BOSTON – Whatever opportunities the Cardinals created or, in several innings, had thrown at them Sunday ended in a fitting way for a chilly, gusty day at Fenway Park.
They went down swinging.
Noble in the ring, but worth nothing on the field if they don’t connect.
The Cardinals, one of the hardest teams to whiff in this age of skyrocketing rates, struck out 13 times by the end of the eighth inning Sunday. They left at least one runner on base in each of the first five innings, four of those runners in scoring position.