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After a whole two days without baseball, the World Series is upon us. Whether the St. Louis Cardinals or Texas Rangers ultimately win, it would be nice if we had a long series for once. Only one of the last seven World Series have gone as many as six games:
- 2004: Boston Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals
- 2005: Chicago White Sox swept the Houston Astros
- 2006: St. Louis Cardinals beat the Detroit Tigers in five games
- 2007: Boston Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies
- 2008: Philadelphia Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays in five games
- 2009: New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies in six games
- 2010: the Texas Rangers lost in five games
The aces for both teams — Chris Carpenter for St. Louis and C.J. Wilson for Texas — will start tonight. Before that, the Cardinals will have the three pitchers who were on the mound to record the final out of their last four World Series championships — Bob Gibson (1964, 1967), Bruce Sutter (1982), and Adam Wainwright (2006) — throw out the ceremonial first pitches at Busch Stadium.
Lineups
Rangers | Cardinals | |||
2B | Kinsler | SS | Furcal | |
SS | Andrus | CF | Jay | |
CF | Hamilton | 1B | Pujols | |
1B | Young | LF | Holliday | |
3B | Beltre | RF | Berkman | |
RF | Cruz | 3B | Freese | |
C | Napoli | C | Molina | |
LF | Murphy | 2B | Punto | |
P | Wilson | P | Carpenter |
Game Time: 5:05 p.m.
TV: Fox
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