Since he last pitched on Aug. 26, and not very long at 3 2/3 innings in a game that “hurt his soul,” Adam Wainwright had been watching a bunch of feel-good videos from better times in the past decade, as culled by Cardinals video technicians Chad Blair and Ben Bultmann. The 38-year-old righthander wanted to see what he was doing right when he was at the top of his game.
Having those images as a reference point, Wainwright was near the top of his 2019 game Monday at Busch Stadium, blanking the San Francisco Giants on four hits and walking no one in the Cardinals’ 3-1 victory, their fourth in five games played over 51 hours 44 minutes this holiday weekend.