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Inside the Cardinals' Treacherous Game of Catch-up

Maybe someday the St. Louis Cardinals will laugh about the 2020 season the way fraternity brothers do their college days.

Remember the time pitchers quarantined in hotel rooms kept their arms loose by throwing into a mattress? Or how about the week eight players made their major league debuts, including the pitcher who gave up four straight home runs in his first inning? And then there was the time the Cardinals made like a youth travel ball team and drove 41 rental cars almost 300 miles to play eight games in six days against the Cubs—BYO juice boxes and orange slices.