After three weeks, 16 games, and seven home runs for the Cardinals’ Triple-A affiliate, Bader returned to the big-league starting lineup Tuesday for the first time since late July feeling less like the .195 batting average that awaited him and more like, well, himself. On the first pitch of Tuesday’s game he made a lunging catch in center field, and in his first at-bat he cracked a standup triple off the left-field wall. He walked in his next plate appearance, again in the sixth with the bases loaded to tie the game at 2-2, and once more in the seventh.
Center of attention: After a swing through Memphis, Bader eager to 'unleash'
