Both League Championship Series could be settled on Monday night, so prepare for some drama. And more home runs. Starting at 4:07 p.m. St. Louis time, the Phillies face the Diamondbacks in Game 6 of the NLCS. The Phillies lead the series 3-2, and the scene has shifted...
BIRD BYTES Good afternoon! The Cardinals are set to open a three-game weekend series at Philadelphia. I’m set to have an ice-cold Zwickel from Urban Chestnut and remain safely ensconced in my air-conditioned lair where I write, talk, ponder the meaning of life, lounge...
The Houston Astros will enter the World Series with a nine-game winning streak including their 7-0 record in the postseason. With the playoffs added in, they’ve won 113 games this season and figure to be the common-sense choice to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in...
Hello. This is the predictable column in which I look at the Phillies and Astros and wonder: what can the Cardinals learn from the two combatants that are set to clash in the 2022 World Series? Look, it isn’t easy to win a World Series. The Dodgers haven’t done it in...
It’s around 11 a.m. on Saturday morning, and I’m still struggling to process Oli Marmol’s thinking during the Cardinals’ devastating Game 1 loss to the Phillies at Busch Stadium. The first-year manager, so smart and cool-headed during the regular season, entered his...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Over the first three months of the 2022 season the Cardinals played a busy and hectic schedule that stretched the limits of their endurance, their pitching, their roster … and perhaps their sanity. They crammed in a MLB-high 74 games from April 14...
Welcome to The Redbird Review The Cardinals had a swell weekend, taking two of three from the Reds to narrow the gap in the race for the NL’s No. 2 wild card. It was a special weekend for Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado. Saturday night, he blasted the...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals aren’t a bad team. The Cardinals aren’t a good team. The Cardinals are a .500 team. They are a middling team. A medium team. A middle-of-the-road team. There is symmetry to their mediocrity. There is a consistency to their...
