Cardinals rookie Tommy Pham, who had about the best July 4 weekend anybody could have, played like a 10-year veteran. In essence, he is.
Pham, who signed in 2006 and never hit above .232 in his first four years of professional baseball nor got above Class A, has become the flavor of the month at Busch Stadium. He may be the most talked-about young Cardinal who wasn’t being talked about that much since Bo Hart more than a decade ago.
In his second big-league start Saturday, Pham doubled in the sixth inning and scored the first of two Cardinals runs.