Pete Kozma

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH The Cardinals have had the best rotations in the majors with the season almost one-quarter over. And they've also thrown the most pitches. Until Los Angeles Dodgers' left-hander...

The Sports Xchange By Bucky Dent, The Sports Xchange St. Louis 'pen helps author 7-6 win ST. LOUIS -- In April, the St. Louis bullpen lost four games with late-inning meltdowns, forcing management to make sweeping changes. While those changes have...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Mets 5, Cardinals 2 Mets 5, Cardinals 2: Jon Niese bounced back with 7 1/3 strong innings and David Wright drove in a pair as visiting New York avoided a four-game sweep at St. Louis. Daniel Murphy went 4-for-4 with an RBI...

The Sports Xchange By Bucky Dent, The Sports Xchange Mets 5, Cardinals 2 ST. LOUIS -- Finally, the New York Mets got a shutdown performance from a starter not named Matt Harvey. Jonathon Niese worked into the eighth inning Thursday, while Daniel...

The Sports Xchange By Bucky Dent, The Sports Xchange Niese finds his form in Mets' 5-2 win ST. LOUIS -- After absorbing an eight-hit, eight-run pounding in a Saturday loss to Pittsburgh, New York Mets left-hander Jonathon Niese knew something had to...

MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH True to his spring training word, manager Mike Matheny has been giving 36-year-old right fielder Carlos Beltran more days off in hopes of keeping him fresher for the second half. Beltran seemed...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Chris Carpenter, the rehabbing (again) Cardinals right hander, cautions that neither he nor anyone else should look too far ahead regarding his comeback. But, anticipating the day...

The Sports Xchange By Bucky Dent, The Sports Xchange Cardinals 4, Mets 2 ST. LOUIS -- Just as good teams find ways to win games, struggling sides create ways to lose them. So it went Wednesday night in Busch Stadium, where St. Louis posted its 12th...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - St. Louis Cardinals - INSIDE PITCH Matt Carpenter was the Cardinals' top pinch hitter last season with 11 runs batted in on eight hits, and the Cardinals' bench, relatively unproductive this season, could use him....

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Cardinals 10, Mets 4 Cardinals 10, Mets 4: Carlos Beltran homered and drove in a season-high four runs as St. Louis sent visiting New York to its fifth consecutive loss. Beltran collected three hits while Jon Jay also homered...

The Sports Xchange By Rob Rains, The Sports Xchange Cardinals 10, Mets 4 ST. LOUIS -- John Gast insisted that he did not expect to be nervous when he made his major league debut for the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night, and that certainly...

INF Daniel Descalso got a start in place of regular SS Pete Kozma and contributed a pair of hits, upping his batting average to .197. Descalso also swiped his third base of the season, tying Yadier Molina and Shane Robinson for the team lead. RHP Lance...