PITTSBURGH — The Cardinals had lost nine of 10 Saturday road games wearing the so-called “Victory Blue” uniforms made popular by the 1982 World Series champion club. But Adam Wainwright hadn’t pitched in any of those games — he started and lost on the Saturday in Mexico when the Cardinals hadn’t packed the blues — so he did not feel any the stigma attached to the garb.
Everyone who had talked about burning them probably had a little different slant, too, after Saturday night’s game. Wainwright held the Pittsburgh Pirates to one run over seven innings and doubled to start a four-run third as the Cardinals beat the Pirates for the seventh time in eight meetings at PNC Park, 10-1.