Cards shock Tigers in Game 1 behind rookie Reyes (ESPN.com)

Don’t count Cards out so quickly (Wojciechowski - ESPN.com)

We loved the Cardinals — until mid-June. Then they became the Chicago Cubs, then the Cardinals, then the Cubs, and then who-knows-what by the end of the season. Whatever they were, they didn’t look like a team that was going to require a victory parade. But now the romance is back, or at least it should be after the way the Cardinals sent the Tigers to the chop shop. They neutered the soldout and once-geeked Comerica Park crowd. And they neutralized the Tigers’ home-field advantage.