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MLB: Cardinals Get Swept and Now Sit Four Games Behind Cubs

If you're a St. Louis Cardinals fan you have to be sick at what is going on in the bullpen these days.  With an opportunity to gain ground on the Chicago Cubs, the Cards instead get swept by the visiting Milwaukee Brewers and fall four games back.

St. Louis has gone into the later innings with the lead more times than any other team in baseball and has now blown 24 save opportunities, clearly the highest number in the league.

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