By: Sammy Stava @StavaOnSTL After a one-year hiatus, the St. Louis Blues have returned to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the 2019 postseason. It’s the team’s seventh playoff berth in the last eight seasons after just one playoff appearance in the last six seasons from 2006-2011. Finishing the regular season with a record of 45-28-9…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Shildt would prefer to not have his team consistently find itself in a spot where it’s forced to rally. At the moment, though, the St. Louis Cardinals manager isn’t arguing with the results. At least when the Cardinals are facing Pittsburgh’s wobbly bullpen. Tyler O’Neill capped another rally by driving in…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt was hoping to swing for baseball history when Brewers manager Craig Counsell took the bat out of his hands. Though he felt for the boo-bird Cardinal fans behind the visiting dugout, the move wasn’t much of a surprise to Goldschmidt. “We’re still in a tight game there,” the six-time All-Star…

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Saint Louis FC drew 1-1 against Tampa Bay Rowdies in front of 4,037 fans at World Wide Technology Soccer Park in Match 3 of the USL Championship regular season. Saint Louis FC opened the scoring in the 26th minute through captain Sam Fink who got on the end of a corner…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ivan Barbashev recorded his first career NHL hat trick to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night. Oskar Sundqvist and Pat Maroon also scored for the Blues, who have points in their last four games. Rookie Jordan Binnington made 20 saves,…