I take it you've been on the receiving end of some fresh WS abuse from your old frat buddies?

And Dave Szott wasn't holding:)

And Gonzalez was inbounds.

And Missouri HELD ON FOURTH DOWN.

Gotta give it up to TLR. Every move he made worked out.:thumb:

Can't express enough. Stl having home field is huge. It's a fair ballpark.

Texas won't be able to crank as many homeruns in Stl and I think in Texas Stl can match their power.

Go Cards!

Damn I am still jealous of the Tank 7.

Don't wash the shirt. Just don't. New series needs new mojo.

Or Davidson didn't kick the ball.

This! With Garcia pitching tommorrow, we are going to need all the positive mojo we have to appease the karma gods.

Ya let's hope Garcia doesn't shit the bed tomorrow.

Hell of a game. Hell of a game. That Texas lineup just absolutely scares the shit out of me.

Yadi hosing Kinsler and Carp's diving tag of the base were huge momentum plays early.

Aside from Napoli's mammoth bomb, there weren't too many balls hit very hard. The two balls hit hardest by St. Louis were both off of Freese's bat.

I think that we did a very good job of taking pitches early. Our hitters looked comfortable and relaxed, and they put a fair amount of stress on Wilson, who was effectively wild for most of the night.

It looks like the Beltre ground out in the 9th was a good break, and the bullpen was nails tonight save for:

Rhodes, who still absolutely terrifies me. He can't throw strikes with any consistency
Salas, whose arm just looks worn out. He was topping out at 89-90 as opposed to 92 in the LCS, and his pitches were all over the middle of the plate.

Dotel and Rzepczynski were awesome tonight, and Motte slammed the ****in' door. NO MORE!!

Winning that first game is always a big relief, but we proved in the last two series that it's not an absolute must. However, given that Jaime Mulder is up tomorrow, you had to think that we were in desperate need of a win tonight, and Carp had just enough, and Master Allen came through in the clutch.

Damned good win.

He is Going to go 4 and give up 3 or go 7 and give up 1.

That's him in a nutshell at home.

I don't expect greatness but he is due a good home game.

Let us pray.

Ya it seems about his 3rd time through the lineup he gets rocked hard.

I think the fact Texas has never seen Garcia helps.

He seems to struggle more when teams have seen him before.

Excellent point.

One thing that I'm glad about: No excessive rain delay tonight. I was terrified that we were going to get 2-3 innings and and then Carp would be forced out by an extended rain delay, further taxing our pen.

One thing that pissed me off: Jay bunting Furcal over to 2nd, thus taking the bat out of Albert's hands.