The perennially contending Cardinals and the recent-years struggling Phillies have been two of baseball’s biggest stories here in the early going of the 2016 MLB season, the Phils for good reasons, the Cards – not so much.
Saint Louis has now lost four straight games to drop a game below the .500 mark in an increasingly tough NL Central Division. They are already six games behind the arch-rival Chicago Cubs, and are closer to fourth place than second at this point.
The Cards have been led thus far in the 2016 season by a pair of talented 25-year old youngsters in right fielder Stephen Piscotty and shortstop Aledmys Diaz.