LOS ANGELES — There’s enough bad news about pitching. Elbows fail. Shoulders fail. Fastballs get old and weary. Hitters find new ways. It’s all pretty fragile out there, even for the good ones.
So let’s take a moment to acknowledge when it goes right, even for a couple months, in a place such as St. Louis, which lost 22-year-old Alex Reyes to Tommy John surgery before any of it even began.
First off, the Cardinals are one of just four teams (the Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees are the others) to reach the fourth week of May with the same five starters.