Today is an offday for the Cardinals so there will be no Cardinals baseball game this evening. It is a coincidence, but a fitting one that they will not play today. See, today, August 12, is the anniversary of the MLB work stoppage in 1994.
stlcardsfan4 details it very well in his article posted this morning A timeline of the 1994 baseball strike. It is a great refresher on all the shady deals that led up to the work stoppage that ultimately led to the season ending on August 11, 1994. There was no pennant winner.