With the wind gusting and their season listing last week at Wrigley Field, the Cardinals did something they had not in almost seven months of run-starved baseball.
In Game 3 of a National League division series, the Cardinals scored six runs — four of them off a pitcher who hadn’t allowed that much in the previous month — and the next day followed with four more runs.
The Cardinals had scored 10 total runs in consecutive games and lost them both, and particularly unusual was losing after scoring six runs. Before falling to the Chicago Cubs 8-6, the Cardinals had been 38-0 in 2015 with six or more runs.