LONDON — If the Cardinals’ plan was to come to the United Kingdom and show off their historic brand and the brand of baseball they’ve historically played, they gave a new audience an eyeful of their present.
A last place team was down by seven runs before it got a hit and a veteran pitcher, earmarked to make this start for the Cardinals, was gone before the end of the fourth inning.
The Cubs, curiously wearing their home whites for a game hosted by the Cardinals, trounced their archrivals in the first National League regular-season game played in the United Kingdom.