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Aug. 25, 2001: On this day 11 years ago, jewelry caused a brawl. Kind of. It was late in a game between the Cleveland and Seattle, and the Indians' Omar Vizquel was hitting against the Mariners' Arthur Rhodes. Then Vizquel called timeout, claimin...

ST. LOUIS -- You fight through the monotony of fielding practice in spring training. The sore elbows, the back pain, the starts when you leave your fastball in the bullpen, and maybe a surgery or two at some point in your career. Chris Carpenter m...

Call the St. Louis Cardinals opportunistic. They saw their chance to pounce on a limping Atlanta Braves squad and earned the NL wild-card berth. They saw a Phillies lineup vulnerable to lefties and exploited it to their advantage. Against the Milwauk...

Blog | October 26, 2011

ST. LOUIS -- A famous philosopher named Joaquin Andujar who resided in St. Louis once uttered the classic phrase, "You never know." On this night, never was that statement more true. Game 2 of the World Series belonged to the St. Louis Cardinal...

The goal is to win, and Josh Hamilton and Michael Young did what they had to do.

Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton continues to play through a left groin strain that has bothered him for a few months but noticeably was causing him pain during Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday night.

Arthur Rhodes and Octavio Dotel aren't kids anymore, but the two old men of the Cardinals' bullpen are in their first World Series and both got some big outs St. Louis' Game 1 win.

ST. LOUIS -- Arthur Rhodes pitched half-a-season for the Texas Rangers. When they waived him to make room for two bullpen acquisitions -- Mike Adams and Koji Uehara -- at the deadline, he thought a last World Series chance might be gone, too. But,...

I'm not going to suggest it was the single worst play in postseason history. Babe Ruth, for instance, once got caught stealing for the final out in Game 7 of the World Series, trailing by one run with the Yankees' cleanup hitter at the plate. Dropped...

As is so often the case, the game reminds you that you know less about it than you think you do. Wednesday, figuring that there'd be less need to write about the Cardinals' bullpen before Game 3 -- with Chris Carpenter starting, it made sense to save...

The Cardinals' bullpen didn't start out as a linchpin of their success, but in October, that's exactly what it is.

Now that was a baseball game. I just hope you didn't turn it off after three innings with the Phillies up 4-0 and Cliff Lee cruising along, thinking it was over, turning the channel to that sport where big fat guys bump into each other. If you did...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Do you remember everything that happened leading up to and during a 2011 season that produced the Rangers second straight AL West title? Well, we won't attempt to document every event. But we will highlight many of the key ones th...

The Cardinals made a couple roster moves to create space for reliever Arthur Rhodes and welcomed Matt Holliday back to the lineup.

The Cardinals have bolstered their bullpen for the stretch run by coming to terms with veteran left-hander Arthur Rhodes.

The Texas Rangers placed left-hander Arthur Rhodes on release waivers on Monday.