July 5, 1942 at Sportsman's Park — Cardinals 11, Cubs 6. Stan Musial is 21, Mort Cooper is en route to the NL MVP, and St. Louis is on its way to a 106-48 franchise-best season and a World Series title. Two-minute snapshot of the summer Musial arrived. (Auto-recut round 1: intro/outro music added.)

July 4, 1982 at Busch Stadium: Cardinals 7, Cubs 2. John Stuper goes seven strong, Bruce Sutter closes for save number eighteen, and Lonnie Smith scores four times — in the summer Whitey Herzog's machine ran all the way to October and St. Louis's first World Series title since nineteen sixty-seven.

On June 26, 1968, Bob Gibson shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates 3–0 — nine innings, four hits, no walks — for his fifth straight shutout, in the middle of the most untouchable season a pitcher has ever thrown. This is the night the zeros stopped feeling like luck and started feeling like a law of physics. A two-voice walk back through one date on the Cardinals calendar, from the Year of the Pitcher.