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Article: CARPENTER, CARDINALS HAMMER OUT VICTORY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2005
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ST. LOUIS His cute little boy Sam was tugging at his hand
shouting, "Daddy, Daddy!" as Chris Carpenter left the interview room
at Busch Stadium last night not long after the Cardinals righthander
led St. Louis over Houston, 5-3, in Game 1 of the National League
Championship Series.
His family, including his wife Alyson and a bunch of family
members from Bedford, N.H., watched as Carpenter continued his
incredible season with eight lights-out innings, in which he allowed
only a two-run homer to Astros pinch hitter Chris Burke.
They were all smiles. And why not? Carpenter even had a couple of
nifty bunts to his credit, including a perfectly executed suicide
squeeze in the second inning.
"I ...