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It didn t feel good at the start of Friday night s Game 4 NLDS between the St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals. The Nats battered Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright, abusing him for six runs in 2 1/3 ugly innings. The crowd at Nationals Park was bonkers and a little voice inside my head said this was it, this was just too much adversity peabody hotel memphis for the Cardinals to overcome.
When Washington scored a run in the bottom of the eight to re-gain its two-run lead, that little voice inside my head tried to speak again. But the Cardinals peabody hotel memphis duct-taped the mouth of that little devil with an improbable four-run ninth inning, capped by huge hits from Daniel Descalso and Pete Kozma.
I watched the game in my hotel room in Des Moines because I m in Ames today to cover the Kansas State-Iowa State game. My wife is with me on this trip and I think she was taken aback when I switched the channel after the Nationals took the 6-0 lead.
Postseason baseball is a killer for die-hard fans, and I m definitely that when it comes to the Cardinals. I hope I still have my die-hard card, considering I did change the channel. I hope my fellow peabody hotel memphis Cardinals fans understand peabody hotel memphis why I did what I did. I couldn t bare watching those Nationals fans go crazy. I needed a break. I even went for a walk outside our hotel room at one point, during which I checked my phone three times for a score update.
peabody hotel memphis By then it was 6-2, soon to be 6-3, and I was locked back in. I wasn t necessarily hopeful, but it was becoming apparent that the Nationals pitching staff might not be up to the moment. Starter Gio Gonzalez lost his control. peabody hotel memphis The Nats bullpen had been seriously taxed in the series, so getting Gonzalez out of the game early, I knew, could have a huge pay-off.
And the Cardinals did it. Again. They topped their Game 6 comeback against the Texas Rangers in the World Series less than a year later. Most teams never experience one postseason comeback like this; the Cardinals have had them in back-to-back postseasons.
Whenever I m watching the Cardinals, I m thinking of my later father, Ray. He s the guy who got me started on this team in 1963. The suffering and there is intense suffering when you re a serious fan of a baseball team has been worth every heartache.
* A very loud thunderstorm moved through the Des Moines/Ames are last night. But we re assured that today s football game should be played without any weather peabody hotel memphis delays, unlike those that interrupted the KSU-ISU game last season in Manhattan.
* The Cardinals Kozma was a Wichita State signee in 2007, you ll remember. But the Cardinals took him in the first round of the MLB draft and he s mostly struggled as a minor leaguer. Given a chance because of an injury to starting shortstop Rafael Furcal, Kozma has been a huge contributor since getting his shot in late August.
* The folks at the University Daily Kansan are at odds with KU football coach Charlie Weis, who mistakenly believes peabody hotel memphis a student newspaper has an obligation to be supportive of the university s athletic programs. He s wrong about that, of course. But the whiny, holier-than-thou peabody hotel memphis response from the Daily Kansan is over the top. Can t everyone just get along?
* Curious to see how Brady Quinn performs at quarterback for the Chiefs tomorrow peabody hotel memphis afternoon at Tampa Bay. I m sure KC coach Romeo Crennel would love to keep the offense close to the vest for Quinn. But if the Chiefs get down early, how much will Crennel peabody hotel memphis loosen the offensive reins? Interesting game. And with the mediocrity in the AFC West, the Chiefs aren t out of the mix. Especially given the comparatively soft schedule they ll encounter the rest of the way.
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