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The Cardinals hope that veteran reliever Scott Linebrink will be able to start pitching off a mound within the week.

Romero pitched in 11 games for the Cardinals and managed to complete eight innings or work.

Carlos Beltran hit his NL-leading 14th home run and the Cardinals beat up on former St.

It's easy to look at the Cardinals' woeful May record and blame injuries to key offensive players Lance Berkman, Allen Craig, Carlos Beltran and Jon Jay for the sudden downturn in the club's fortunes.

For a manager with no experience at any level, Mike Matheny was making the job of replacing a future Hall of Famer look easy.

Perennial prospect Tyler Greene is finally getting a full shot with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners chased Texas' Yu Darvish after just four innings in his shortest start of the season, and the Mariners rolled to their fourth straight win in a 6-1 victory over the Rangers on... Matt Treanor, Andre Ethier and James Loney homered to power Chris Capuano to his sixth victory, and the Los Angeles Dodgers won ... (more)

Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman has been arrested for speeding and driving with a suspended license in central Ohio, only hours after he got his first save of the season in New York.

Garcia, who put together clearly the best performance by a Cardinals starter in the last 11 days and has also dominated the San Diego in the past, will get the ball for Monday night's series opener against the visiting Padres .

It's the one about the time his father was in the on-deck circle at Dodger Stadium when Jack Clark hit a go-ahead three-run homer in Game 6 of the 1985 NL Championship Series to help the St.

Scott Van Slyke hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning on Sunday and the Dodgers defeated the Cardinals, 6-5, to complete a three-game sweep.

Despite losing manager Don Mattingly to a third-inning ejection, second baseman Mark Ellis to a seventh-inning leg injury and two leads, the Dodgers pulled out a 6-5 win over the Cardinals on Friday night on A.J. Ellis' bases-loaded walk-off walk in the ninth.

Allen Craig was seemingly establishing himself as the big bat in the middle of the St.

It's still early in the season, but it's starting to become clear where some of the holes in the St.

St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Carlos Beltran blows a bubble in the dugout in the eighth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

The St Louis Cardinals coaching staff watches St Louis Cardinals' starting pitcher Jaime Garcia throw pitches after he thought he may had injured himself during their game against the San Francisco Giants in the seventh inning at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif.

Jaime Garcia threw 7 1/3 innings of one- run ball and the St. Louis Cardinals downed the San Francisco Giants, 4-1, in the opener of a two-game series on Wednesday.

The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2012 , an annual "must buy" for all baseball fans, is now shipping.

With the unconditional release Monday of J.C. Romero, the St. Louis Cardinals have just one left-hander in their bullpen: Marc Rzepczynski.

Man, that happens every time I try to post the picture I have to go along with Eduardo Sanchez's nickname.