Keith Hernandez's Star Was Rising 40 Years Ago With Cardinals

In the past 50 years, only four Cardinals players have hit double figures in doubles, triples, home runs and stolen bases in the same season. By the way, that would have been an impossibility in 2018 because the entire team didn’t have double figures in triples (nine).

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Cardinals-Pirates Is A Win-Laden Matchup Almost Without Precedent

The teams with the two best records in baseball square off in Pittsburgh tonight, a matchup of 95-plus-win teams that is quite rare.

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You Could Look It Up: Enhanced?

In the aftermath of Mark McGwire’s confession, one of the more dubious reactions came, as you might expect, from the MLB Network’s own Harold Reynolds. Reynolds said (I paraphrase) that even if you accepted McGwire’s explanation that he received no performance benefit from his usage of so-called performance-enhancing drugs, but rather was doing so to thwart his own physical frailty, then McGwire still did something wrong, because the marathon baseball season requires stamina. If you resort to taking a drug to stay on the field, you’ve cheated your way to overcoming a basic requirement of the sport.

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