St. Louis Cardinals Season Ends in San Francisco

The Giants beat the Cardinals 9-0 in Game 7 to end the Redbirds' 2012 season.

There will be no World Series in St. Louis this season.  There will be no parade down Market Street, no 12th world championship and no rematch of the 2006 Fall Classic. Monday night in San Francisco the Cardinals hopes of a repeat of 2011 were ended at the hands of the Giants.  Just like in 1996, the Cardinals, with a new manager, had a 3-1 lead in the National League Championship series. And, just like in '96, the Cards failed to get win No. 4, losing in Game 7 in a blowout.  The Cardinals were done in by a series of miscues and the inability to get a big basehit. But, credit the San Francisco, the Giants had to play perfect to come back and did just that.  The loss in California closes the book on an interesting season for the Cardinals…

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MLB Playoffs: What Time Is Tonight's St. Louis Cardinals-San Francisco Giants Game?

Get the full schedule on the National League Championship Series and see the results from the first four games.

Tonight, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Lance Lynn takes on the San Francisco Giants Barry Zito when the National League Championship Series continues in Busch Stadium at 7:05 p.m. With Thursday's 8-3 win, the Redbirds lead the series 3-1 and could clinch the National League pennant with a win tonight. The broadcast airs on FOX2, featuring play-by-play with Joe Buck, analysis from Tim McCarver, along with field reporters Erin Andrews and Ken Rosenthal. Temperatures should be in the low 50s starting to dip into the mid-40s, with a slight chance of showers. The Cardinals took a two-game lead on Thursday, setting National League Championship Series at 3-1. The winner of the Cards-Giants series faces the Detroit Tigers in the World Series after …

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Is David Freese an MLB All-Star?

The third baseman sent the St. Louis Cardinals to Game 7 of the World Series with his clutch performance, but he hasn't secured a spot on the National League's All-Star Game roster yet. Fans can still vote him in.

Why doesn’t the World Series MVP have a spot on the All-Star team yet? David Freese rescued the St. Louis Cardinals when they were one strike away from losing the World Series twice, and started this season with 13 home runs. Aside from baseball, he created his own baseball camp, suffered through an obnoxious interview at Six Flags St. Louis and made this 7-year old’s dream come true. Does that sound like an All-Star to you? Vote here or text N2 to 89269 to cast your ballot for Freese, who is competing against Bryce Harper (Washington Nationals), Michael Bourn (Atlanta Braves) and Aaron Hill (Arizona Diamondbacks). Freese was in the running against favorite Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones, when Major League Baseball announced Jones would …

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Gregg Palermo

12:58 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012

What's interesting here is the time Bryce Harper lost in the race when he did the cool thing and told people to vote for Chipper Jones when Jones was still in the running as a last candidate, in what is his final season. Hard to pinpoint how many votes Harper lost between Sunday and Tuesday. Also saw that Bradley Beal was already getting into the DC spirit by using his twitter account to give …   more ›

The Virtual Life

Get in the Game: Twitter Allows Fans in Clayton and Richmond Heights to Play Ball

We can't all make it to Busch Stadium to cheer on the St. Louis Cardinals in the home stretch. That's where your social networks come into play.

I'll say it right off the bat: I am not a big sports fan. Yes, I feel a sense of satisfaction when the Cardinals win, especially in the World Series. I get slightly more excited (and a bit smug) when my alma mater, Michigan State University, beats the University of Michigan in any sport. I am not among those who worship at the altar of sports. I am, though, an enthusiatic adherent of the religion of Twitter when it comes to engaging in real-time conversation. And, I have been intrigued by the ways in which sports fans use Twitter to interact during major sporting events. Twitter and the big games In July, an ESPN.com article reported the final moments of the face-off between the American and Japanese women soccer teams "saw Twitter …

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Free Cardinals Tickets Part of Thursday Chamber Giveaway

The giveaway for the Game 2 tickets will happen at Carrollton Bank in Clayton.

Attendees of a World Series happy hour and Clayton Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting will have the opportunity to win two tickets to Thursday's St. Louis Cardinals game. Any member of the public is eligible to win. The event runs from 4 to 6 p.m. at Carrollton Bank, 7911 Forsyth Blvd. Other World Series memorabilia will be offered as prizes. Free parking is available in the adjoining garage. More information is available by calling 314-863-8844.

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World Series 2011

Ritz-Carlton Martinis Honor St. Louis Cardinals, World Series

The specialty drinks and ballpark food will be available at the Clayton hotel through the end of the baseball season.

Ballpark food and specialty martinis will be available at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis in Clayton for the next week and a half in honor of the Cardinals' trip to the World Series. "We were excited for the city and the people," said Jason Ramshaw, one of two food and beverage managers at the hotel. Food offerings will include handmade ballpark soft pretzels with spicy mustard; chicken quesadillas with pico de gallo, cilantro sour cream, pickled onions and guacamole; and beef sliders with duck-fat french fries. Ramshaw named the new martinis such as Carpenter's Nail, which features Johnnie Walker Black Label, a hint of Drambuie and a twist of lemon. Also on the menu is Happy Flight, which is three bottles of Schlafly beer—pale ale, …

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Jean Whitney

1:22 pm on Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Hey, I like this idea! Go Carpenter's Nail!   more ›

Cardinals Fans Beware: Another Consumer Alert from the Better Business Bureau

The St. Louis BBB is warning fans who are traveling to Texas for the World Series about suspicious hotel offers.

On Monday, the St. Louis Better Business Bureau warned Cardinal nation about World Series ticket scams. Tuesday came an alert about hotel ads targetting fans who may be scrambling to find accommodations in the Dallas area. The BBB said the ads are cropping up on Craigslist. The alert A release from the BBB reads in part: Several ads for World Series hotel packages on a classified ad site claimed to offer tickets for a Rams-Cowboys game along with the hotel, a tip-off that the person who placed the ad may not be familiar with the teams in the World Series, the Cardinals and the Texas Rangers. Some ads are full of misspellings, which also can be a characteristic of fraudulent ads. “Sports fans may be anxious to get a hotel room near the …

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