Isn’t it funny how as soon as the Cardinals’ front office finally broke down and waved the white flag on the season, the team began playing its best baseball of the year? St. Louis entered tonight’s game against the Cubs in the middle of the longest active winning streak in the National League — five games.
Some people view this series as an inflection point — if the Cardinals win it, maybe they can make a little run at the division. But others have seen enough, and know that this team simply is not built well enough to win the number of games down the stretch needed to sneak into the playoffs, regardless of how well the Cardinals play at Wrigley this weekend.