Not surprisingly, last season’s World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals had little trouble beating a Houston Astros team that racked up its most losses in franchise history.
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The National League announced its Pitcher of the Month for April yesterday, and it was Washington’s Stephen Strasburg. Strasburg had a terrific month and did much to earn the award. He just didn’t do as much as Lance Lynn of the St. Louis Cardinals, in my view. In fact, if the award hadn’t gone to Lynn, it should have gone to his teammate, Kyle Lohse.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) Carlos Beltran drove in a career-best seven runs with a pair of three-run home runs and RBI single in the first three innings, leading the way as the St. Louis Cardinals punished A.J. Burnett and the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-3 on Tuesday night.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Rod Barajas and manager Clint Hurdle have been ejected in the second inning against the St. Louis Cardinals.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) The St. Louis Cardinals have started taking batting practice early to avoid late-afternoon shadows.
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Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa will have his No. 10 retired by the team on May 11.
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The Chicago Cubs finished the month of April with an 8-15 record. As a Cubs fan, though, I was happy with the team’s final week of the month, as they finished 4-3 against the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies. Things are definitely looking better for the rebuilding Cubs. However, with Joe Mather as the only outfielder who has hit a home run, the Cubs will need more power production from their outfielders if they hope to improve their record in May.
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The St. Louis Cardinals had not scored any runs in April for right-hander Adam Wainwright in his first 19 2/3 innings over four starts. Not surprisingly, Wainwright, who had not pitched all that well in a couple of those games, was 0-3.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) Adam Wainwright finally made it back into the win column. It didn’t hurt that the St. Louis Cardinals finally scored some runs for the right-hander.
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The request we’re sending to bloggers of all 30 teams this spring is a simple one: What are the 10 best things about being a fan of your favorite team? What features of the franchise have you excited for opening day and what keeps you coming back year after year?
As we reach the end of our little experiment, we’re glad to hear that so many of you enjoyed the ride. Polishing off our series is our own David Brown .
1. Oct. 26, 2005: The White Sox had gone 88 years since winning the World Series, a streak of morbidity longer than the Boston Red Sox were riding into 2004 when they finally won it all. Further, the White Sox’s futility was 91 percent as long as the Cubs’ 97-season streak without a championship. They were just as bad or worse than the Red Sox and Cubs and yet, outside of Chicago — at least the parts that root for the White Sox — no one cared about the South Side. They didn’t care when Juan Uribe and Paul Konerko teamed up to record the final out at Minute Maid Park against the Houston Astros. The ineptness of the Cubs and Red Sox was lamented internationally, even celebrated. Much of the baseball world had held its breath two in 2003 when the Cubs were six outs away from a World Series date with the Yankees. And it let out a mighty exhale in ’04 when the Red Sox came back to beat the Yankees in the ALCS and then the Cardinals in the World Series. White Sox fans are born alone, they die alone and they celebrated the ’05 World Series alone. And can’t no one ever take that way. Our trophy! Get away!
2. Paul Konerko’s grand slam against Chad Qualls in Game 2:
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