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A soul-warming occurrence for something like the last 140 years, baseball's annual return to Pittsburgh this weekend brought with it as required an inevitable portion of nostalgia, sometimes felt in its acute form as plain old sadness.

PHOENIX — By the time the scoreboard had calmed, the crowds’ ovations had quieted, and the overstuffed box score had been printed, the St. Louis Cardinals’ victory Saturday night at Chase Field had featured a whirlwind of events.

ST. LOUIS — Sometimes it is the hitters who provide all the relief necessary.

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ST. LOUIS — If there is to be a fifth player plucked from the Cardinals’ roster and added to next week’s All-Star Game, the sage choice would be starter Miles Mikolas.

In St. Louis, as sports fans do, you can weigh the Albert Pujols experiment (having him take a roster spot the entire 2022 season) vs. the Albert Pujols experience (getting to partake in standing ovations and take in the moment when he thwacks a fastball).

ATLANTA — Whether Miles Mikolas was teasing a no-hitter or shouldering another quality start for a rotation in need of every single one, the Cardinals have trumpeted the right-hander as an All-Star candidate and equal to all the aces he’s faced, from Max Scherzer to Corbin Burnes.

His hilariously timed home runs have become the stuff of internet legend. What are the odds?! We found out.