CINCINNATI — The St. Louis Cardinals are below .500 at this juncture of the season for the first time since 2007.
Heading into a Wednesday game against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park, manager Mike Matheny’s club has dropped five straight and 15 of its past 20 games. At times, they have played very un-Cardinal-like baseball with missed cutoff men, baserunning mishaps, defensive miscues and a lack of timely hitting.
St. Louis hasn’t had issues getting leads but has struggled to maintain them.
“It’s been a tough nut to crack in the sense that we’ve been in a lot of games, competitive, finding different ways not to cross the finish line, which is frustrating,” Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said Monday.