The 2020 Cardinals Did the Impossible. Then They Did It Again.
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The 2020 season seems like blur at this point, but so much happened despite it lasting only 60 games. One of the biggest storylines was the St. Louis Cardinals' season. They dealt with the brunt of the pandemic more than any other team in the league, but they somehow pulled off the impossible. Then in 2021, they did it again...
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“The Run of 21” was the most fun I’ve ever had watching baseball as a cardinals fan outside of the 2011 postseason. I have such high hopes for this season
Only for our closer to lose it all to the dodgers like he did most the season.
I would love to see a video on the career of carpenter… from being a contact hitter to almost winning MVP and then his sharp decline. I think it would be cool
He's already made a vid on him 3 months ago
He was never a contact hitter. Even before he started hitting home runs he was still striking out well over 100 times a year
@@decker528 True. The year(2013) he lead the league in hits with 199 and a .318 batting average he had 98 strike outs.
@@decker528 he was a very good 2-strike hitter for a couple years, but that’s not exactly the litmus test for being a contact hitter. I think of a contact hitter as someone who can reliably hit any good pitch that’s thrown over the plate and Matt has always struggled to hit a good high fastball.
Wow
As a Cardinals this team brings moments of PURE JOY and then just Pain. See how we hit in the WC game this year.
I was at BPV for the Wild Card game. I wish I could describe the feeling the second Reyes was brought in.
@@jack-ww1ycif I recall correctly once we didn’t score with the bases loaded I just chalked it up. I was over it
Everyone knew the second Reyes was put in the game the Cards were done
@@AtillatheHun YUP. Everyone except Schildt, apparently. Wonder how that worked out for him.. oh wait.
was sad to see them lose in the wild card game, that hot streak at the end of the year was a movie
Wainwright was pitching amazing that game too, plus he had that comebacker that he caught (I thought he was a goner) Team definitely to me had a 2011 feel
2020 and 2021 were the prime examples of the Cardinals’ devil magic
add in 2018 and that makes 3 of the last 4 seasons
you could probably throw in 2011 too
Might as well add this year, there is no way with Pujols coming back to the Cardinals before retirement. Its going to be wild
Shhhhh they must not now about the magic
So true, like the win streak they went on at the end of the year
I have such a good feeling about the Cards this year, with Pujols back and it being his and Yadi's last years, there is magic in the air.
Pujols is killing left handed pitching this year and it's been fun to see Goldschmidt, Arenado, and Pujols face left handed pitching this season. The 2022 Cardinals have something about them. Also, I've been watching the Cardinals since 96 and 2020-2022 is the most fun defense I've ever seen for them.
I was 100% down for when the 2021 Cardinals went on one of the best hot streaks ever.
Having a ton of gold-glove caliber fielders at the end of the year is an ok consolation prize.
Good stuff
Really surprised you didn't mention Alex Reyes and his insane saves streak, despite his horrific FIP
oh wow I completely missed that
I was there for the first blown one. Man that sucked
Gotta love my cardinals. I have huge expectations for em this coming year
Last season was a dream. I’m so happy i got to witness it in my lifetime, as a Cardinals fan. I’m just still so pissed we tossed our game against the Dodgers. I’m still so confused what our management was thinking putting Reyes in to try and secure our win. It was a tragedy. But we’re looking even better this year. I’m expecting us to go far.
God I watched every one of these games in 2020. Absolutely crazy and I'm happy you're tellin' everybody else
As was infamously said back in 2011, they just won't go away. The Cardinals are a goddamn powerhouse. Always when you least expect it.
I'll never forget watching O'Neil hit home runs completely out of Wrigley Field in back-to-back games. Watch him be NL MVP this year, just wait.
Guys the total package pray he stays a cardinal as long as Molina has.
Hoping TON finds an elite level OBP he needs for an MVP run. “Keep the line moving”
The dude is completely and utterly jacked, which unfortunately means that his career won't last very long, but I hope he gives the Cardinals a good decade or so
I've seen a couple of your videos. I just saw your "The single greatest month in Rockies history" video and I just have to say that video totally impressed me with the video editing, good job! +1 subscriber for you!
Thank you!
Man that was a fun month as a rockies fan. My parents even let me stay up late every night to watch with them.
I was at the game Nolan hit his 30th home run of the season and to start the 17 game win streak. Absolutely fantastic, go cards
Alex Reyes didn't belong out there against the Dodgers in a tie game. Still chapped that's how the run ended but what a run.
The STL Cardinals are the single most underrated team in baseball
Which I find to be so wild because they've won the 2nd most World Series.
And then in the 2022 season, it was one of the most exciting regular seasons I've ever witnessed. Then we got stomped in the first round of the playoffs like normal 🤣
Danny Mac is just too damn good on the call. Despite the post season disappointments, 2021 will go down as one of my favorite Cardinals seasons ever.
It really was a fun season and one of the few where I wasn't upset with the result in the playoffs.
Cardinals fan here. Will never forget that 17 game winning streak. Especially, that comeback win against Milwaukee!!! #12in22
The Cardinals didn't actually need any offensive upgrades at last season's trade deadline. The offensive stats at that point were only down due to previous injuries to O'Neill and Bader (with a terrible bench needing to fill in) and a season long slump by DeJong, who by that point had been replaced as the starting shortstop by the surprisingly solid offense (while being at least his equal defensively) of Edmundo Sosa.
Sex God Tyler O’Neil will bring us to the promise land this year
Dude is jacked. I bet he has to do “random” drug testing all the time
You're a legend for using that nickname
Mid atm
This makes me so happy to be a Cardinals fan.
The 17 game win streak was pretty much all we talked about lol. It was awesome to watch
I really hope they win this year since it’s mostly likely going to be Wainwright’s and Molina’s last year
And now Pujols, too!
since 2000, the Cardinals have been in:
1st 11 times
2nd 6 times
3rd 4 times
4th 1 time
playoff wise, they have:
been the Wild Card 5 times
Gone to the postseason 15 times (they didn't go 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Won the Division series 10 times
Won the Championship series 4 times
Won the World Series 2 times
Also, worth noting that 1999 was the last time the Cardinals ended a season below .500 and 1990 was the last time they ended in last
The Cardinals had a losing season in 2007.
“They pulled off the impossible not once, but twice.”
And put many of us Cardinals fans in near-cardiac arrest in the process. Love my Redbirds, but do we really have to make the playoffs in this fashion so often?
Well… we have the 2 best players in the National League now, our 42 year old DH is raking in August, and our pitching is finally finding it’s stride. Watch out for them this October.
Danny Mac is very good at yelling.
I remember both of these stretches. Oh my gosh they were insane, for entirely different reasons.
I counted the cardinals out in august but the cardinals did what the cardinals always do, the shocked me and probably everyone. I was rooting for the Cards down the stretch
My main man! Ya always deliver! Thanks SportStorm!
As a long term cards fan, I want us to come back full force in 22, and I truly believe this'll be a year to remmeber. I believe molina and waino will have something to prove this season as a going away present for the fans and come in full force. They'll be gold glove winners for their positions and waino will come out to win a cy young award. We're going away with 6 gold glove awards, 3 silver sluggers, 2 homerun derby finalist, plus a world series win. We have the best 3rd basemen in the league, the best left fielder, a top 3 1st basemen, a top 10 center fielder, catcher, and 2nd basemen. Maybe Carlson will break out and show us what a rookie of the year contender will do, and Sosa will show us he deserves to be at short stop. This team is stacked defensively and 3 players are top 20 hitters. If our pitching staff can keep their heads on straight and pitch like everyone knows they can, I belive this year will be a no contest win for the cards. Our only competition is the dodgers. But they'll have their hands full with us, no doubt.
😂🤣This stupid take sure hasn't aged well. Everyone roots for their home team but you had a completely unrealistic expectations of what any team, let alone the Cardinals, can accomplish in a season.
I had the great opportunity to either listen or watch nearly every game of these two seasons, and what a ride it was. I still question a lot of the Mozeliak trades (Arozorena, Adolis Garcia, and Luke Voit) but they somehow make it work.
Could you do a video on the likelihood of the braves actually winning the World Series last year? I don’t think a lot of people understand how unlikely it actually was. Also, great video!
Definitely something I might look into
Yes please! Go Braves!
He should look into the likelihood of the Astros winning a home game in the WS
No, we do.
@@King_Immanuel oof😂😂
I commented asking for a cardnials winning streak video and you made it, thanks man
Oh, you mean the MLB Steelers.
I love the cards. Fun to watch no matter what. You never know what there gonna do
On Hicks: he was going to miss the 2020 season anyway as he was recovering from Tommy John surgery. He opted out for health reasons.
He also is type 1 diabetic, he was at an increased risk
Great vid!
Subscribed. Great content
Awesome video!
You should make an entire doc on the 2020 season, so much madness
I was at the 17th win. The air was electric. It felt like a playoff game. In the last inning everyone was chanting 17. Ill be chasing that feeling for a long time.
The edit of the cards' 17-game win streak was very well done!
I was still pretty pleased with the Wild Card game. the Dodgers had a 105 record so anyone looking at the numbers probably would have thought that the Cardinals would be crushed, but instead it was a pitcher's duo until the 9th inning
This video so good bruh
Love you sports storm
I remember the game in early August where the Cardinals pitcher Alex Reyes imploded against the Braves
as a cardinals fan, I watch this and it makes me happy but its almost a smoke screen of what the actual season was.
I believe that the 2019-2021 cardinals had no business being in the playoffs because of how horrible they were. they were ranked at the bottom of all hitting and pitching stats in those years. honestly in 2020 they had expanded playoff brackets to thank for getting in and then in 2021 they had a HORRIBLE collapse by the Padres and Reds to thank for them getting in. I love the 17 game winning streak but they weren't playing any great teams except for the brewers (twice if I remember correctly). Of course it is incredibly hard to win 17 games in a row and I'm not taking anything away from that but it wasn't like they played top tier teams. when they finally did face a top tier team like the dodgers, they were basically shut out (they got a run off of a mishap by the dodgers. the bats were quiet).
The Cards beat the Dodgers during their winning streak
@@MttSuddarth that is not true. the last series they played with the dodgers was in september and they split the series. the winning streak started in the next series against the Reds
(Ranking strictly out of the NL due to the lack of DH in 2019 and 2021)
2019
Runs/Game: 10th in the NL out of 15
Runs Against/Game: 2nd out of 15
2020
R/G: 24th out of 30
RA/G: 6th out of 30
2021
R/G: 10th in the NL out of 15
RA/G: 6th out of 15
You don't know what you're talking about! The Cardinals had great pitching in 2019-20 to make up for disappointing offenses.
As for 2021, the team that pulled off that hot streak in September was very different from the one that floundered in June: the offense was completely healthy and stabilized, the bullpen had been almost entirely rebuilt with much better options, and the starting rotation, well, the patches provided by Lester and Happ were holding to a decent degree while Mikolas finally returned to make a few decent starts.
Vanilla is an underrated flavor
I gotta see a video on how improbable the 2021 giants were and how they became the best team in baseball with frahans projects coming to fruition
Go cards!
win streak montage went so hard bro 😭
Only thing missing in the win streak montage was the insane like 12 player double play against the cubs
another banger
I am too excited to relive the last 2 wild ass red bird seasons.
It’s never the playoffs without the Cardinals crashing the party
go cards
Goooo Cardinals!
We’ve always had this voodoo magic, fun fact since 1918 we’ve only finished last in our division ONCE
Cardinals need a movie just for the 17 win streak
As I Pirates fan, it feels like the Cardinals do this every year. In spite of any odds, catastrophic injury, or a fricken plague, they'll bring up an 18 year old farm hand who's never played baseball before and will hit .300 and win a gold glove.
There is something to be said about the importance of confidence in baseball. Winning teams have managed to get success out of unexpected sources for a long time because playing on a team used to winning makes that player believe they will succeed. The Cardinals getting significant production out of a guy like Aaron Miles for a few years in the mid 2000s immediately comes to mind as a great example of this.
It sucks in the 2020 season that they had to play so many games in such little time so they were worn out by the time playoffs came around so they didn’t have a chance
im from Pa but im a die hard Cards fan. i will devour any vid with St Louis in the title lol.
nostalgic
goldschmidt and o'neill carried me to a fantasy championship last year
That's just what St. Louis sports teams do. 1999: The Rams, whose '90s constitute one of the worst decades in sports history, lose star QB Trent Green to injury and are forced to start Kurt Warner, who comes out of nowhere to lead the Greatest Show on Turf to a Super Bowl championship. 2011: In a do-or-die last dance for manager Tony La Russa and star first baseman Albert Pujols (yes, I know the Cards just re-signed him), the Redbirds sit 10 games back of a wild card spot near the end of August, and one of the greatest Septembers on record culminates in an all-time classic World Series where the Rangers are a strike away from winning their first championship TWICE and ultimately concede. 2019: The Blues fire Mike Yeo partway through the season, and a last-place position at the beginning of January forces interim coach Craig Berube to lean on rookie goalie Jordan Binnington and acquisition Ryan O'Reilly, who promptly reverse the tumble via a franchise-record 11-game winning streak and land the Note in the playoffs, where they dispatch three bitter rivals en route to a revenge series against the Bruins 50 years in the making where they ultimately emerge victorious for the first time ever. If a St. Louis team is successful all the way through a season, rest assured they won't go far in the playoffs.
This team is best bearting odds
Cardinals devil magic is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
In order to be an effective, baseball historian, one must appreciate a broader perspective of the Force
Now the run of 23 begins
I guess third time is a charm because they need to do it again this year
Stuff like this history in 2020 is why I think in my opinion the 2020 mlb season was “legitimate”
Can you do a "wtf happened to the 2021 Minnesota twins" video like the collapse of the padres one?
that was our 2k team takeover 😭
Then i guess we can stop calling it impossible
Tommy Edman is a beast
Can’t believe they fired Mike Schildt
My team!!
You know. An odd request by me but maybe you should do a video called a journey of Fernando Rodney to win a ring.
Devil. Magic.
The Cardinals would've made it through the wild card last year if Alex Reyes didn't attempt to hold the Dodgers off in the 9th. Reyes didn't close anything during that streak and that's why it happened. Someone else should've been put into that 9th inning.
The plan was gallegos for 2 innings but he got a blister finishing off the 8th
@@jefferycraig5353 late comment but are you being serious right now.
@@EventsO3525 very late lol but yes, they talked about it in the post game press conference. Someone asked about the decision to take gallegos out and schildt said it was either a blister on one of his fingers from the laces (so he cant grip and control the ball like normal) or broken nail (same issue with the blister) but it was one of the two which is why he didnt pitch the last inning
@@jefferycraig5353 that is going to give me ptsd for life now 😂
@@EventsO3525 yeah, its very unfortunate but just more fuel to the fire for this year
They might not have thrown very hard, but you cannot beat those AARP benefits.
Today 8/18/2022 We Beated The Colorado Rockies 13 To Nothing.
The cardinals are definitely a playoff team this year
Definitely more Cardinals devil magic at work
One of these has to be done about the 2021 Braves. HAS TO BE DONE!
great video but you overlooked something
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE
This god damn Cards team in 2021 (Brewers fan here, I hate the Cards), had to get through an absurd schedule compared to the Reds and Brewers to finish the season in September. When you look at the schedule where they stood at 71-69, they had to still play the Reds, a Mets desperate to stay in the race themselves, a Padres team that was collapsing as you mentioned, a Brewers team that eventually did win a division (BUT COULD'VE WON A LOT SOONER HAD THE CARDS LOST AT LEAST 1 GAME! DEAD SERIOUS! The Brewers could've won the NL Central within the 1st 2 weeks of September had the Reds Cards lost at least a couple games after the early September series), and the Rival cubs.
The Brewers had to play the Indians, got hiccup'd by Detroit, then all of a sudden struggled against the Cards, but eventually won the division while sweeping the Mets. The only true hard team we had was the Dodgers...
The Reds? the only hard teams they had were the White Sox and Dodgers, they were facing Pittsburgh and Washington for the vast majority of September after the Cards series.
The Reds would be the team to collapse. They entered the Cards series 75-67, in the driver's seat for a WC, and ended 83-79.
The Brewers going into the Reds/Cards series were 87-55, ended 95-67. Keep these records in mind.
It means the Brewers were at one point 15 games AHEAD of the Cards, which means the Brewers could've won the division with 15 games to spare. There were 22 games left for the Cards, the Brewers won the division by 5 games. *5*
That's how MIRACULOUS this run was for the Cardinals, they actually somehow had a chance to not only still make the playoffs (which they did, despite being below .500 in the 1st half!), but they ALMOST overtook my Brewers in September ALONE for the Division!
I HATE THE CARDINALS SO MUCH! Because you're right, it's not the 1st time they did this, and it wasn't in 2020
IT WAS 10 YEARS PRIOR! The Cards did the same thing! The Brewers won the division while everyone thought the Cards were down and out! The Cards would not only still make the playoffs, but BEAT the Brewers! On their way to win a World Series! I was PISSED!
Every time the Brewers are remotely successful, the Cards shut us down, just like they ALSO did in 1982!
Its the cardinals, I love them, but they are cardiac killer. They will probably look shell shocked by all star break, coach marmol get heat as new young coach. Then Tyler o Neill arenado, Goldschmidt and co will start playing like mvps and that will be that. Also real quick can we appreciate wainwright for what he is, despite his record in postseason he's generally phenomenal. Just rather unlucky.
I just went to a game last night and they lost to the giants 😞
Yet the cards still fired the manager...
They did this at least 3 times now in the last 11 years looking like they would miss the playoffs only to rally late in the season and make it. It's kind of becoming a superstition for the fans 2011 9.5 back of the wc finished a game up went on to win the ws then the last two years
Early gang
Joe Buck just creamed his pants
Grand slamma
Do it again cards.
SportStorm, one of the few people on youtube who doesn't think the 2020 season was illegitimate. Most of the people that think that would say that no one tried in 2020 and the season was too short to have legitimately good teams in the postseason.
W
Two bad pitches to the Dodgers ended it all.
The Cardinals pull more random BS than any team in baseball historically
The history of the Cardinals is fascinating, to say the least. Even winning their first WS, with the final out created by Babe Ruth caught stealing.