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On Friday night at Busch Stadium, Jordan turned the field into his personal stage.

Thousands and thousands of red-clad 最新杏吧原创ans cheered and shrieked and perhaps even wondered how they could be so lucky to experience this.

For one Cardinals player, the rivalry between the Cardinals and Cubs has carried much weight for his entire life. For another, it is just gaining meaning.听

Being born in 最新杏吧原创, growing up near Kansas City and later attending the University of Arkansas, pitcher Ryne Stanek grew up a fan of the Cardinals.听Until the eighth inning of the series opener against the Cubs on Friday, Stanek was just a witness to the feud. Now his name will forever be in the record books for the historical rivalry.听

Inning after inning, as their lineup looked to string together consistent offense, the Cardinals saw one of the youngest stars from their most storied rival leave his paw prints all over their latest encounter.

Coming off a Friday night opener filled with homers that powered them to a win, the Cardinals saw Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong help Chicago blast past them in their second meeting of the season Saturday at Busch Stadium.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. 鈥� The Yankees say they can鈥檛 wait for the return of designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton, and it鈥檚 finally on the horizon because the slugger started running this week after waiting more than a month for his low-grade calf injury to heal.

Sure, they鈥檝e missed Stanton鈥檚 presence in a lineup that leans far left, with only two other right-handed bats usually starting against right-handed pitching 鈥� Aaron Judge in right field and whoever is playing shortstop, Jose Caballero or Anthony Volpe.

It sounded like the chants of 鈥渙verrated, overrated, overrated鈥� were growing from the crowd of shirtless boosters in right field Busch Stadium when Cubs leadoff hitter Pete Crow-Armstrong pierced them with a souvenir.

Faster than his 444-foot home run reached the 鈥淭arps Off鈥� section, Crow-Armstrong is emerging as a classic heel in one of baseball鈥檚 oldest rivalries. The Cubs鈥� center fielder already had two hits, two unsavory celebrations on base, and parts in two rallies when he drilled a pitch in the eighth inning.

The Cardinals were limited to five hits Saturday, and two of them came too late to provide much help in a 6-1 loss to the Cubs to even the series.

Here's what manager Oliver Marmol as well as starting pitcher Kyle Leahy and second baseman JJ Wetherholt had to say afterwards.

When he stepped into the batter鈥檚 box in the first inning on Friday night at Busch Stadium for an at-bat that marked his first at the big-league level in nearly two years, recently called up Cardinals slugger Nelson Velazquez was not looking to hit a home run off Cubs starter Shota Imanaga.

At the time, the Cardinals trailed 3-0 to the Cubs after starter Andre Pallante allowed a three-run homer to Ian Happ in the top half of the first inning. A hit by pitch and a walk put runners on base for Velazquez, who started at designated hitter and batted cleanup after being called up from Class AAA Memphis early in the day.