St. Louis Cardinals News

Troy Glaus hit his first home run with St. Louis and Albert Pujols also connected to lead the Cardinals to a 5-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Sunday. Glaus, who was acquired in an offseason trade that sent Scott Rolen to Toronto, entered the game leading the major leagues with the most RBIs without [...]

Adam Wainwright threw more than 125 pitches Saturday, and these days that merits a discussion about whether it’s too many.

Skip Schumaker sat and waited for a ball over the plate. When the right pitch finally came from Houston reliever Wesley Wright in the ninth inning Saturday, the Cardinals’ left fielder simply put it in play. Schumaker’s base hit to left scored pinch-runner Cesar Izturis with the winning run, allowing St.

Skip Schumaker singled to left to score pinch-runner Cesar Izturis in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday, giving the St. Louis Cardinals a 4-3 victory that snapped the Houston Astros’ six-game winning streak. Schumaker singled off Wesley Wright, who relieved Dave Borkowski (0-1) after Borkowski walked leadoff batter Brian Barton to start the ninth.

Carlos Lee’s home run capped a three-run rally off Jason Isringhausen in the ninth inning, helping the Houston Astros beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 on Friday night for their sixth straight victory. Miguel Tejada had an RBI triple and Lance Berkman’s sacrifice fly for the second out tied it before Lee hammered a first-pitch [...]

Troy Glaus left the St. Louis Cardinals’ game Friday night against Houston because of blurry vision after striking out in both at-bats. Glaus took a called third strike from the Astros’ Shawn Chacon with the bases loaded for the second out of the first inning and struck out swinging with the bases loaded to end [...]

St. Louis Cardinals left-hander Mark Mulder, recovering from shoulder surgery, allowed four runs in five innings in his third rehabilitation start on Friday night. Pitching for Double-A Springfield, Mulder gave up three runs on two hits and three walks in the first inning before finding his rhythm. He allowed six hits overall, including a home [...]

Cardinals shortstop Cesar Izturis missed his third straight start on Friday night with a bruised forearm, and it was unclear when he would return to the lineup. Izturis was hit by a pitch thrown by the Brewers’ Eric Gagne on Tuesday. The 28-year-old took fielding and batting practice before the game, but Brendan Ryan started [...]

Brian Barton’s two-run single in the fifth inning gave St. Louis the lead on its first hit off erratic Pittsburgh starter Tom Gorzelanny, and the Cardinals went on beat the Pirates 6-2 behind Joel Pineiro’s seven effective innings Thursday night. The Cardinals avoided their first three-game losing streak of the season, putting nine runners on [...]

For a mere $15.1 million in mid-January, you could have had a starting rotation of Livan Hernandez, Kyle Lohse, Brett Tomko, Shawn Chacon and Odalis Perez. Not too shabby.