07.14.2009 5:43 pm
By Dan O’Neill and Elizabethe Holland
Baseball fans lined downtown streets – in some places, a dozen or so deep – to get a gander at stars from the National and American leagues as they made their way along the red-carpet…

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07.01.2009 3:01 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — The ever-expanding, always-changing and sometimes-evolving Major League Baseball All-Star Game powers invoked their carte blanche right to do what they want with the roster. The leagues announced today that they will add a spot to each roster,…

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05.15.2009 9:30 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Friday night’s game between the Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers was called at 9:19 p.m., leaving starting pitchers Kyle Lohse and Yovani Gallardo all sweated up with nowhere to go.
Lohse pitched two scoreless innings but suffered the latest complication to his…

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04.25.2009 5:15 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — Even with wall-to-wall-to-wall-to-wall coverage of the NFL Draft permeating every membrane of sports media today, the St. Louis Cardinals were able to pack ‘em in at Busch Stadium this afternoon for the first Saturday visit of the…

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04.19.2009 6:09 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
CHICAGO — Sunday night’s rainout between the Cardinals and Chicago Cubs has been rescheduled as part of a day-night doubleheader on Sunday July 12, the final day before the All-Star break. Sunday’s postponed game will be played at 12:05 p.m.…

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03.31.2009 11:10 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What has been obvious became official this morning when St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa announced that his Opening Day starter will be Adam Wainwright.
The righthander is set to make his final exhibition start today…

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03.31.2009 8:04 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
JUPITER, Fla. — Having established the relievers who are going makeup the bullpen to start the season at Busch Stadium, the St. Louis Cardinals will also now give their starting catcher, Yadier Molina, a chance to work with those pitchers.
Molina…

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03.23.2009 4:29 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
JUPITER, Fla. — After breezing through five innings against Washington with six strikeouts and only the slightest blip of trouble, St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter was asked Monday if he had stuff that he would be confident taking into…

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03.18.2009 11:17 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
JUPITER, Fla. — The St. Louis Cardinals announced this morning that Ballpark Village — currently the vacant grassy field located adjacent to the new downtown ballpark, Busch Stadium — will have something beyond its fenced-in acreage when the All-Star Game…

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01.09.2009 5:16 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As of Saturday, it’s 35 days until pitchers and catchers report. You seem pretty satisfied with the catching, but not the pitching.
Q: I am a loyal Cardinals fan down here in North Carolina where I’m in graduate school for chemistry. First…

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