Adam Wainwright Continuing To Build

Provided the rain subsides, the St. Louis Cardinals will return to action with an uninterrupted rotation of Adam Wainwright pitching against Milwaukee and then Lance Lynn, Mike Leake, and Michael Wacha starting in Atlanta.

STL Baseball Weekly

How Lynn McGlothen Sparked Battle With Mets

Tired of Del Unser pounding his pitches, Lynn McGlothen decided to pound Unser with a pitch. In doing so, McGlothen triggered a beanball battle, a melee and a war of words between the Mets and Cardinals.

RetroSimba

Why Cardinals Dealt Ken Reitz After Gold Glove Season

Enticed by the chance to add a left-hander to the starting rotation and a potential power hitter to the batting order, the Cardinals gave up a Gold Glove Award winner at third base.

RetroSimba

Why Cardinals Gave Six Intentional Walks To Giants

Forty years ago, the Cardinals established a major-league record for most intentional walks issued by one team in a nine-inning game.

RetroSimba

How Ron Reed Replaced Bob Gibson In Cardinals Rotation

Convinced Bob Gibson no longer should be a starter, the Cardinals acquired Ron Reed from the Braves and put him in the rotation as the replacement for their long-time ace.

RetroSimba

The Night John Curtis Pitched A One-Hitter For The Cardinals

For one night, at least, amid the excitement of a pennant chase, John Curtis showed the Cardinals a flash of the high-caliber talent they had expected when they acquired him as the key player in a trade with the Red So

RetroSimba

A Random Blog On Bob Gibson

Bill James has one of his fun studies up on BillJamesonline.com, where he asks: How often does a team's Opening Day starter turn out to be actually the best pitcher on the team?

ESPN

Red Schoendienst Made Cardinals HR History

When Lance Berkman hit home runs from each side of the plate April 28, he became the sixth Cardinals player to do so and the first in 17 years.

Retro Simba

Silvio Martinez

As I was enjoying Chris Reed’s inaugural article for I-70 Baseball, When Will David Freese Run Out Of Chances?, I couldn’t help but think back of another player from the late 70′s that had a similar run-in with bad karma. That young man was Silvio Martinez, a little right-hander that looked like a slight breeze might blow off the mound, but possessed one of the liveliest arms of his era. Before reading any farther, place a pillow under your chin. When you hear what he did in his rookie season, I wouldn’t want you to get hurt when your jaw drops all the way to the floor.

Throatwarbler's Blog

Will Adam Wainwright's Home Pitching Feats Continue?

At Busch Stadium, Adam Wainwright has posted among the most impressive results of any pitcher in St. Louis Cardinals history.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

Joel Pineiro's Bizarro Three-True-Outcomes Night

Following Todd Wellemeyer, whom we’ve cited in this space for his three-true-outcome pitching propensity, in the rotation, Joel Pineiro took the mound against the Mets and pitched to contact. A lot of it. Pineiro got the Mets to put the ball in play, but kept it in the park, facing 30 batters en route to the team’s 5-2 win Wednesday.

Fungoes

Cardinals Of Yore: Steve Carlton

Today marks the 37th anniversary of arguably the worst move in Cardinals history: The club jettisoned ace hurler Steve Carlton over an excruciatingly small contract dispute.

View From The Cheap Seats

A League Divided: Part 4 (1969-81)

In three previous articles, the AL and NL have been divided up into Easts and Wests, given an unbalanced schedule, and discussed as the results warrant. Now that we're up to 1969, when leagues got real-life divisions, we'll re-alignh from the two division playoff format to three divisions and one wild card to see what will happen.

The Hardball Times