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Stan Musial remembered during funeral Mass
Stan Musial was remembered during a funeral and memorial outside Busch Stadium on Saturday as a Hall of Famer and a St. Louis icon embraced by ...
Baseball's best rarely finish on top in October
Best in baseball? The Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants spent much of the season just trying to catch mediocre teams like the Chicago White Sox ...
Giants on to World Series with 9-0 win over Cards
San Francisco's players, soaked to the core in a driving rain, began running around the field slapping high-fives with fans. Sergio Romo danced ...
Cardinals lose Game 7 of NLCS 9-0 to Giants
Rookie shortstop Pete Kozma moved to his right, only to watch the line drive off Hunter Pence's broken bat inexplicably change directions when the ...
Giants beat Cardinals 6-1 to force NLCS Game 7
The San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals sure have something about going down to final games this postseason. So it's fitting that the two ...
Cardinals forced to make another trip out West
The Giants sure are tough to eliminate this postseason. Barry Zito and the Giants gave themself at least one more game in the NL championship series ...
Zito, Giants beat Cards, close NLCS deficit to 3-2
The big curveball was back, and Barry Zito mixed in some well-placed fastballs, too. It was just like the good old days. Zito was at his best Friday ...
Beltran returns to Cardinals' lineup in NLCS
Carlos Beltran returned to the St. Louis Cardinals' starting lineup Friday night for Game 5 of the NL championship series. Beltran said his strained ...
Cardinals beat Giants 8-3 to take 3-1 lead in NLCS
The St. Louis Cardinals are oh so close. They know better than to start celebrating yet. To a man, the defending World Series champions kept their ...
Motte goes 2, makes Cardinals' wait worth it
Jason Motte had a lot more time than usual to get ready, learning the plan before the grounds crew took the tarp off the field. It was nice to get ...
Beltran leaves with strained knee, is day to day
Carlos Beltran's availability for Game 4 of the NL championship series was uncertain after the St. Louis Cardinals slugger left Wednesday's game with ...
Bochy rejects retaliation talk heading into Game 3
Giants manager Bruce Bochy expects Marco Scutaro to be in his lineup card for Game 3 of the NL championship series, two days after St. Louis slugger ...
Yankees' slump defies explanation
If there were a quick and easy solution, surely this bunch would have figured it out by now. Alex Rodriguez has over 600 home runs. Curtis Granderson ...
Slide sparks Giants past Cardinals to even NLCS
Marco Scutaro stayed steady behind second base, absorbing Matt Holliday's hard takeout slide and tossing the ball to first for a possible double play.
Giants beat Cardinals 7-1 in Game 2 to even NLCS
The sight of Marco Scutaro on the ground in pain after getting flattened by Matt Holliday's hard takeout was just the spark the San Francisco Giants ...
Beltran, Freese hit 2-run HRs, Cards beat Giants
The St. Louis Cardinals' unheralded bullpen is making quite a name for itself in October right along with proven postseason stars Carlos Beltran and ...
Cardinals, Giants each pulled off remarkable rally
As many times as he gets asked, Cardinals closer Jason Motte still has no perfect answer for how St. Louis found a way to win at Washington after ...
No-quit Cards come back to beat Nats 9-7 in Game 5
In the end, it made sense that Yadier Molina and David Freese would work those key walks, and that Daniel Descalso and Pete Kozma would come through ...
Cards score 4 in 9th, beat Nats 9-7, reach NLCS
Carlos Beltran and the never-give-up St. Louis Cardinals began their latest comeback celebration quietly, plucking cans of beer from a blue bin that ...
Before Werth's walkoff, a rousing speech for Nats
Hours before Jayson Werth's game-ending homer on a 13-pitch at-bat extended the Washington Nationals' surprising season, before a bullpen trio got ...
Werth's homer for Nats forces Game 5 against Cards
Joyous, bouncing teammates waiting to greet him at home, the red-clad crowd raucous as can be, Jayson Werth yanked off his red batting helmet with two ...
Carpenter pitches Cards past Nats 8-0 for 2-1 lead
Set aside the high-pressure task of postseason pitching that Chris Carpenter routinely masters for the St. Louis Cardinals and think about this: Even ...
Ailing LHP Garcia removed from Cardinals' roster
The St. Louis Cardinals removed Jaime Garcia from their NL division series roster Tuesday, a day after he lasted only two innings in his Game 2 start ...
Nationals rally past Cardinals in Game 1
Given zero wriggle room, Nationals reliever Ryan Mattheus had realistic expectations. Entering with the bases loaded, nobody out and the cleanup man ...
Disputed call nearly causes riot at wild-card game
Andrelton Simmons lifted a pop fly into shallow left field. Not a hard-hit ball, by any means, but at least 50 feet beyond the infield. St.