MLB.com: Cardinals drop opener after Martinez walks 7

The Cardinals acknowledge that momentum is not going to experience a groundswell by chance, that their season will not take an about-face by waiting for their injured masses to return from the shelf and that the time to strike — with seven consecutive games against last-place teams — is now.

But they’re going to have to wait at least one day longer to see any such tides turn.

A day of tinkering, in front of the largest crowd at Busch