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Hummel: Triples continue to decline, and Cardinals are about to hit historic low

When Cardinals Hall of Famer Stan Musial was walking with a cane and limping later in his grand life, which ended when he was 92 years old, he would explain his leg issues with his typical giggle, saying, “Too many triples. Hee! Hee! Hee!”

At the height of their Astroturf, speed-burning era in 1985, the Cardinals, besides stealing 314 bases, had 59 triples to lead the National League. Eighteen of those triples were by current coach Willie McGee.

The 2017 Toronto Blue Jays hold the big-league record at five triples but no National League team has ever had fewer than 10 triples in a season, with Cincinnati the lowest at 12 in 2006 and the Cardinals at 13 the next year, matched by Washington in 2015.