They call it the stretch run in horse racing, and the phrase applies as well to the current stage of baseball’s 162-game season, as most teams enter the week with less than 40 games left to play.
Both Missouri clubs — the St.Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals — have established superiority in their respective leagues, raising the possibility the World Series will stay within the state 30 years after the so-called Show-Me Series.
But there’s a long way to go before fans can count on trekking the 250 miles on I-70 back and forth between those two Midwestern cities.