ST. LOUIS -- Adam Wainwright stopped his warm-up pitches Monday afternoon at Busch Stadium, turned and looked up at the scoreboard above his head, and it suddenly hit him.
Wainwright, who was about to start the St. Louis Cardinals' home opener, felt the stinging in his eyes and started weeping. He kept watching, the tears kept falling, and pitching on this day could wait.
"It's as choked up as I've ever been on a baseball field," Wainwright said. "I wasn't expecting to do that. It's like it doesn't seem real until it is."
A poignant, moving tribute to Oscar Taveras was being shown on the scoreboard, with an entire stadium and its record crowd of 47,875 watching in silence.