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.
ST. LOUIS — The season ended with disappointment, but for much of the summer, the magic was back at Busch Stadium. After finishing out of the money in both 2007 and 2008, the Cardinals returned to their accustomed place atop the National League Central in 2009, running out to a double-digit lead before finishing a [...]
ST. LOUIS — John Smoltz expressed a strong interest in returning to the Cardinals for 2010, but many of his free-agent-to-be teammates were less sure about what the future may hold for them. As players cleared out their lockers on Sunday, a day after the Cardinals were eliminated from the playoffs in three games by [...]
ST. LOUIS — Cardinals manager Tony La Russa still has yet to decide what he wants to do for the 2010 season, but if he decides he'd like to return to the helm of the Redbirds, he's more than welcome to do so. General manager John Mozeliak said on Sunday that if La Russa wanted [...]
ST. LOUIS — Halfway through a promising 2009 season, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak took a look at his cards, assessed his hand and decided he liked what he saw. So he bet big. A month earlier, in June, Mozeliak had made a relatively small bet, trading reliever Chris Perez for a third-base solution in [...]
ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals may have had several chances to score runs in Game 1 of the National League Division Series and were only an out away from a win in Game 2, but after being ousted from the playoffs with a three-game sweep at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday [...]
ST. LOUIS — The precarious position that the Cardinals find themselves muddied in is really not all that unfamiliar here in St. Louis. In fact, you have to only travel back to 2004 to find some context for it. It was an election year, of course, and the year in which the Olympics returned to [...]
ST. LOUIS — As manager Tony La Russa walked out of his team's clubhouse and to the interview room at Busch Stadium on Friday afternoon, he passed a television showing highlights from the 2007 National League West play-in game. It was a valuable reminder, not that La Russa needed it. Matt Holliday's misplay in left [...]
LOS ANGELES — John Smoltz was standing off to the side as Matt Holliday was facing the music in the Cardinals' hushed clubhouse at Dodger Stadium on Thursday. This was a moment Smoltz had seen before. "There's so many things that are unfair about baseball and about sports, it's unfortunate," the veteran Cardinals pitcher said. [...]
LOS ANGELES — At some point, the Cardinals will start driving runners in. The law of average assures us of that. However, the question remains: Will it be nothing more than too little, too late? Matt Holliday and Ryan Franklin dually agreed to share the blame after the Cardinals' gut-wrenching 3-2 loss to the Dodgers [...]
LOS ANGELES — So often linked by success, Chris Carpenter and Albert Pujols shared frustration on Wednesday night. Carpenter started slow and never got right, and Pujols was simply taken out of the game as the Cardinals lost to the Dodgers, 5-3, at Dodger Stadium in the opener of their National League Division Series. Both [...]