The St. Louis Cardinals captured baseball's attention with an amazing wild-card run in the second half of the season, but that wasn't enough to save manager Mike Shildt's job.
The Cardinals fired Shildt on Thursday after the team's miracle run in the second half, president of baseball operations John Mozeliak announced in a news conference.
The move comes as a surprise considering how well the Cardinals played in the second half. Things looked bleak at the trade deadline. The Cardinals sat at 52-52, and were seven games out of a wild-card spot.