The first time the Cardinals took a one-run lead last night, it lasted two batters. After Miles Mikolas struck out Hunter Renfroe leading off the second inning, he threw a 2-2 fastball to Brandon Drury. The pitch rode in about a foot higher than the strike zone. It was, I would imagine, the kind of […]
LA Didn’t Need the Extra Help
If you are scuffling through a difficult stretch of the season, desperately hoping to gain some traction, the Chavez Ravine home of the Los Angeles Dodgers is possibly the last place you would want to find yourself. This is even more true if your series there against one of baseball’s best-monied teams came at the […]
I’ve Seen Worse
It was almost exactly fifty years ago today. April 29, 1973 was a Sunday, and the Cards were hosting the San Francisco Giants in an afternoon game. Cardinal starter Rick Wise worked around a couple of singles in the first inning, but found himself in immediate second inning trouble. Dave Kingman led off with a […]
Is Alec Burleson Here to Stay?
Jose Ruiz’s fastball flew in at 95 miles-per-hour, right over the middle of the plate. That it was three or four inches high didn’t matter to the Cardinal hitter, who turned on the pitch and lined it 393 feet over the right-field wall. The two-run home run didn’t impact the game. It turned a 6-1 […]
MLB Apologizes for Sunday Afternoon
SPECIAL FOR RANDOM CARDINAL STATS: In all fairness, not every game played on Sunday was a disaster. Philadelphia scored a decent number of runs (14) as it smashed Cincinnati, and Washington’s 7-6 win over Cleveland was, at least, close. But by-and-large the Sunday games saw a resurgence of that most dreaded occurrence – the pitchers’ […]
Heroism and Controversy: A Final Assessment of Super Bowl LVII
As the Kansas City Chiefs limped into the locker room at halftime of Super Bowl LVII (57), things couldn’t have looked much worse. Even the 24-14 halftime deficit didn’t do justice to the depth of Kansas City’s difficulties. If you are going to beat a team as talented and well-coached as the Eagles, there is […]