Bader triples, homers to spark Cardinals to 5-1 lead over Brewers in eighth
(WorldNews Sport)

Not that they were concerned about the various possibilities, but the Cardinals took the most direct route available to baseball`s postseason Sunday at Busch Stadium. They won their game. With Harrison Bader tripling to ignite a four-run third inning and hitting a 425-foot homer into Big Mac Land in the fourth, the Cardinals jumped on the Milwaukee Brewers early as they posted a 5-2 victory in the final game of the regular season. Their next destination, as the second-place team in the National League Central Division, will not be to Detroit for a makeup game or two on Monday. It will be to San Diego for the start of a wild-card round, two-out-of-three playoff series to start on Wednesday....