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St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter answers questions during a news conference Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 in San Francisco. The Cardinals face the San Francisco Giants in Game 6 of the National League championship baseball series Sunda. Carpenter is slated to be the starting pitcher. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) |
Cardinals forced to make another trip out West
By JANIE McCAULEY
AP Baseball Writer /
October 20, 2012
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San Francisco, which made an improbable run to the 2010 World Series title, hopes to send St. Louis out of town empty-handed. The Giants won the NLCS in five games at their waterfront ballpark against the Cardinals in 2002 before falling short in a seven-game Series to the wild-card Angels.
The Detroit Tigers are waiting on their opponent after a four-game ALCS sweep of the New York Yankees.
Not that Bochy or Cardinals manager Mike Matheny can even think that far in advance, just yet.
‘‘I don’t necessarily see them as pesky as much as just talented,’’ Matheny said of the Giants. ‘‘And the same kind of makeup that we have, they aren’t going to go away and neither are we. And we knew that going into this thing. As soon as we won a couple of games at home there was nobody in there for a second under the belief that this was going to be a team that was going to just roll over. So we know that this team has the ability to do what they did, once again, in Cincinnati, running in there and doing something that hasn’t been done all season. ... It’s just a matter of execution, and they executed better than us yesterday.’’
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