The Cardinals entered play today on pace for 95 losses, a shocking outlier year for a storied organization that claims a distant second place in all-time World Series titles. The Yankees came in hoping to take a series from the struggling club, but it didn’t start out well in today’s doubleheader opener. The Cardinals lit up Yankee pitching to take a commanding 11-0 lead by the end of the fifth, and after some garbage-time runs and two separate rain delays in the seventh and eighth, St. Louis won this one at last, 11-4.
Two relative vets took the mound today in Luis Severino and Jack Flaherty, and they started strong by trading zeroes for the first two innings.