By Chris Brown / STL Baseball Today Adam Wainwright’s improbable return to the major league roster is now almost upon us, as the veteran threw another simulated game on Monday in what he believes was his final test before being activated. After the throwing session, the Cardinals ace, sidelined sinceRead More
By Chris Brown / STL Baseball Today Updated 9/28 @ 8:30 am CT: Despite Sunday’s crushing 8-4 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers — who lit up closer Trevor Rosenthal in the ninth inning — the Cardinals are now in position to clinch in the NL Central division with a series winRead More
By Chris Brown / STL Baseball Today One day after exiting after five innings as a precaution due to left hip tightness, Matt Carpenter is in the Cardinals starting lineup on Sunday as the redbirds look to take three out of four from the Brewers. Carpenter told reporters after the game that theRead More
By Chris Brown / STL Baseball Today Updated 9/27 @ 1:00pm CT: Adam Wainwright now appears just one step away from completing his rehab from a torn Achilles tendon and returning to the Cardinals in a relief role for the first time since 2006. Cleared for baseball activities last week,Read More
By Chris Brown / STL Baseball Today Cardinals third baseman Matt Carpenter exited Saturday night’s game against the Brewers after just five innings due to left hip tightness, with Mark Reynolds taking over at third base. The team announced that his removal was precautionary. “Yeah, just tight,” Carpenter told BrianRead More
By Chris Brown / STL Baseball Today As the Cardinals get closer to activating ace Adam Wainwright from the disabled list more than five months after he tore his Achilles tendon, the team will now head into the postseason without the young breakout star who stepped up as a leaderRead More
By Chris Brown / STL Baseball Today The Cardinals are hoping that Carlos Martinez’s breakout season did not not come to a sudden end on Friday night, when the right-hander walked off the field into the dugout with his glove over his face just six pitches into his start againstRead More
By Chris Brown – STL Baseball Today After making his first start since July on Wednesday, Matt Holliday was not in the lineup Thursday night as the Cardinals kicked of a four game series against the Brewers. But as Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch explains, the day ofRead More