ST. LOUIS — When it came to the pitchers who had been among the most consistent, most steady and, at times, most dominant in the National League for the past two seasons, St. Louis Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright lacked the…

ST. LOUIS — Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter is the Major League Baseball players’ choice as the National League Comeback Player of the Year — an award that he has won twice because of a career complicated by injuries.

Carpenter lost most…

Adam Wainwright turned over a 2-1 lead to the Cardinals bullpen for the ninth after allowing just one run on three hits in eight innings only to see the Dodgers win it with two outs, thanks in part to a…

Leave it to someone to walk through the press box trying to start a no-hit pool for Adam Wainwright.

Just seconds later it seemed Andre Ethier was hitting a line drive over the left-center fence for the Dodgers’ first hit of…

Tony La Russa was asked if he’d ever had a better feeling going into the postseason than he did this year with Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright starting the first two games:

“I’ve never had a better one,” the manager said.…

What was billed as an optional for-our-eyes only workout continues at Busch Stadium this afternoon almost two hours after the first pitchers popped from the first-base dugout. Everyone on the postseason travel squad is in attendance, logical since the team charter…

DENVER — First he had to have the right tool. A big tub of ice-cold water, sprinkled liberally with ice cubes, ones still left floating from the stuff they packed the champagne. Second, he had to have a hiding place.…

ST. LOUIS — Manager Tony La Russa said the club plans to have limited promotions Tuesday, the first day that major-league clubs can expand their rosters beyond the 25-man limit. Third baseman Troy Glaus will be among the first arrivals,…

ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright slogged through the sixth inning this afternoon to push his streak of consecutive starts with at least six innings pitched to 26. The St. Louis Cardinals righthander had to escape his hardest inning yet of…

ST. LOUIS — There was a bouquet of flowers waiting for Adam Wainwright in his locker and a box full of bobbleheads in his likeness, but it was what he forgot that first flummoxed Wainwright.

He told his fellow starters that…