What you need to know: For much of the day it looked like the Cardinals were in control of this game and going to take the opening series of 2017 from the Cubs. Fortunately for Chicago, Kyle Schwarber saved the day by hitting a three run home run off of new Cardinal Brent Cecil in the […]
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Game 2 Recap: Cubs 2 Cardinals 1
What you need to know: The elite Cubs defense from 2016 has not gone anywhere. Kris Bryant made a couple of really nice plays at third. Javy Baez did his thing at second base (including making a very nice game-ending play), and Jason Heyward was his usual self back in right field. But the play of the […]
Opening Day Recap: Cardinals 4, Cubs 3
The first 2016 Cubs game that I had the honor of recapping altered the course of the Cubs’ season dramatically: Kyle Schwarber went down with a torn ACL, and I attempted to imbue the moment and its consequences with dramatic, biblical weight. From that point on, there was little that could slow the Cubs on […]
Division Preview: The St. Louis Cardinals
“Do not go gentle into that good night…rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas The triple digit win total of just two seasons ago must feel very, very far away right now. Ousted from the postseason by their arch-nemesis in one season, and then missing October baseball altogether the next must […]
Series Preview: Cubs vs Cardinals, September 23-25
The search for meaning in the meaningless. It is the human condition and the fate that observers of this Cubs team have found themselves in for weeks. Now the Cubs playing a meaningless final series against the Cardinals in September is hardly unfamiliar, but the only drama for the Cubs being the chance to win […]
Series Preview: Cubs vs Cardinals, September 12-14
The Cubs and Cardinals have played several drama-filled and meaningful September series in recent memory. The Cubs chasing a playoff spot last year took 2 of 3 from the Cardinals twice in September. Any mention of important September series between these two teams must include the 5 game series to the start the month in […]
Game 114 Recap: Cubs 13 Cardinals 2
I suppose that if there are statement losses, then this must have been a very big statement win. Last night’s game ended on a bit of a controversial note with the fourth ball that walked in the winning run, and all of that came after the pitch that probably ended Matt Holliday’s season. So today felt […]
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Cardinals, August 11-14
Near the end of June, and a couple of weeks before the All-Star break, the Cardinals swept the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Cubs were flailing in the deep waters then, at the nadir of their 2016 season; they subsequently dropped series versus the Reds, Mets, and Pirates, plus a makeup game versus the Braves. […]
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Cardinals, June 20-22
As extraordinary as it might have seemed in this offseason that was so pregnant with expectation for a competitive National League Central race, the Cubs enter this three-game, mid-June set with the Cardinals at Wrigley a stunning 12.5 games ahead of the Redbirds in the Central, and with an even-more-imposing 15 game lead on the reeling Pirates, who’ve […]
Game 45 Recap: Cubs 9 Cardinals 8
In a divisional rivalry that has been rife with intrigue, particularly since last fall, the last game of this week’s series was bound not to go out with a whimper. This afternoon’s dogfight between the Cubs and Cardinals looked a lot more like what we might expect between these two teams later in the season. Not […]