ST. LOUIS -- Through one lens, the Cardinals don't qualify as baseball's most all-or-nothing offense. Not even close. St. Louis scored 40 percent of its runs via the home run over the season's first two months, putting them in the middle of the pack in the sport's homer-happy landscape.
But through another, they've devolved into one of the Majors' most power-reliant teams. When they homer in a game, the Cardinals are the National League's second most successful club. But when they don't, they morph into one of the NL's worst, at the mercy of an erratic offense that tends to either score in bunches or not very much at all.