St. Louis Cardinals Rally With Four Runs After Two Outs in the Ninth to Beat Washington

All, Baseball Jason Lisk October 13th. 2012, 12:35am

The Washington Nationals had a 6-0 lead in Game 5, but if we’ve learned anything over the last year, it’s that you cannot put away the Cardinals. They won the wildcard game, and then they rallied here when it looked desperate. They slowly climbed back in the game, and when Daniel Descalso hit a home run in the eighth inning, they pulled within a run.

The Nationals got another run in the bottom of the inning, to make it a two run margin going to the last inning. Drew Storen, pitching for the third game in a row, came in to try to close it. Carlos Beltran led off with a double, then Storen got Holliday and Craig. Down to two strikes and two outs, Yadier Molina and David Freese both worked walks to load the bases. Then Descalso again came up with a sharp hit off the diving glove of Ian Desmond. With Washington still stunned, Peter Kozma then hit a single down the right field line that scored the winning runs.

[photo via US Presswire]

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25 Responses to “St. Louis Cardinals Rally With Four Runs After Two Outs in the Ninth to Beat Washington”

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A.P. Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 12:37 AM
DIAF St. Louis
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Some Random Old Dude Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 12:41 AM
Too many bases on balls. Erratic fielding. This stinks. I need a cheeseburger.
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#pettycowards Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 12:45 AM
with hemlock fries. embarrasing
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#pettycowards Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 12:46 AM
if only strasburg was there for the ninth
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RAT-Man Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 12:46 AM
Their bullpens has being bad all year. Tonight it imploded at the absolutely worst time for them.
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Full Point (1000) Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 12:51 AM
watched it live and then the highlights. not sure how that happened.
they just won’t die
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MeandWillieMcGee Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 12:58 AM
But…but….the ratings? What were the ratings?????
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808 Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 1:25 AM
i still don’t know what just happened
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Chief Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 1:43 AM
Baseball is the best.
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JaiAlai Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 1:50 AM
Just got home from seeing Sinister with the lady. Only happy for the Cards because it increases the chances of the Tigs getting a ring
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VladimirCrouton Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 3:09 AM
Only happy for the Cards because it increases the chances of the Tigs getting a ring
Dummy. If the Cards make the WS against the Tigers they will beat them.
It’s Science.
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bsanders37 Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 5:03 AM
Eat the caca, haters.
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Some Random Old Dude Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 6:14 AM
Vez, I can always count on you to bring the funny.
if only strasburg was there for the ninth
Seriously, wouldn’t that have been cool last night? Have him stride out of the bullpen at the first sign of trouble in the 9th? The park would’ve exploded.
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arkbadger Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Go Cards!
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Caribou Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Unbelievable finish to last nites game. My friend left the bar we were at cause he wanted to watch the game by himself. He’s a Nats fan and he’s superstitious and said the last games they won he was at home watching it by himself. But I also told him “you were at game 3 and saw it live and they got whacked”. I stayed at the bar and drank and thought when they had the 6 run lead they were golden. I better call him this morning, he might have hung himself.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
if only strasburg was there for the ninth
Had he not been shut down he would have been starting a game five though right? And he didn’t pitch past the eighth once the entire season? I look forward to TBL’s forthcoming post about how Strasburg would have pitched a complete game shutout.
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agoodfella Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
<a href="The Nats postseason ERA was a dead last 6.14 — a full 2 points higher than the next highest, SF at 4.11. Compare these miserable stats to the regular season when the Nats posted the second best ERA in the bigs and the most wins in baseball.
So let’s get fucking real, Strasburg — even on limited pitches — would have absolutely been the difference between the Nats going out in the first round loser vs. a very deep run (possibly a title?)
If they never get this close to post season glory over the next few seasons, the decision to shut down Strasburg will haunt this franchise like Steve Bartman.
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agoodfella Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Link fail:
http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sortable.jsp?c_id=mlb&tcid=mm_mlb_stats#elem=%5Bobject+Object%5D&tab_level=child&click_text=Sortable+Team+pitching&sectionType=st&statType=pitching&page=1&ts=1350134348598&game_type='P'&timeframe=
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Some Random Old Dude Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Strasburg — even on limited pitches — would have absolutely been the difference between the Nats going out in the first round loser vs. a very deep run (possibly a title?)
Maybe.
Howeva, the team on the field last night was good enough to win that game. Desmond had his worst game of the year in the field. Gio & Storen pitched timidly, like they were afraid of pitching to contact.
Don’t forget, Holliday and Craig made outs before the 9th inning runs scored. And, there were 2-strike counts on Molina & Freese before each drew walks.
Your closer on the mound in the 9th, a strike away from a win on consecutive hitters, with a home crowd cheering wildly.
Last night came down to execution.
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golfercraig Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 11:38 AM
So let’s get fucking real, Strasburg — even on limited pitches — would have absolutely been the difference between the Nats going out in the first round loser vs. a very deep run (possibly a title?)
If they never get this close to post season glory over the next few seasons, the decision to shut down Strasburg will haunt this franchise like Steve Bartman.
Or, with someone other than Jim Joyce behind the plate, giving Detwiler the Greg Maddux strike zone, they lose, just like they did anyway. I mean, it’s not like Strasburg was getting strafed at the end of the season. Oh wait, he was? How many pitches did he throw in the 7th inning this year? It’s weird how the teams that play the Cards end up with high ERA’s year after year in the postseason. So, clearly Jackson and Zimmerman were going to lose anyway. And you think Strasburg would have won 2 games. That leaves Gio. You sure you trust him? I wouldn’t after his total inability to throw strikes.
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BFFredo Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Thing is, starting from the 6th, you could see the Cards were mounting their comeback. It almost felt inevitable that they were going to put up runs in the 7th, 8th and specially in the 9th. So it behooved the Nats to keep scoring. They didn’t put up more than an extra run and that was all she wrote.
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Jay V Of Considerable Influence Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 2:00 PM
So let’s get fucking real, Strasburg — even on limited pitches — would have absolutely been the difference between the Nats going out in the first round loser vs. a very deep run (possibly a title?)
False.
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#pettycowards Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 2:49 PM
i was just stirring the pot fellas. srod was right in 19. they got to the verge w/o strasburg. they fucking choked and the cards were amazing
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newmaniumreveler Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 3:23 PM
The other obvious problem with the Strasburg argument is that with Stras, the 4 starters would have been Stras, Gio, Jackson, and Zimmermann. You lose Detwiler, the guy who had the best start in the rotation against the Cards this series. Maybe Stras is so good that his mere presence as a starter would have kept Jackson and Zimmermann from getting shelled, but I’d like to see the Jason Lisk multivariate regression analysis showing that Stras’s goodness is so star-spangled awesome that it spills over to to another pitcher’s starts. The Nats and Cards saw each other a lot in September, and when the Cards won, they won big. Anyone paying attention could have foreseen some trouble ahead for the Nats.
I don’t post here a lot, but I was at the game last night, and I am still kind of in shock.
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MeandWillieMcGee Says:
October 13th, 2012 at 4:45 PM
Of greater interest than Strasburg is why the Nats shut down Harper for the first four games.
Oh wait…screw that guy.