JUPITER, Fla. — With about a week and a half left until the Cardinals face the Reds on Opening Day, there seems to be just one competition remaining in camp. Jaime Garcia is expected to be the No. 5 starter — though that is not yet official — which would slide Kyle McClellan into the [...]
JUPITER, Fla. — A second-inning double by Yadier Molina on Wednesday resulted in a strained right oblique. Now, the Cardinals' all-too-important catcher will miss Thursday's Spring Training game against the Mets and perhaps more. Not much was known about Molina's injury postgame, because the club wants to wait until he comes in on Thursday morning [...]
Welcome to what may be the last Inbox of Spring Training. As always, if you have a question, use the link below to submit it — and please be sure to include your first name, last initial and hometown. If you send a regular e-mail, rather than using the form, be certain to use the [...]
JUPITER, Fla. — Albert Pujols underwent an MRI exam and received an anti-inflammatory shot on Monday after the slugger was scratched from the Cardinals' home game against the Red Sox due to a recurrence of tightness in his lower back. Pujols missed a week earlier in the spring with the same condition. General manager John [...]
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A seemingly small announcement by the Cardinals on Sunday afternoon gave way to some increasing clarity regarding the team's still-in-flux bullpen situation. Shortly before Sunday's game against the Braves, which was eventually rained out in the second inning, the team announced that four players had been cut. Right-hander Josh Kinney [...]
CARDINALS 6, METS 5at Jupiter, Fla.Saturday, March 20 Mets at the plate: Jason Pridie had a double in the sixth inning. Frank Catalanotto had an RBI double and Chris Coste an RBI single in the seventh. Ike Davis hit a towering two-out solo homer that just cleared the left-center-field wall to tie the game at [...]
MARLINS 7, CARDINALS (ss) 6at Jupiter, Fla.Friday, March 19 Cardinals at the plate: With two outs in the third inning, Albert Pujols connected on his first home run of Spring Training. The All-Star crushed a 3-1 Anibal Sanchez offering out to left field. Pujols went deep on his 20th Grapefruit League at-bat. Joe Mather's RBI [...]
BRAVES 5, CARDINALS 3at Jupiter, Fla. Thursday, March 18 Braves at the plate: Chipper Jones hit a mammoth two-run homer off of Rich Hill in the third inning. Melky Cabrera singled twice and scored, and Omar Infante added two base hits for Atlanta. Freddie Freeman singled, walked and drove in a run. Cardinals at the [...]
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JUPITER, Fla. — With three overwhelming innings on Tuesday, Jaime Garcia didn't pitch himself into the Cardinals' fifth-starter spot. He may have forced his name back into the competition, though. From the start of Spring Training, it's been clear that Garcia was the third candidate in a three-man race for the job. The club prefers [...]
