Perfect. The towering presence on the mound, the monolith behind home plate. Adam Wainwright. Yadier Molina. Two legendary figures in all of their glory, setting a major-league record, entering their names into baseball history. There was so much to absorb, and nearly...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Is it a slump? Yeah, it kind of is. But I’d describe it a different way: the Cardinals are in a rut. It’s nothing extreme or particularly worrisome. Nothing, so far, that has weakened their hold over the Brewers for first place in the NL Central....
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The 2022 season is speeding by us. The Cardinals have only 24 games remaining on their schedule. Nine days from now, Summer officially will turn into Fall. On the second day of October, Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina will play their final...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW My goodness, where did that come from? Well, the Cardinals’ five-run lightning strike of a comeback in the 9th inning came from the same place where the old Albert Pujols turned young again … the same place where the young hitters turned into old...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Can I say something here? The Cardinals are a good team. A really good team. And a fun and entertaining team. I’ll draw the line right there. When the Cards begin competing in the 2022 postseason, we’ll see if they can be a great team. But I...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The Cardinals have MLB’s second-best record (25-11) since the All-Star break and had won seven of eight series in August before heading into Cincinnati. But even the best teams have clunkers, and the Cardinals went into the full zombie mode in...
REDBIRD REVIEW In my little ol’ opinion, here are the best things about STL’s 2-1 series win over the visiting Atlanta Braves: 1. Two determined and exciting comeback wins on Saturday and Sunday. It was an emphatic response after the Cardinals got thumped 11-4...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW In two of their first four games at Wrigley Field, the Cardinals failed to get much of anything done against a minor-league pitcher who was summoned by the Cubs to start against their rivals. First it was Javier Assad in the opener of Tuesday’s...
On the surface, it was improper for Cardinals catcher and franchise icon Yadier Molina to leave the team during the series in Arizona for reasons that had nothing to do with health, or a family-related emergency. Molina traveled to Puerto Rico to be with los Vaqueros...