“If you don’t take yourself back and think about what you’ve been doing and where you’re going, you’re never going to come back,” Hudson said. “That’s where I had to go and have that mental talk with myself and say, ‘Hey, is this what we’re going to do? How do I get, personally, to my best?’”
His return to the Cardinals on Saturday headed him in the right direction.
With a career-best eight innings and a swift, peppy pace to his performance in Game 1 of the doubleheader, Hudson threw himself into the mix for starts and a potential postseason role.