Sunday Night Game Postponed Due to the Death of Josh Hancock

Sunday night's game between the Cardinals and the Cubs has been postponed due to the death of Cardinals' reliever Josh Hancock who was killed in an automobile crash early Sunday morning. The 29-year old reliever for the Cardinals was killed on westbound Highway 64/40 within the city limits according to a report on Cubs.com.

This tragic event will remind many of the death of Darryl Kile in 2002 that Joe Girardi announced to the crowd at Wrigley Field. Everyone here at the CCO sends out our thoughts and prayers to the Hancock family and friends.

The St. Louis Cardinals have scheduled a press conference at 3:00pm today to release further details.

Update - According to several reports out of St. Louis and on XM Radio by Holden Kushner and Ronnie Lane, Josh Hancock was traveling "alone in his 2007 Ford Explorer when he struck the rear of a tow truck at 12:35am. The truck was in the left lane assisting another vehicle that was involved in a prior accident and he was pronounced dead at the scene."

Josh Hancock pitched in Saturday's game against the Cubs and gave up a run on 2 hits in 3 innings of work. Hancock pitched for the Boston Red Sox, the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds before signing last off-season with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Anthony

To all, I sincerely agree with all your sentiments. May God Bless the Hancock family in their time of distress and need. Life is indeed fragile and news like this reminds us all of what is truly important in our lifes.

Agustin Rexach

Hard day for the Cardinals and LaRussa. Sad to hear about this.

Even though I truthfully dislike the Cardinals, this has nothing to do with baseball and this is a hard hit for all his family and teammates.

I'll take this time to say I have a lot of respect for that manager who won't allow stupidity, such as the incident on Friday with the newspaper and will allways work to preserve the good game of baseball. He also is one of the best in the buisness and demands respect from his players. He was not happy with Pujols comments about Marquis either. To me that is respect for the game.

Ok now let's work our winning streak up to 10! Go Cubs!

Cory

I just got back to Des Moines from St. Louis. I was at the Cubs Cards game yesterday and wanted to tell you about it but an hour outta town this morning I heard the tragic news about that poor kid. Now all I have to say is that I just saw him pitch last night and now he's gone at only 29. Being a father of four I can't imagine what his family is going through and my prayers are with them. Finally, say what you will about LaRusa but I hope to God I never have to call someone's father and tell them their son is dead. That had to have been aweful.