St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Aug 27, 2020
Pitching solid at one-third mark of season
St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Dakota Hudson (43) releases the ball during the first inning of a baseball game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. The game is number seven out of 12 straight home games for the Cardinals as they try to catch up after coronavirus cases delayed their shortened season. Photo by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.comThe Cardinals reached the one-third point (20 games) of the baseball season Wednesday, easily the last team to do so. But, no matter how many games have been played, the staff’s holding opposition hitters to a major-league-low .180 average before Wednesday merited attention.