The St. Louis Cardinals, based in St. Louis, Mo., participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the National League Central Division. The Cardinals were founded in 1892.
HOUSTON — One mistake doomed Kyle Lohse on Monday night, but not the one you might guess. Mostly, though, Lohse pitched well enough that no single slip-up should have cost him a game. The obvious mistake was the smaller one — a fastball to the Astros' Carlos Lee that came a little too close to [...]
ST. LOUIS — Joel Pineiro has discovered the solution to a lack of offensive support: just do it yourself. Pineiro turned in yet another fine performance on the mound and added a two-run single to boot, as the Cardinals beat the D-backs, 2-1, at Busch Stadium on Sunday. The Redbirds remained two games ahead of [...]
ST. LOUIS — Two of the best young pitchers in baseball matched up at Busch Stadium on Saturday night and unfortunately for Adam Wainwright and the Cardinals, Dan Haren was just a little bit better. Making his first regular-season appearance in St. Louis since pitching for the Cardinals in 2004, Haren limited his former team [...]
ST. LOUIS — About 25 minutes after the Cardinals' 6-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night, manager Tony La Russa was entertaining some guests in his office when he realized that he forgot to go to his postgame press conference with the media. La Russa hurried out of his office and ran up [...]
ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols had won two MVP's, a World Series and played in seven All-Star Games before taking the field at Busch Stadium on Tuesday night. But during his nine-year Major League career, the St. Louis slugger had never experienced what happened to him when he took the field in front of his [...]
ST. LOUIS — In this baseball-mad city, there's a pecking order. You have the current Cardinals. Further up the line, you have the Hall of Famers. And above them all is The Man. Stan Musial towers over baseball in St. Louis. He's the greatest Cardinals player there has ever been, a beloved figure not only [...]
ST. LOUIS — This has been Albert Pujols' town since about 2002, when he was the best player and MVP runner-up on a team that made an inspiring and engrossing run to the National League Central championship. The Cardinals have been Pujols' team for at least the past couple of seasons, since Scott Rolen and [...]
CHICAGO — On an unusual Sunday night that featured one pitcher playing left field and another breaking up a double play with his throwing hand, the Cardinals pulled out a win because their right fielder did what he is supposed to do. Ryan Ludwick continued his return to form in the cleanup spot, mashing a [...]
CHICAGO — Brad Thompson stood on the cusp of escape. The Cardinals' starting pitcher had loaded the bases in the first inning on two walks and a single but had two outs and got ahead of Milton Bradley, 0-2. With one pitch, things began to cave in on Thompson. The veteran right-hander tried to go [...]
CHICAGO — When Derrek Lee's game-tying three-run homer off Chris Carpenter sailed over the right-field fence in the third inning Friday, Ryan Ludwick had one simple thought. "We need more runs," Ludwick said. "That's all." The Cardinals got plenty, thanks in large part to Ludwick and Albert Pujols, who led the team to an 8-3 [...]