Welcome to a brand-new Best Podcast in Baseball. St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer and host Derrick Goold is joined this week by colleague, sports columnist, and instant offense Jeff Gordon. They discuss the Cardinals’ “relentless bunch” – their league-leading on-base machine lineup and their leader, hitting coach Brant Brown. There’s even a quiz on his catchphrases. The two writers look at the Cardinals shift to a six-man rotation for the coming week. And then they dive into the numbers on attendance in the early series of the season, ticket sales, and whether the dip in attendance reflects exactly the drop in payroll. Will the assertive start by the lineup and this team’s style of play be enough to bring fans to Busch Stadium, or Goold asks, is there something else afoot hear? The Cardinals have advertised a “transition” year, so is coming to the ballpark early in the season less fun because the team is more likely to change? Being there to watch a team in April that will be dismantled by August can be a hard sell.
The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a weekly production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.
The Cardinals lefty, who makes his fourth start of the season Saturday vs. Mets, has shifted his mentality on winning early counts, and it's opened up his game.
A tie game the Cardinals created with a solo homer in the top of the ninth inning, disappeared just as quickly into the New York night in the bottom of the ninth.
Betting the Mets were not going to use two of their late-game lockdown relievers, the Cardinals felt they could take advantage before it unraveled into 5-4 loss.
Kodai Senga and the New York Mets unplugged the Cardinals for nine innings Saturday and sent them to their eighth loss in their first nine road games of the season.
Veteran starter spoke to manager Oliver Marmol following Friday’s game about how to earn back those late innings that he has long seen as defining his job.
Matthew Liberatore traces his confidence to an outing against Mets in 2024 and used it to get into the 7th Saturday, but offense was schooled again by New York's starter.
The Cardinals and Mets continue their series Saturday at 3:05 p.m. (St. Louis time) in the third of four in Queens. The game airs on Channel 2 and Fox nationally.
