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Article: Cards win home run derby
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2002
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Cards win home run derby -- Overcome Bonds' blast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 10-13-2002, Sunday
Section: SPORTS
Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday
SAN FRANCISCO - The St. Louis Cardinals held the San Francisco Giants
at bay - barely.
Three St. Louis homers that just cleared the wall behind Barry Bonds
in left field overcame his own prodigious shot into McCovey Cove and
gave the Cardinals a 5-4 victory Saturday that cut San Francisco's
lead to 2-1 in the NL championship series.
"I know we had to win today to make it a series," Cardinals manager
Tony La Russa said. "If you go down 3-0, it would be really tough
to come back. With a win, we made it a ...