Intro

The Cardinals (55-55) travel to the West Coast to take on the Padres (60-49), after recently splitting 4 games with them in St. Louis. This will be a very different team, though, just a week later. Roster turn-over and the realization that the season is over appears to have deflated this team.

The lede picture explained ... last week, I took two grandchildren to a day game at Coors Field. The game had a similar dispirited, getaway game feel as Wednesday nights dud against Miami did. But the kids enjoyed it. My 5-year-old grandson stayed the whole nine, studying what was going on. I bought him a bat, which is now his treasure. When we got home, in was thunder and lightening time, so he drew a ball field in the garage, with chalk, and we played our first baseball game inside. A baseb

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