ST. LOUIS -- The battery that has started the most games together in Cardinals history was the one that started Thursday's home opener. No tandem tops Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina, who started their 238rd game together, and perhaps their last in a home opener.
But Bob Gibson and Tim McCarver follow the current Cardinals duo, with 197 games as a unit. And minutes before Wainwright threw his warmups to Molina, Gibson and McCarver reunited on the field at Busch Stadium.
Gibson's first pitch to McCarver served as the capper to the Cardinals' home-opener festivities, as well as a commemoration of Gibson's historic 1968 season.