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- Updated: May 18, 2016
1:03 AM ET
ST. LOUIS — As lackluster as the St. Louis Cardinals looked Tuesday night, there were a few seconds when the stadium suddenly jolted to life, a loud crack and a ball screaming toward the right-field stands suddenly commanding everyone’s attention.
Carlos Gonzalez backed up, then backed up some more and caught Matt Carpenter’s fifth-inning drive with his back mere inches from the wall.
“Carp got into that ball with two guys on. [That goes] and it’s a 3-3 tie game,” manager Mike Matheny said. “So, that was really the only missed opportunity.”
The Cardinals just haven’t had their magic working this season. Without any radical overhauls, they have produced a far more productive offense than they had a season ago, but the results have been nowhere near as satisfactory, their latest loss by a score of 3-1 to the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night.
In part, that’s because Cardinals …
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