GAME 7 DIARY.

The following is what I typed as I watched from inning 7 on. All I'll promise you is I only corrected spelling errors. Everything else is a present sense impression. Enjoy.

Hope spings eternal as Taguchi takes the field in the top of the 7th. Can’t ask more out of Suppan. 100 pitches here in the bottom of the 8th, and he’s still going at it.
Wagner loosening in the Mets pen. Oh for Suppan to keep this 1-1.

Suppan goes 3-1 to Beltran. The third ball looked like a strike. Come on Jeff. But it isn’t to be, and Suppan walks Beltran to start the 8th. There goes our advantage. Not his fault, but you wonder if we’ve taken out the only Cardinal who really was plugged into tonight’s game.

For the 700th time, I endure someone failing to see a golf ball in a commercial you can see on some tv I don’t have and can’t afford.

It just feels like this is it. The Cards should be ahead. Rolen choked on that Homer At Bat, though. Should have hit it 6 inches further.

Now Delgado hits against Flores. Where is Tyler Johnson? Isn’t he the best lefty? Is this puzzling move going to work as well as all of TLR’s others?

Nice battle by Flores. 2-2 pitch. Please? AND HE WENT AROUND.

Could go with Kinney here. TLR is not doing it. At this point, I’m not questioning anything he does. Of course, Flores makes me nervous against lefties, let alone All-Star Third Basemen.

It’s 2-0 to Wright. Now 3-1 to Wright. Will Flores actually throw a strike? Gotta be something nasty. That strike will do. Now how about a strike’em out throw’em out dp.

I’ll take the K. AND IT’S A FAIR BALL TO PUJOLS. END OF THE INNING.

Amazing Pitching by our squad.

Is this the last at-bat for Jimmy in a Cardinal Uniform?

Now Rolen. The Man who was robbed. No way he has two HR in him.

Of course, the only way to end this year is with a Homer from Yadier. An inside the park homer.
Let’s see what Rolen does. How was that not strike 3?

And what a night by Rolen. Amazing Single.

(At this point, you really need to go read the open thread in the blog. At 10:24, with a witness, I called the Yadier at-bat.)

Is this the sort of night when moving Yadier makes the difference?

OH MY.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

A HOMER BY WHO? YADIER?????

It’s now 3-1.

And we’re handing the ball to Wainwright.

A bloop by Valentin? Really? Can this series end any other way?

Single by Chavez. Two on? I’m a shell. Now you face Floyd.

WHAT A K. Amazing job by Wainwright. Gotta love how he’s toughing this out.

GET REYES.

1-2 pitch…….nice foul by Reyes. I would love to have him on my team. Crazy good player. Yikes. Thanks Jimmy for catching that.

One bloop, one hit; one line drive, one out. One out from a World Series. No one but Beltran can be on deck.

This is insane.

GO ADAM.

Ball 1. Do we have to face our Beltran demon to go to the WS?

Strike 1 on a cutter. McCarver notices that Adam throws a slider from time to time. Obviously never saw Adam pitch.

Cutter low. 2-1. Gotta get LoDuca, and LoDuca has to know it. Need an out here.

High. 3-1. This is excruciating.

How was that a ball. And a walk to LoDuca. Proof that God is a baseball fan....with a sense of humor.

So we have to go through Beltran. Bases loaded. 2 Outs. Bottom of the ninth. A rookie on the hill.
The only way this series can end.

A batting practise fastball for 0-1. Come on Adam.

A foul for 0-2.

Think he’ll see a curve here?

YES.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS TEAM IS AN NL PENNANT WINNER?

Tony moves Yadier to number 7 in the lineup, and he hits the homer. I don’t know what to say.

The Cards win the pennant. Those were my realtime thoughts…..

I’ve written a check for a game 5 World Series ticket. I think someone just cashed a $200 check. Speechless.