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.
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers and the Cardinals turned the first two-thirds of Game 1 of the National League Division Series into an exhibition of missed opportunities. Or, for the cup-is-half-full set, clutch pitching. It took the teams just six innings to break the record for most men left on base in a Division Series [...]
LOS ANGELES — To understand all that Chris Carpenter will take to the mound on Wednesday when he faces the Dodgers in Game 1 of the best-of-five National League Division Series, you have to first understand where the Cardinals starter has been. He went from a 2006 season that culminated with a World Series championship [...]
LOS ANGELES — The last thing Brendan Ryan needs is another reason to get excited. So although he definitely has one this week, he's doing all he can not to get too caught up in what's going on around him. Ryan is a Los Angeles native, and playing at Dodger Stadium in the playoffs is [...]
ST. LOUIS — The Braves have been around the playoffs, but they haven't won it all. The Phillies have won the big prize, but they haven't been a fixture. Over the course of the past decade, the face of the National League in October has been the Cardinals. A title like "team of the decade" [...]
ST. LOUIS — With the 162-game, six-month grind of a prelude out of the way, Albert Pujols is ready for the fun stuff. Pujols loves playing in October, and after being deprived of the pleasure for two years, he's as excited as ever for his sixth postseason. He's coming off what might have been his [...]
ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals reached the end of the regular season on Sunday afternoon thankful for a clean start. After twice tying the game in the eighth and ninth innings, the Cardinals fell to the Brewers, 9-7, in 10 innings at Busch Stadium. The loss was the Cardinals' third in a row and their [...]
ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols may not win his second Gold Glove Award this year, but he set a new defensive record on Sunday afternoon. With a toss to pitcher Joel Pineiro in the fifth inning of Sunday's game against the Brewers, Pujols set a Major League record for most assists in a season by [...]
ST. LOUIS — It's been up in the air for days while the Dodgers lost five straight and their magic number remained at one over the Rockies, but Los Angeles' 5-0 win over Colorado at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night finalized the National League playoff field. Earlier Saturday, the Cardinals' 5-4 loss to the Brewers [...]
ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright sat and watched for almost four years as several of his Cardinals teammates got to tip their cap to the home crowd after receiving a famous St. Louis curtain call for a big home run or hit. The pitcher finally got to experience one himself on Friday night. Wainwright was [...]
ST. LOUIS — A day after teammate Chris Carpenter helped his cause for a second Cy Young Award by clinching the NL ERA title, Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright took to the Busch Stadium mound hoping to make one final impression on any undecided voters. After leaving with a comfortable five-run lead in the seventh inning, [...]