The St. Louis Cardinals are still making a run for a postseason berth despite the team's selling position during the MLB trade deadline at the end of July.
St. Louis was able to get back above .500 in a 3-2 series-clinching win over a division rival, the Chicago Cubs, on Sunday night.
Pedro Pages hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the third to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead. The Cubs looked for a comeback after hitting a two-run blast of their own from Matt Shaw. St. Louis would later take the lead again in the seventh after Nolan Gorman hit a single that would drive in the game-winning run.
The Cubs will drop to 67-50 while holding the top spot in the NL Wild Card, and the Cardinals are now 60-59, sitting just 3.5 games behind the New York Mets for the last Wild Card spot.
Although the Cardinals took the win, Cubs centerfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong was able to make team history in the defeat. The NL MVP candidate is the first Cubs player to record 30 or more stolen bases in a season at 23 years old or younger since Ryne Sandberg did it in 1983, according to MLB.com's Sarah Langs.
Despite Crow-Armstrong running into a recent slump at the plate in August, he's still very much so in the MVP race. In 115 games this season, the 23-year-old has a .259 batting average, .296 on-base percentage, .527 slugging percentage, a .822 OPS, and a 6.1 WAR while hitting 27 home runs, 78 RBI, and stealing 30 bases.
Crow-Armstrong has entered talks for greatness, as Ryne Sandberg is one of the greatest Chicago Cubs players of all time. The Hall of Famer had a lifetime batting average of .285, hit 282 home runs, and stole 344 bases in his career while also winning an MVP in 1984.
Sandberg unfortunately passed away on July 28 after fighting a battle with cancer.