WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S On another downcast day for baseball in the city of St. Louis, the defective Cardinals found multiple ways to lose a 6-5 game to the White Sox in 10 innings. A three-hour rain delay just prolonged the torment. The perpetually bizarre home plate...
By refusing to shake Oli Marmol’s hand before Saturday’s exhibition-season opener, umpire C.B. Bucknor put MLB to the test. Last August at a game in Arizona, Bucknor and the Cardinals manager got into a heated confrontation about the umpire’s typically incoherent...
