Last night I put up a post declaring the Texas Rangers World Series Champions after 7 innings. I wanted to get a top spot on Google in the event that the Rangers hung onto win game 6.
Well, that didn’t turn out the way I wanted.
Give the Cards credit though. They refused to die and won probably the greatest WS game ever played in game 6. This is two years in a row I rooted for Texas, and for the second straight year they came up short. That’s baseball, anything can happen.
The Sporting News
When Jason Motte retired David Murphy on a fly to left Friday night, the St. Louis Cardinals had a 6-2 victory over the Rangers and an unprecedented two-month run to the top of the baseball world.
Now they should have time to reflect on their historic journey to the franchise's 11th World Series championship, the most of any club that resides outside of Yankee Stadium. Making history at nearly every turn, the Cardinals will have plenty to reflect.
Among the highlights:
• World Series MVP David Freese became the first player to drive in 21 runs in a single postseason. Freese wasted no time delivering his clutch hit in Game 7, driving a two-run double to the left-center fence in the first inning after the Texas Rangers had jumped ahead 2-0.
• Chris Carpenter became the franchise's all-time leader in postseason wins, with his nine two more than Bob Gibson (who had only the World Series to get his). Carpenter fittingly was the winner in the clincher when he limited the Rangers to two first-inning runs before leaving in the sixth with the Cardinals up 5-2.
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If the Cards can pull off an improbable World Series run, why not my beloved Mets do the same next year?
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