The Phillies will make their first postseason appearance since 2011 on Friday when they open up the Wild Card Series in St. Louis.
They won’t be favored. Anything is possible in a three-game series, and the Cardinals are solid but no world-beaters, but the Phillies will still need to put together a complete weekend of baseball to exact their 2011 NLDS revenge.
Few of them have much postseason history to draw upon when predicting who the top contributors might be. Instead, let’s look at some players who carry a history of dominance against the Cardinals or at Busch Stadium specifically — as well as some players whose reversals of historical trends would bode well for the Phillies in the Midwest.