St. Louis Cardinals lose to set up winning their way

St. Louis Cardinals lose, thus setting up a way to win their own way

Obviously, the Cards were not going to close it out without drama. They need to be in game 7, and they need to be behind by several runs with two outs in the ninth until God decides to intervene.

OK, I admit that St. Louis /Detroit would be a classic World Series.

They played in 1934. The Cards won in seven when the amazing Dizzy Dean shut out the Tigers in game 7. The Dean brothers won two games each in that match-up.

They played in 1968. The Tigers won on the back of Mickey Lolich, who tied the all-time record with three wins in the same Series, including one in game seven when he outpitched the great Bob Gibson. That was the year that Denny McLain became the last thirty-game winner, but McLain won only one in the Series, with two defeats. Thanks to Lolich, McLain's one win was just enough.

They played in 2006. The Cardinals kicked ass that time. Although they had the poorest regular season record of any World Series winner (83-78), they easily bested the Tigers. They took it four games to one, and two of their wins came against a young Verlander. Mister Verlander was a completely different pitcher then, already a star with a 17-9 record, but nowhere near the dominating superstar we have seen in the past two years. He had only 124 strikeouts in 186 innings that year, and there was nothing superlative about his WHIP (1.33) or his ERA (3.63).

So, I'd look forward to that match-up, and I actually like the Cardinals, but their miracles are really starting to annoy me, so I'm going to be pulling for the Giants in game seven.