Article: CARPENTER, CARDINALS HAMMER OUT VICTORY

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.

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