The drama drained from their final game of the regular season and little reason to continue playing through the rain, the Cardinals had one prevailing question to answer Sunday.
“What direction we point the plane,” manager Mike Shildt said.
The Cardinals concluded their season with 90 wins and a 3-2, storm-shortened loss to the Chicago Cubs in seven innings due to the slip-and-slide field conditions at Busch Stadium. Since Tuesday, the results of their games could not change their seed into the postseason as the National League’s wild card. It took until the final outs of games No.