Mike Shildt is ready. He hopes his St. Louis players are, too. The Cardinals dropped a rain-shortened season finale, then turned their attention toward the NL wild-card game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday. “If we’re going to get to where we want to go, we’d like to go through the team that just won it the previous year,” said Shildt, the Cardinals manager. “We might as well start with them right off the bat.” Matt Duffy extended his hitting streak to a career-high 13 games with a pair of run-scoring singles to help the Chicago Cubs to a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals on Sunday in a game that was halted after seven innings. Read more https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401229470
