Hit batter, error, walks, misplays are costly; Padres will have to win next two games to avoid losing record on road trip

The Cardinals have bounced back from a bad road trip in a big way, returning home to win two big games against the Padres and move to within a game and a half of the final Wild Card spot. Tonight, Miles Mikolas took the ball and gave the Cardinals five scoreless innings before turning things over to Steven Matz for the next inning.

The last time the Cardinals won consecutive games before Friday night, it was June 29 and St. Louis sat a season-best nine games over .500, filled with confidence. An MLB-worst 5-13 stretch followed f

The Cardinals made franchise history they haven't achieved in 82 years following their shutout win over the Padres on Friday.

The San Diego Padres could not get much going with the bats as they lose to St. Louis, 3-0. The Padres managed 11 hits in the game, but could

Colorado blanked the Cardinals, 6-0, on Wednesday afternoon at Coors Field in the team’s first shutout since May 15, 2024, when the Rockies beat the Padres, 8-0, in San Diego. The 220-game drought was the longest of baseball’s modern era, supplanting a 199-game run without a shutout by the St. Louis Browns in 1939.

A year later, the Padres find themselves in slightly better standing. They are 55-49, one game ahead of their 54-50 record last July 24. They are also entering dangerous territory. The wins and losses tell a story of year-over-year improvement. The recent trend lines do not.

The benches cleared in a Cardinals-Padres game for the second straight night Saturday as St. Louis’ Willson Contreras and San Diego’s Manny Machado each got hit twice by pitches