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Oct. 10, 2009
The End.
If you don't care about baseball, feel free to skip this post. I'm venting my fanatical devotion to the Cardinals and then you won't hear anything else about it till March.
It was a pathetic way to end a pathetic post-season attempt. When Rick Ankiel struck out to end the ninth inning, the St. Louis Cardinals were eliminated from post-season play. I have to admit that while I had high hopes that the Cardinals and the Red Sox would face off in the World Series - I have high hopes about everything, regardless of practicality - after how we performed in the past two games I am disappointed but not surprised to see us fall for a third time in a row.
I've been following the Cardinals very closely this season, as anyone who knows me well could tell you. To say their offense has been stagnant would be an understatement. To say it's been grossly inadequate might come close to the truth. It's really quite sad... at least two of the games we lost, Dad's team (the Red Sox) would have won - we lacked run support. We ALWAYS lack run support. *sigh*
Admittedly, I can't say that our defeat was due only to our deficient offense (which can definitely be partially attributed to Albert Pujols' month-long slump). Chris Carpenter, one of STL's two aces and my personal favorite pitcher, was definitely not at his sharpest during game one. Why is it that the only time I can watch him on TV he pitches poorly? Mom says it's because the cameras make him nervous, but somehow I'm not sure that's it. Adam Wainwright was brilliant in game two - three hits, one run, no walks over eight innings - and definitely should have got a win. He was denied that pleasure by Ryan Franklin's less-than-stellar pitching and Matt Holliday's fielding bloop that cost us a run. Franklin did redeem himself tonight, tossing a scoreless inning, and the fans gave Matt Holliday a standing ovation his first at-bat, demonstrating that they weren't going to reject him even though he'd committed an error at just about the worst possible time. Pinero was average tonight but worse than he usually is, and - as is the case all year - didn't get any encouragement from the offense.
So... sorry, Cardinals. I guess we just didn't have quite enough this time. Better luck next year. In the meantime, the next-best matchup for the World Series is the Red Sox and the Phillies - de ja vu - and it's Boston's turn to win this time. So you can bet that tomorrow I'll be rooting for the Sox to win. It'd be kinda sad for neither of the teams I care about to make it to the championship.
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