The team finished the 2002 season with a 98-64 record and won the NL West Division Title, but were swept out in the NLDS by the St. Louis Cardinals.

Following the regular season, in which the 12-4 Panthers won their third NFC South division title, they hosted the Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium in the Panthers first home playoff game since January 2004.

Though the Panthers were heavy favorites, the Cardinals won 33-13, intercepting Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme five times.

The following season, the Panthers traveled to face the Cardinals and won 34-21 in a game in which the Panthers defense intercepted the Cardinals ' Kurt Warner five times as well.

Chicago halted St. Louis ' run to the playoffs by taking 4 of 5 games from the Cardinals at Wrigley Field in early September, after which the hapless Cubs finally won their first division title in 14 years.

The Cubs have won 10 of those pennants in Major League Baseball's Modern Era ( 1901 – present ), while all 18 of the Cardinals ' have been won since 1901.

The Cardinals also have a clear edge when it comes to World Series successes, having won 11 championships to the Cubs ' 2.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

The Lions have won four NFL Championships, the last in 1957, giving the club the second-longest NFL championship drought behind the Arizona Cardinals.

The Cardinals won the game, 5 – 2.

The Ball State Cardinals have won several conference championships and earned a number of NCAA Tournament berths over the years, including:

Following the tension of Game Six, the Cardinals pitching and defense came undone in Game 7 and their offense was shut down by Saberhagen leading to the lowest batting average to date (. 188 by the Cardinals, later broken by 2001 Yankees ) and fewest runs ( 13 for the Cardinals, still stands ) of any team in a 7 game series, and the Royals won 11 – 0 to clinch the franchise's only World Series title.

In Week 9, the Vikings played the Arizona Cardinals at home and won 27 – 24 in overtime.

They won the National League Division Series in five games over the Arizona Diamondbacks, but lost to the eventual World Series champions St. Louis Cardinals in six games during the NLCS.

The Brewers then won Game Five 6 – 4, giving them a 3 – 2 series lead, but the Cardinals trounced Don Sutton winning Game 6 13 – 1, and rallied for three runs late in Game 7 to win the Series, 4 games to 3.

The Brewers came out of the All-Star break with a bang as they won their first seven games back, all of them on the road, sweeping first the Giants and then the Cardinals, taking over first place in the Wild Card standings.

The two teams split the first two games at Miller Park, then the Cardinals took two out of 3 games at Busch Stadium and won Game 6 to win the National League pennant and eventually the World Series against the Texas Rangers.

The Redskins beat the Giants 28 – 14, but the Giants won their next three games against the Saint Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, and Arizona Cardinals.

The Cardinals as a team won 101 games during the season and earned another postseason berth.

After the Cardinals took a three-games-to-two advantage, a controversial Game 6 call by umpire Don Denkinger overshadowed the remainder of the Series ( which the Royals won in seven games ).

The Rockies season was scheduled to begin on March 31 against the St. Louis Cardinals at St. Louis, however, the game was rescheduled to the next day because of foul weather.

The Cardinals won their next home game, defeating the defending Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins 30-21.

However the next game, against the Chicago Cardinals resulted in a 26-0 Tornadoes loss.

Over the next three games at Yankee Stadium, Musial had three more hits as the Cardinals defeated the Yankees in the Series four games to one.

After missing most of the next game ( a 24-14 loss to the Cardinals ) with the flu, he led San Francisco to victory in all of their remaining games of the season, giving the team a 14 – 2 record.

The very next day, the Cardinals returned the favor on the Giants on a 2 – 0 no-hitter by Ray Washburn — the first time in Major League history that back-to-back no-hitters had been pitched in the same series.

For the next few years, a black player would sporadically pop up on a team: Harold Bradley played one season with the Chicago Cardinals in 1928, and David Myers played for two New York City-based teams in 1930 and 1931.

The Cardinals ' win and the Phillies ' defeat of the Reds made the Cardinals the National League champions, and they next faced the New York Yankees in the 1964 World Series.

The Tigers lost the next two Series games to fall behind the Cardinals three games to one and were facing elimination when Lolich returned to pitch in Game 5.

On March 4, Warner re-signed with the Cardinals to a two-year deal worth $ 23 million total, $ 4 million for each of the next two years, with a $ 15 million signing bonus.

After losing in the 1926 World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals, they went 110 – 44 the next year, winning the A. L.

Akers eventually ran his streak to a record 19 consecutive postseason field goal conversions ; it was snapped the very next week against the Arizona Cardinals.

He was also reportedly one of the frontrunners to be the next St. Louis Cardinals ' manager before current manager Tony La Russa decided to stay with the Cardinals.

In 1926, it broadcast the Cardinals-Yankees World Series, and starting the next season the station was regularly carrying Cardinals ' games.

Over the next nine seasons, however, the Cardinals experienced only one more winning season, going 39-37 in 2002, before their relocation.

* The next night, in Pittsburgh, the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates wore uniforms of the St. Louis Stars and Grays, respectively.

Dobson would spend the next 2 1 / 2 years as a reliever and spot starter for the Tigers including pitching 42 / 3 innings of relief in the team's 1968 World Series victory over the St Louis Cardinals.

On 22 February 2006, it was confirmed that Zen would be elevated to College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI in the next consistory on 24 March 2006.

The next day, Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees struck out Rentería for his four thousandth strikeout on the way to winning his three hundredth game as the Yankees beat the Cardinals 5 – 2.

When each team next played in a World Series, both won their respective series, the Cardinals in, and the Red Sox in.

With Hal McRae batting next, Cardinals ' catcher and 1982 World Series MVP Darrell Porter, who had played four seasons with the Royals, allowed a passed ball, and both Kansas City runners moved up a base.