The rules of the hamburger phone are simple as initially codified during a charter flight to Chicago and just in time to make some history Thursday.
If a Cardinals player wants to predict a home run from a teammate, all he has to do is walk over to the hamburger phone acquired recently, dial that player’s jersey number, and watch. Each player gets one call per game, unless their chosen player reaches base or makes good on the prediction. The burger kept busy Thursday as the Cardinals hit four homers in one inning against the Dodgers, five by the end of the fourth, and Willson Contreras and Nolan Gorman added two more in the eighth inning for a club record seven homers at Busch Stadium III.