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Last Week: 5-1

With the best record in baseball, and after two more series wins last week, the St. Louis Cardinals are again the No. 1 team in the league as we enter the month of June.

The big story last week was the loss of first baseman Matt Adams for 3-4 months with a torn quad, but the team has a decent in-house replacement in Mark Reynolds. It's not as though Adams was carrying the offense with a .243 average and .656 OPS, anyway.

Instead, the bigger story should be the way Carlos Martinez has been throwing the ball of late, as he is working on a streak of 20.1 scoreless innings.

That included a gem Sunday, when he allowed just one hit over seven shutout innings on the day the Cardinals honored the life of his teammate and good friend Oscar Taveras on the anniversary of his debut.

This team just keeps winning games, and it will look to hold onto the No. 1 spot when it takes on the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers.

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