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St. Louis – Looking at the way he hits the ball, defends third base at his usual golden glove level and plays like a solid MVP candidate, Cardinal Nolan Arenado’s superstar rarely gets it wrong these days. For this reason, it is worth paying attention to him when he speaks.

When Arenado recently expressed his feeling that the Cardinals were about to start playing some of their best baseball teams and deserved to be named among the best in the league, he raised many eyebrows. After all, the Cardinal had very little from the start at the time and a forgotten record (18-27) against teams with positive records.

Fast forward the clock now until Sunday night, when the Cardinals’ club blared music and smiles repeated after the first sweep in franchise history against the mighty Yankees, and those words from the Arenado sound full of wisdom. Of course, those expectations tend to play out much better when Arenado, the slow-ball player, is in the middle of the line-up, hitting the three-running pigeons and pushing his teammates everywhere with his fiery personality.

“We’re playing pretty good baseball, full baseball,” said Arenado, who has taken three hits, led four runs and earned his 22nd home run this season. 12-9 St. Louis win over Yankees. “The way we’ve been playing lately, we couldn’t really do that in the first half, but now we shoot and shoot and play good defense. I remember saying we didn’t get it all together, but in this stay at home we did.”

Wow, they showed their best baseball game this weekend. After returning to beat the Yankees on Friday with a major double by Paul Dejong and holding the entire game to a 1-0 win on Saturday thanks to good shooting and defense, the Cardinals’ rackets got up in the final part of the series, tying 11 hits. He took eight walks. In all, the Red Birds have swept all of their home series this week and have now won seven in a row to take a two-game lead over the Brewers at NL Central.

“Being over teams like this and setting numbers like we can put up shows we have a massive group here,” said DeJong, who has three home runs, three doubles and 10 RBI in eight days since his return to the majors.

On the other hand, they also noted the level shown by the cardinals. “They did a really good job offensively, they took advantage, they got people on base, they worked out the counts, and they got control of the strike zone. They had a really good team,” Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson said.

Showing a fighting ability that had been missing for long periods earlier in the season, the Cardinal scored five goals in the second half to rally from a 4-1 deficit after starter Adam Wainwright struggled in the early stages. Once again, when the Yankees scored twice at the top of fifth in Aaron Judge’s double, St. Louis responded with three dashes to put the lead back within a comfortable margin.

“It was a big race at home and it was great to see us respond after they took the lead,” said Arenado, who raced home in the second half. “I feel like I’m in the first half… It was hard for us to get back there. It was really nice to see us fight and work in shifts against these massive bowlers. I got really excited because we went upstairs. We needed that.”

“It was one of the most memorable games I’ve ever played here,” DeJong said. “I’ve had so much fun since I came back and I’m enjoying every day here.”