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Sports Central October 29, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Let's Get Surreal "If that's not the best postseason game of all time," Lance Berkman huffed and puffed, when it was over in a 10-9 St. Louis Cardinals win that not even the Cardinals, never mind the Texas Rangers, can quite believe happened, "I don't know what is." |
Sports Central October 18, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Running of the Bulls A look at the pitching choices in post-season MLB play. |
Sports Central November 6, 2011 Louie Centanni |
The Best Worst Game in World Series History The St. Louis Cardinals overcame heavy odds in winning the 2011 World Series. While Game 7 was the clincher, the previous contest will be remembered as the turning point. |
Sports Central October 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Hold Those Tigers The Detroit Tigers took one of the worst elimination beatings in postseason history. |
Sports Central October 14, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Capital Humblings For Bold Challengers On Friday the very experienced St. Louis Cardinals and the very experienced New York Yankees gave their worthy, younger, upstart Beltway challengers enough experience in their five-game division series showdowns to bode well enough for the immediate and longer-range futures of each. |
Sports Central October 24, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 1: Getting the Drop on the Cardinals It's not that the Boston Red Sox needed the help that badly, opening the World Series with a near-blowout win. But they certainly weren't going to complain if the St. Louis Cardinals wanted to help their cause early enough and often enough. |
Sports Central October 22, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS Game 6: Daddy Took the T-Bird Away There'll be no more fun for the 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers. Daddy took the T-Bird away in Busch Stadium last Friday. And you can spend all winter debating whether or not the Dodgers themselves gave him the ammunition on a platter. |
Sports Central November 1, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
The Agony of a Defeat Game 6 of the World Series should be remembered as the most heart-stopping baseball game in history. The fact that the Cardinals prevailed in Game 7 adds to its historical standing. |
Sports Central October 13, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS Game 1: Beltran 3, Dodgers 2 You'd be hard pressed to find any member of the St. Louis Cardinals in deep shock that Carlos Beltran saw fit to win Game 1 of the National League Championship Series just about by himself. |
Sports Central September 8, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Farewell to Washington: Temporarily? The Rangers, whose season was blown up by a rash of injuries that probably drove Ron Washington quietly mad, became the first team in baseball to be eliminated mathematically from a pennant race. |
Sports Central October 4, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Cardinals Open with a Belt(ran) "Some guys," Matt Carpenter said, "just have a knack for a big game and he's one of them." The Cardinals would love nothing more than to have Carlos Beltran's knack swing them to 10 more October wins. Including the four that end with World Series rings on their fingers. |
Sports Central October 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Maybe We Get Our Goats at Last Maybe, little by little, people are beginning to get the idea that a baseball postseason goat doesn't always deserve the goat horns because he didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do. |
Sports Central October 19, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Look, Ma, No Atrocities! Presumably, the world can breathe a little easier now that the first post-Slide confrontation between Matt Holliday and the San Francisco Giants has ended without on-field amputations, at-the-plate decapitations, or other actual or reputed disembowelings. |
Sports Central October 28, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 4: Shazam! At the rate this Weird Series is going, who's to say Game 5 won't end with a bullpen pitcher throwing out the would-be winning run at the plate? |
Sports Central November 1, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Move Over, Idiots ... Meet the Morons This one's already shaping up to be a brain bender. It might well stay that way even if the San Francisco Giants end up winning the thing in four straight. |
Sports Central October 14, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Cardinals May Have Lost in Game 2 Win At what cost will the St. Louis Cardinals' National League Championship Series-evening win Sunday night prove to have come? |
Sports Central October 23, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Singin' in the Rain The baseball gods to whom former star first baseman Will Clark referred after Game 2 sketched poetic justice for the last National League Championship Series out. But the gods don't play baseball games, mortal men do. |
Sports Central October 11, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Cardinals Close the Pirates' Storybook The team who lived and died by almost anything except big power on the regular season bombed themselves into the National League Championship Series Wednesday night. |
Sports Central October 25, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: No Time For Generosity Want to know what we learned from World Series Game 2? Easy. The St. Louis Cardinals aren't the only ones who can hand their opponent a game on an infield platter. |
Sports Central October 31, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 6: B Invincible The Red Sox turned out to be the best team in baseball, winning a World Series against a team that was the next-best team in baseball by a hair. And, a three-run double. And, perhaps, the most inadvertent destiny in 21st Century baseball. |
Sports Central December 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Central September 6, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
Cardinals, Reds Now Left to Look to 2012 We end this season right where we began -- what's Albert Pujols going to do? If he goes, the modern era of Cardinals relevance might just well go with him. |
Sports Central October 17, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Giants Thrown Onto Threshold of World Series Is it unreasonable for Cardinals fans to ask themselves whether their team is trying, literally, to throw this National League Championship Series to the Giants? |
Sports Central April 3, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
One Down, Nine to Go Baseball season has begun. Here's a look at the recent Mets vs. Cardinals game. |
Sports Central October 18, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
So Much for That Extra Day's Rest That the extra day's rest the Monday rain-out afforded may have wounded the Mets' lineup, dissolving their Sunday blowout momentum. |
Sports Central July 1, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Mad Max, Chasing Face? This season, winning 12 without a loss at this writing, Max Scherzer's more than a feel-good story, he's almost the story for the otherwise Al Central-leading Tigers. |
Sports Central October 8, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Nats Win, By Hook or By Rooks Bryce Harper might be the overwhelming Rookie of the Year winner when the hardware voting is revealed in due course, but he's not the only Washington Nationals rookie with a talent for coming up powerfully enough when the game gets late. |
Sports Central October 5, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Those A's, Dumb Enough to Win As of 3:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, October 3, 2012, when Michael Young's two-strike fly completed its near-perfect trajectory into the glove of Coco Crisp striding forward to haul it down, Oakland, California believes in miracles. |
Sports Central October 18, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS Game 5: Fun, Fun, Fun "If you're not having fun in the playoffs," Adrian Gonzalez said after the Dodgers banked Game 5, "then you don't deserve to be here." |
Sports Central November 5, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
La Russa, Out on Top Tony La Russa decided to retire when he was at the absolute top of his game, two days after he finished shepherding the St. Louis Cardinals to the unlikeliest World Series triumph of ... maybe ever. |
Sports Central October 14, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLDS: Clubs (er, Cubs) Go to NLCS Believe it. The Chicago Cubs have clubbed their way into the National League Championship Series. |
Sports Central October 22, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central January 30, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Maybe it's Still Getting Our Goats, After All On the other hand, maybe we're not getting our goats as readily as I thought last fall. What the hell is this crap with sending San Francisco 49ers punt returner Kyle Williams death threats? |
Sports Central October 8, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Goodbye, Atlanta Braves, Yet Again The Braves, who managed to shake off a few hiccups and a few dubious deals to post the National League's best regular season record, deserved better than regular season managing in a win-or-be-gone game. |
Sports Central October 17, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
The Fall Classic: Slots Are Filling Fast The Chicago White Sox against the Houston Astros for all the marbles? Not my first choices back in April. |
Sports Central December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central March 7, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
The St. Louis Cards Are Not All Right The Cards have a great one-two with Pujols and Matt Holliday, and Carpenter is a true gamer, but only a fool would put money on St. Louis as the favorites for the NL Central, let alone with World Series. |
Sports Illustrated October 18, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Waiting for McGwire Slugger's absence makes us wonder what might've been... |
Sports Central June 6, 2013 Joshua Duffy |
John Mozeliak, Take a Bow Being a Major League General Manager is an ever-delicate walk between trying to win now while at the same time setting up for the long term. |
Sports Central November 1, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 3: The Camera Blinked A clean enough double was actually a two-run bomb - the ball had hit a television camera off the right field fence. |
Sports Central March 6, 2006 Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: National League Look for an exciting A's/Cards World Series. St. Louis will be the best team in baseball for the third straight year, and LaRussa's club will finally have a ring to show for it. |
Sports Central March 5, 2008 Ryan Day |
The Rise and Fall of Scott Spiezio A look into Spiezio's professional career reveals more than a drug-addicted, marginal player. |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Salon.com September 19, 2002 King Kaufman |
Curt Schilling needs the ball The five-man rotation steals starts from aces and gives them to lesser arms. When will a manager have the guts to ditch it? |
Salon.com October 9, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
Salon.com October 16, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff picking, but not grinning Our writer boldly holds forth on the Yankees, the Mariners and the most hideous uniforms in baseball, and asks himself, "How many times can you be wrong about one team?" |
Sports Central October 24, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central October 16, 2009 Seth Doria |
Cards Have to Keep Holliday It's an image that won't soon leave the minds of St. Louis Cardinals fans. |
Sports Central July 17, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
2013 All-Star Game: Priceless Who'd have figured American League All-Star manager Jim Leyland thinking he could perform the marriage of sentiment and sound strategy in a single gesture and get away with it because, damn it, it worked, the American League held onto a 3-0 win? |
Sports Central December 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |