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There are worse things than a muggy Saturday in St Louis. If you have some time, I’ll think of something. The Cubs and Cardinals played baseball there Saturday. Miles Mikolas bored the Cubs’ bats to death but a Rafael Ortega home run made things interesting for an inning.