Tonight, Jack Flaherty will take the mound for the Cardinals in Washington, attempting to pull the club back from the brink. The Redbirds currently face a 2-0 deficit, as the Nationals took both of the first two games of the series, right here in St. Louis. Going down 2-0 is bad enough; going down 2-0 when you had home field advantage is something else entirely.
So how did we get here? Well, there have been things that have gone wrong, for sure. There has been plenty of consternation expressed with the way Mike Shildt has managed the series, and that’s fair.