to write yesterday just wasn’t happening, so we only have three games [...]
Opponent: Arizona Diamondbacks Location: Busch Stadium End of day Sammy Sosa total: 2 End of day Ken Griffey Jr. total: 6 To hit 70 home runs in 162 games is an incredible feat, of course. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be marking the 20th anniversary of it happening. For one thing, it’s hardly ever 162 [...]
I imagine there’s a contingent of fans who are wanting to discount last night’s game because it was Cincinnati and their pitching staff is less than stellar. Indeed, their team ERA after last night is over 6, the worst in the major leagues. Their reliever ERA is even worse, over seven. Their record is 2-10 [...]
We so often talk about the impact of a signature win. A big win that can spur a team on to greater heights because they dug deep and did the improbable. A huge outing that let them know what they are possible of and they ride the crest of that for a week or so [...]
