Not many people thought the St. Louis Cardinals would be in this spot after having a .500 record going into the All-Star Break. People might’ve believed you if you said the team would make the playoffs. Then you’d lose some people if you said they’d win the division, then you’d lose even more if you said they would push the Atlanta Braves to a Game 5 winner-take-all climax.
The path the Cardinals have taken to get to this point is long and windy but after Yadier Molina‘s late-game heroics on Monday, they are dead even in the series.