Cardinals move one step closer

On October 12th, 2012 the Cardinals had one of their most essential and miraculous wins of the season. They were in game five of the NLCS matchups with the Washington Nationals. They didn’t have the home field advantage, yet the crowd was wearing all red.

The first few innings started off slow for the Cardinals as they were making solid contact. The nationals on the other hand were hot, they almost seemed untouchable. Homeruns and base hits allowed the score to grow to 4-0 Nationals. The crowd loved every minute of it and giving the nationals more moral to earn more runs.

At the fifth inning the score was 6-0. The cardinals had 12 outs to gain enough runs to either tie the game up or pull ahead. A six run deficit is a hard one to bounce back from. The bats were still not making the right contact for their team. But in the 6^th inning people started getting on base and they made their climb back to the top. The cardinals were getting many men on base but didn’t seem to be able to make them cross home plate. Between the 5-7^thinnings there were about 8 players left on the bases that could have been scored.

The pitcher for the cardinals was starting to slip up and walking people in to give the cardinals come runs, this gave them the spark that they needed. The bats started to crank by the time it was the 8^th inning the cardinals had earned 4 runs making it more possible to have the win in their reach. Their defense was on fire and had to keep having 1-2-3 out innings with 0 errors. The ninth inning rolls around and all hell breaks loose. The cardinals have been in scoring position, second and third base, and then they get a hit to right field that brings those men in. They had tied the game!

From personally watching the game and rooting for the cardinals it was humorous to see the crowd go completely flat once we tied it up. The energy was gone. The nationals on their toes, they still had to make three outs. The cardinals took complete advantage of their vulnerability and ended up scoring three more runs! The score was now 9-6. All they had to do was shut the nationals out with three outs and they had the win. The nationals came back to gain one more run, but sadly that wasn’t enough to get ahead.

The cardinals are moving on to the next game in the series on their way to the World Series for the 12^thyear in a row. Hopefully they can take this energy from this great comeback and squash the giants! (460)