The Games that Defined the Decade

We’re approaching the end of the decade, which means its time for retrospective after retrospective about the last ten years. We can do so for the Cardinals, who were undeniably one of the most successful teams in the league over the last decade. Former VEB writer Alex Crisafulli proved it with math and everything. The first half of the decade was filled with champagne baths, pennants, and division titles. The second half of the decade was a little rockier. Now that we’re at the end of the 2010s, we can use hindsight to identify the games that best exemplified Cardinals baseball this decade.

Before proceeding, I have to clarify that most- but not all- of these were positive moments. When…