So it's been a while...

It's been about three weeks and I am finally getting back into the flow of things, mainly catching up on sports news since I was pretty much out of the loop for at least two of the three weeks as I was overseas before coming back home and then leaving for a family vacation. I won't lie. I completely forgot to post the Darryl Kyle and Jack Buck tributes until after I got back home and realized what day it was.

Rather than post for each series, I'm just going to do one giant post for all the series that I've missed out on the past few weeks. It makes my life much easier.

June 12, 2007
St. Louis 1, Kansas City 8
Losing pitcher - Brad Thompson (4-2)
HR: Ryan Ludwick (2)

June 13, 2007
St. Louis 7, Kansas City 3
Winning pitcher - Adam Wainwright (5-5)

June 14, 2007
St. Louis 8, Kansas City 17
Losing pitcher - Kip Wells (2-11)
HR: Chris Duncan (11), Albert Pujols (16)

June 15, 2007
St. Louis 3, Oakland 14
Losing pitcher - Braden Looper (6-6)

June 16, 2007
St. Louis 15, Oakland 6
Winning pitcher - Russ Springer (2-0)
HR: Chris Duncan (12)

June 17, 2007
St. Louis 10, Oakland 6
Winning pitcher - Russ Springer (3-0)
HR: Ryan Ludwick (3), Scott Spiezio (3)

June 18, 2007
Kansas City 5, St. Louis 3
Losing pitcher - Adam Wainwright (5-6)
HR: Scott Rolen (4)

June 19, 2007
Kansas City 1, St. Louis 5
Winning pitcher - Brad Thompson (5-2)
HR: Chris Duncan (13)

June 20, 2007
Kansas City 6, St. Louis 7
Winning pitcher - Kip Wells (3-11)
HR: Ryan Ludwick (4)

June 22, 2007
Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 0
Losing pitcher - Anthony Reyes (0-9)

June 23, 2007
Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 8
Winning pitcher - Adam Wainwright (6-6)
HR: Chris Duncan (14), Juan Encarnacion (5)

June 24, 2007
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 1
Losing pitcher - Brad Thompson (5-3)

June 25, 2007
St. Louis 1, N.Y. Mets 2
Losing pitcher - Russ Springer (3-1)

June 26, 2007
St. Louis 5, N.Y. Mets 3
Winning pitcher - Brad Thompson (6-3)
SV - Randy Flores (1)
HR: Brendan Ryan (1)

June 27, 2007
St. Louis 0, N.Y. Mets 2
Losing pitcher - Anthony Reyes (0-10)

June 29, 2007
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 2
Winning pitcher - Troy Percival (1-0)
SV - Jason Isringhausen (15)

June 30, 2007
St. Louis 1, Cincinnati 5
Losing pitcher - Adam Wainwright (6-7)

July 1, 2007
St. Louis 11, Cincinnati 7
Winning pitcher - Troy Percival (2-0)
HR: Chris Duncan (15), Ryan Ludwick 2 (5, 6)

July 2, 2007
St. Louis 11, Arizona 3
Winning pitcher - Russ Springer (4-1)

July 3, 2007
Arizona 7, St. Louis 1
Losing pitcher - Todd Wellemeyer (2-2)

July 4, 2007
Arizona 4, St. Louis 5
Winning pitcher - Ryan Franklin (3-0)
SV - Jason Isringhausen (16)
HR: Chris Duncan (16), Brendan Ryan (2)

July 5, 2007
Arizona 2, St. Louis 3
Winning pitcher - Adam Wainwright (7-7)
SV - Jason Isringhausen (17)
HR: Juan Encarnacion (6)

Milestone watch:
Adam Kennedy needs 3 0 hits for 1,000 career hits.
Scott Rolen needs 1 hits for 1,500 career hits.
Jim Edmonds needs 15 13 hits for 1,000 hits as a Cardinal.
Albert Pujols needs 2 RBI for 800 career RBI and 7 0 games for 1,000 career games played.
Scott Spiezio needs 30 18 hits for 1,000 career hits.
Albert Pujols needs 8 5 RBI to tie Lou Brock for 9th all-time in Cardinal history with 814 RBI.
Scott Rolen needs 10 9 RBI for 1,000 career RBI.
Jason Isringhausen needs 10 9 saves for 200 Cardinal saves.

Barring someone pulling out of the annual midseason classic, this year is the first year since 1998 that the defending world champions only sent one representative to the All Star Game (1998, Edgar Renteria, Florida Marlins; 2007, Albert Pujols, St. Louis Cardinals). The last time that the Cardinals had only one player was 2002 with Matt Morris. Kelly Stinnett has opted against reporting to Triple A Memphis and Tomo Ohka has been given his unconditional release from the club. Stinnett was only signed since Yadier Molina was on the DL. Kip Wells pitched the longest relief outing for the Cardinals on Tuesday, July 3rd, since Sterling Hitchcock did so on August 26, 2003. Given his poor record this season, the Cardinals opted to move Wells to the bullpen. Jason Isringhausen has been lights out, getting 16 saves in 18 chances. The Cardinals traded a player to be named later for Mike Maroth from the Detroit Tigers.

This season, the Cardinals have used nine different starting pitchers (Carpenter, Keisler, Looper, Maroth, Reyes, Thompson, Wainwright, Wellemeyer, and Wells), and 22 pitchers overall including utilityman Scott Spiezio. The Cardinals finished the month of June with a 13-13 record and currently are sporting a 38-43 record and are 8.5 games behind the Milwaukee Brewers.