What Time Was The Cardinals Game Today

So you've asked Siri, your mate Dave, and a suspiciously confident bloke at the pub: what time was the Cardinals game today? And now you're here, still none the wiser, with a cold cuppa and a vague sense that the answer involves Arizona, St Louis, and a time zone that hates you personally. Let's sort this out, Aussie style, before you accidentally set an alarm for the wrong century.

What Time Was the Cardinals Game Today? Depends Which Cardinals You Mean

Aerial view of Villefranche-sur-Mer and the bay, looking like a peaceful place to avoid time zone maths

If you mean the St Louis Cardinals in MLB, today's first pitch was most likely 6:45pm Central Time. For those playing at home in Australia, that's 9:45am AEST the next day, 9:15am ACST, or 7:45am AWST. If it was a Sunday arvo game, it might've been 1:15pm CT, which translates to a brutal 4:15am AEST, 3:45am ACST, or 2:15am AWST. If you mean the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL, their games usually kick off at 1:05pm or 4:25pm Mountain Time. In Australia, that's 6:05am or 9:25am AEST the next day, 5:35am or 8:55am ACST, and 4:05am or 7:25am AWST. So the real answer is: it was on at a time that required either an alarm clock or a complete disregard for your sleep schedule.

Why the Cardinals Game Time Is a Beautiful, Confusing Mess

Beach at Villefranche-sur-Mer with clear water, ideal for pretending you didn't miss the first innings

Daylight saving is the villain here. Most of Australia springs forward, Arizona refuses to play that game, and the US clocks change on a different weekend to ours. Chuck in MLB's random afternoon starts, NFL flex scheduling, and the fact that "today" in Australia is often "yesterday" in America, and you've got a recipe for missing the first three innings while arguing with a streaming app. If you're in Sydney or Melbourne, the gap from US Central Time is usually 15 hours. In Perth, it's