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The Cardinals sent Willie Montañez to the Phillies on April 8, 1970, and Bob Browning (minors) to the Phillies on August 30, 1970, as compensation. [1] January 17, 1970: Mike Tyson was drafted by the Cardinals in the 3rd round of the 1970 Major League Baseball Draft. [2] March 31, 1970: Ramón Hernández was released by the Cardinals. [3]
The 1970 St. Louis Cardinals season was the 51st season the team was in the league.The team improved on their previous output of 4–9–1, winning eight games. [1] Despite them shutting out three consecutive opponents (and holding a fourth, the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, without a touchdown in a 6–6 draw), they failed to reach the playoffs for the 22nd straight season ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
This list is complete and up-to-date through the 2024 season. The 2011 St. Louis Cardinals after winning the World Series.. The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared in at least one game for the St. Louis Cardinals franchise, including the 1882 St. Louis Brown Stockings, the 1883–1898 St. Louis Browns, and the 1899 St. Louis Perfectos.
During the 1960s the Cardinals won two World Series and played in another. In the 1980s the Cardinals played in three World Series, winning in 1982. Most recently, the Cardinals have made the playoffs nine times, winning seven NL Central titles and qualifying as a wild-card entrant in 2001, 2011 and 2012, winning the World Series in 2006 and 2011.
October 15 – For the third time in the 1970 World Series, the Baltimore Orioles overcome a 3–0 deficit to bury the Cincinnati Reds 9–3, and win the World Championship four games to one. Frank Robinson and Merv Rettenmund each homer and drive in two runs. Third baseman Brooks Robinson, the "human vacuum cleaner", easily wins the Series MVP ...
Locker will thrive in Oakland and win a 1972 World Series ring. May earns a regular job in Milwaukee and becomes a 1973 AL All-Star. The Orioles reacquire relief pitcher Moe Drabowsky, a 1966 World Series hero, from the Kansas City Royals for infielder Bobby Floyd. In doing so, they give Drabowsky the chance to earn a second World Series ring.
In Game 3 of the World Series, Pujols became just the third player to hit three home runs in a World Series game. [98] In Game 6, third baseman David Freese and outfielder Lance Berkman each tied the score on the Cardinals' final strike—the first such occurrence in any game in MLB history—and St. Louis defeated the Texas Rangers later that ...