In the end, Steve Lake wasn’t impressed most by his game-tying, two-run home run in the ninth inning. It wasn’t Jack Clark’s game-winning RBI single, either. It was the thousands of Cardinals fans still cheering on their Redbirds when the final pitch of a rain-delayed double-header was finally thrown at 3:01 a.m. on July 8, […]
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It was a strange twist of fate that in his final game as Cardinals manager, Solly Hemus watched two players whose careers he had mismanaged led his club to a 9-1 win over a Dodgers team that was chasing a National League pennant. Bill White hit three home runs and a double and Bob Gibson
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On June 30, 1954, Joe Cunningham kicked off his 12-year major-league career with a single, homer, and five RBIs in an 11-3 St. Louis Cardinals victory over the Cincinnati Redlegs. Cunningham had been with the Cardinals’ International League affiliate, the Rochester Red Wings, on June 29 when manager Harry Walker informed the 22-year-old that he
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On almost any other day, Willie McGee would have been the star of the game. On June 23, 1984, Willie McGee became the first Cardinal since Lou Brock in 1975 to hit for the cycle, driving in six runs and scoring three times. Nonetheless, the game will forever be known as “the Ryne Sandberg game”
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The Cardinals got more than they bargained for when they called Bo Hart up from Triple-A Memphis to replace injured infielder Miguel Cairo. A 33rd-round pick in the 1999 draft who was signed for $1,000,[1] Hart was an unlikely major leaguer. After playing his college baseball as a shortstop at Gonzaga, Hart hit just .184
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Given the long journey Ozzie Smith took to become an above-average major league hitter, it was no wonder that he wept with joy and appreciation after he tripled on May 26, 1992, for his 2,000th career hit. “I did not want to leave the game being known as a one-dimensional player,” Smith said. “Maybe tonight
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It was fitting that Vince Coleman earned the first home run of his big league career without clearing the outfield wall. On May 21, 1985, the rookie outfielder hit his first career homer, Willie McGee stole three bases, and Ricky Horton threw 3 2/3 scoreless innings of relief to lift the Cardinals to a 6-3
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After Cardinals pitcher Joaquin Andujar held the Atlanta Braves to one run over nine innings and supported his own cause with a grand slam, shortstop Ozzie Smith had to admit that he was disappointed. “There’s no way we can get on him now,” Smith said. “We like to give him trouble, but there’s nothing we
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As Roger Maris emerged from the dugout in the sixth inning of the Cardinals’ 6-3 win over the Pirates on May 9, 1967, St. Louis first baseman Orlando Cepeda somehow knew that something special was about to happen. “I told him when he left the dugout, he would hit a home run,” Cepeda said.[1] Maris
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Orlando Cepeda and Ray Sadecki could not have had more different reactions when they were traded for one another on May 8, 1966. The trade was announced after the Giants’ three-game sweep of the Cardinals in the final games played at historic Sportsman’s Park. Cepeda, who missed almost the entire 1965 season with a right
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