![]() ![]() I’m not going to be an idiot and trash their entire season because of a sorry performance in the World Series.ģ: For the second consecutive season, the Cardinals became unglued with a championship on the line, and it’s confounding and frustrating. On a personal level, you could feel good about supporting the ’13 Cardinals. They were a likable team that always tried to play the game the right way. The Cardinals extended the winning tradition of an esteemed franchise. Including the postseason the 2013 Cardinals won 106 games, more in a season than all but four Cards’ teams in franchise history. They won their 19th NL pennant, and their fourth in the last 10 seasons. ![]() The Cardinals put away the Dodgers after a contentious NL championship series. They battled back from a potential elimination at Pittsburgh to overtake the Pirates in the NL division series. They played fantastic baseball down the stretch to win 97 games and rule NL Central. Whenever I have a poor outing like that, it hurts me even worse.”Ģ: The Cardinals had a great season. I wanted to win it for these guys in this clubhouse who have been working their tail off all year. “Everyone on this club wants that (championship) ring,” Wacha said. But Wacha wasn’t feeling it Wednesday night. As they say in show business, a star is born. Watching Wacha work was the most exciting aspect of this (mostly) magical October. The Cardinals wouldn’t have reached the World Series without him. Wacha faced 21 batters in Game 6, and gave up six earned runs. After a magnificent postseason run he finally ran out of gas, and encountered an opponent he could not conquer. It was all too much for them: the startling demise of their offense, the forcefulness of the brasher and more intelligent Red Sox, the cacophony of historic Fenway Park, and the quick dissolution of their own confidence.ġ: Obviously, it wasn’t Wacha’s night. Louis, the Cardinals put up little resistance in Game 6. After relinquishing this series by losing Games 4 and 5 in St. The Cardinals were finished because they could not handle the inherent pressure of knowing that their season was slipping away, and that they couldn’t handle the bully-boy Red Sox. The Cardinals were finished early because their bats went missing over the final three games of the World Series, the same way they inexplicably vanished during their staggering collapse over the final three games of the 2012 NL championship series. The depressing result was an anti-climactic 6-1 victory that gave the Red Sox their first World Series triumph celebrated on the home grounds of baseball’s living history museum since 1918. There was some official business to take care of, and the Red Sox proceeded to embarrass a Cardinals team that physically flew to Boston while mentally staying in St. The Cardinals were of no mind to crash this party. The festive crowd chanted and sang and never sat down. Game 6 was over long before the nightly ballpark karaoke to “Sweet Caroline” filled Fenway Park with song and merriment. It was only the third inning, but the Cardinals were done. ![]() ![]() That’s when Shane Victorino brought an end to rookie pitcher Michael Wacha’s untouchable, invincible October by clearing the bases with a three-run double that became the first pop of champagne. BOSTON - The Red Sox clinched the 2013 World Series at around five minutes after 9 p.m., eastern standard time. ![]()
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