Not that they were concerned about the various possibilities, but the Cardinals took the most direct route available to baseball’s postseason Sunday at Busch Stadium. They won their game.
With Harrison Bader tripling to ignite a four-run third inning and hitting a 425-foot homer into Big Mac Land in the fourth, the Cardinals jumped on the Milwaukee Brewers early as they posted a 5-2 victory in the final game of the regular season.
Their next destination, as the second-place team in the National League Central Division, will not be to Detroit for a makeup game or two on Monday.