PHILADELPHIA • The Cardinals’ series finale Sunday was yet another example of why major league baseball is the most unpredictable, the most impossible to define, of all pro sports.
Michael Wacha was pitching for the Cardinals, bearer of a 9-2 record and 2.48 earned run average. He last had won five days earlier. His Philadelphia Phillies opponent, making his major league debut, was 0-6 when brought up from Class AAA Lehigh Valley.
Furthermore, lefthander Adam Morgan, because of shoulder surgery that cost him all of 2014, hadn’t won a game since Aug. 6, 2013, a span of 684 days.