It’s been famously noted that the postseason is a crapshoot. While there is definitely some truth to that statement, for the St. Louis Cardinals the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers brought both old and new reasons for a hasty exit from October.
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There’s no doubt that the unexpected occurred in this series. After the Cardinals struck first for a run in the top of the first in Game 1, they handed the ball to Chris Carpenter. Some nights, one run for Carp would hold up for nine innings. In this game, it didn’t survive two batters.
If that had been the extent of it, the Cardinals were still in the ballgame. However, Carpenter didn’t have the stuff that put him in the discussion for the Cy Young Award. If your ace is allowing five runs, it makes it much harder to win. The Dodgers tried to help, as the Cardinal offense continued to put runners on, but it was a situation of “bending but not breaking.”
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