SAN FRANCISCO • The precise moment Friday night caved in on the Cardinals may be as difficult and debatable to identify as it will eventually be to determine the same thing if this season does.
In either case, it could be the defense, ragged all year.
Or it could have been the pitching that didn’t staunch the trouble.
In an apparent attempt to spur the urgency that the Cardinals need to right their season, catcher Yadier Molina attempted what would have been an inning-altering play. It was. Just not the way he intended. Molina’s throw to second on a bunt sailed high and into an error.