The St. Louis Cardinals are heading back to the playoffs for the second consecutive year.
One of the National League's marquee teams clinched its 14th postseason berth since 2000 on Sunday with a victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
The 2020 season has thrown just about all it can at the Cardinals.
Only five games into a 60-game season, St. Louis faced an outbreak of COVID-19 in the clubhouse that caused the team's next 16 games to be postponed. The Cardinals went from July 30 to August 14 without any baseball activities, ultimately renting cars to make a safe trip to Chicago to resume their season against the White Sox.