Molina earns
another Platinum Glove award!
Heyward earns Wilson Defensive Player award!
Molina, Heyward earn Gold Glove awards!
Cardinals rookie Stephen
Piscotty homered
for the second straight game and the third time in the
NLDS. In doing so, he became the only rookie in Major
League history to homer in three of his first four
career postseason games.
Matt
Carpenter became
the third Cardinals player to hit a leadoff homer in the
postseason, joining Lou Brock (1968 World Series) and
Fernando Vina (2000 NLDS). Carpenter now has five homers
and nine RBIs over his past 11 playoff games. All have
come out of the top spot in the order. Only six players
in history have produced more postseason leadoff homers
over their careers.
Tommy
Pham joined an exclusive
group by
crushing a pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning. By
doing so, he became just the third player all time --
and the first since John Lowenstein in the 1979 ALCS --
to hit a pinch-hit homer in his first career postseason
game. The only other player to do so was Dusty Rhodes in
the 1954 World Series.
With Pham's homer, the Cardinals are now responsible for
three of the four postseason pinch-hit homers since
2013. Along with Pham's eighth-inning blast on Friday, Shane
Robinson hit
a pinch-hit homer in Game 4 of the 2013 NLCS, and Oscar
Taveras added
one in Game 2 of the 2014 NLCS. The only other
postseason pinch-hit home run across the Majors in that
span came from Michael
Morse,
who hit it for the Giants -- against the Cardinals -- in
Game 5 of last year's NLCS.
With the win
in game 1, the Cardinals improved to 9-4 in NLDS
openers all-time. Each of those previous eight times
they won Game 1, they went on to win the series.
Cubs/Cards moments
Until October 2015, the Cards hadn't had a losing month since June
of 2012! That's 39 consecutive months of winning basebal!
Wow!
Mike Matheny is the only manager in
baseball history to lead his team to the post season in each of his
first four full seasons.
Cards took control of first place in the
NL Central on April 17th and never relinquished it!
Grichuk hits 17 home runs and Matt
Carpenter hits 28!
Rosenthal sets a franchise record of 48
saves!
I don't know too many other clubs that
could have withstood all the injuries the Cards did this season and
still come out on top! (100 wins too!) Just to recap... Adam Wainwright
(most of the season), Yadier Molina
(late September), Randall Grichuk (two
stints on the DL), Matt Holliday (two
stints on the DL), Matt Adams (most of the
season), Jordan Walden (most of
the season), Matt Belisle (most of
the season), Lance Lynn, John Jay, Jaime Garcia.
The Cards had 25 come from behind wins in
the first half of the season.
At one point in the season (early) Jaime
Garcia
had
seven consecutive quality starts and a 1.69 ERA.
At the break, Carlos Martinez
is 9-3, and the Cardinals are 14-3 in his starts.
Since the turn of the 20th century, this is the Cardinals'
second-best record 81 games (53-28) The best was in 1944.
(58-23)
Matt Holliday reached base in 45 straight games to open the season —
both a National League and Cardinals franchise record.
Fans vote Stan Musial, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson and Rogers Hornsby as
the Cardinals "Franchise Four"
5 consecutive years in the postseason!!!
One tough Dominican
Superteam!
Cards Hall of Fame - Simmons
Life without Oscar
Cards are the most profitable MLB team
Cards off to their best start in modern franchise history (20-6)!
Carpenter earns player
of the week
honors!
Yadier Molina made is 11th consecutive opening day
start, extending his own record for most opening day starts by a Cardinals
catcher
Jhonny Peralta starts the first back-to-back opening
days since David Eckstein (2005-2007)
2015 
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