For innings, for days, for most of this home stand, the Cardinals had been watching other teams have all the fun of watching baseballs soar over the wall while their home ballpark remained less than hospitable to their swings.
Shoulders, like fly balls, slumped as they dropped at the warning track.
The lift came at the right time.
Harrison Bader turned on a two-strike pitch to revive the Cardinals in the seventh inning and Nolan Arenado, the Cardinals’ reliable source of power, followed with a home run. In the same inning, the two Cardinals had done what the team had not since April 15: hit two home runs in the same game.