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How They Got There: Cardinals 2022 season recap

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April 7: ‘Big Three’ cheered

With Albert Pujols, Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina all playing, the Cards rolled to a 9-0 season-opening win

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April 12: Pujols hits 1st HR of season

In addition to racking up 3 hits, Pujols cranked his 1st home run back in a Cardinals uniform

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April 25: Worst loss of ‘22

A strike away from a win, reliever Giovanny Gallegos allows the Mets to score 5 in the 9th, resulting in a 5-2 defeat

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June 5: Cabrera pitches 4 in win

After Adam Wainwright went 7, Génesis Cabrera threw 4 scoreless in relief as the Cards beat the Cubs in 11

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June 7: Walk-off loss to Rays

When Cards rest closer Ryan Helsley, Drew VerHagen gives up a walk-off home run to light-hitting infielder Taylor Walls

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June 14: 1 strike from no-hitter

Miles Mikolas came within 1 strike of throwing the first Cards no-no in 21 years, but it was broken up by Pittsburgh’s Cal Mitchell

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June 29: Helsley surrenders only loss

Ryan Helsley’s only wobble of the season came when Avisaíl García hit a 2-run homer off the All-Star closer in the 9th

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July 2: Cards swat 4 straight HRs

Nolan Arenado, Nolan Gorman, Juan Yepez and Dylan Carlson hit 4 straight HRs for just the 11th time in NL/AL history

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July 9: Losses pile up

St. Louis found itself 3 1/2 games back of the Brewers in the division race after a skid of 8 losses in 10 games

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Aug. 4: Cardinals sweep a crucial DH

When the Cardinals took 2 from the Cubs and the Brewers lost, it created a tie atop the NL Central. St. Louis would not trail again.

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Aug. 22: Monty throws a ‘Maddux’

Trade Deadline pickup Jordan Montgomery needed just 98 pitches to shut out the Cubs while allowing only one hit

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Aug. 25: Goldy’s Triple Crown push

Paul Goldschmidt’s 3-hit, 2-HR, 5-RBI day pulled him within 1 HR of leading the NL in average, homers and RBIs

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Sept. 14: Beautiful friendship

In their 325th start together, Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina break the record for most games as a starting battery in MLB history

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Sept. 23: Pujols hits 699 and 700

Playing before his 5 children, and against the club he played for in 2021, Pujols hits home runs 699 and 700

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Sept. 27: Back on top of the Central

The Cardinals dispatched the Brewers to clinch the NL Central, the 15th division title in franchise history

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Oct. 8: Cards' season ends

Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina each singled in their final at-bats, but the Cards could not push a run across in a 2-0 loss