St Louis Cardinals Win World Series With 6-2 Victory over Texas Rangers

The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Texas Rangers 6—2 Friday night to win their 11th World Series.

The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Texas Rangers 6–2 Friday night to win their 11th World Series. Game Six six hero David Freese led the way with a pair of RBIs in the first inning to give him a postseason-record 21 this fall. Freese hit .348 in the seven-game World Series to claim MVP honors.

The Rangers, after blowing two-run leads in the ninth and tenth innings in Game Six, showed no ill effects of the crushing defeat—at least in the top of the first—touching St. Louis starter Chris Carpenter for two runs. But Freese answered with a two-RBI double in the bottom of the inning—his third straight extra base hit—to tie the game.

The game was still close by the fifth inning—Texas trailed 3–2—before the Rangers’ pitching imploded.

St. Louis scored two runs on a walk, a hit batsmen, a sacrifice, and then another walk (intentional) to load the bases for Yadier Molina who walked as well, making it 4–2.

The wild pitching prompted a change on the mound as C.J. Wilson came in relief of starter Matt Harrison. New pitcher, same result though for Texas as Wilson promptly plunked Cardinals’ shortstop Rafael Furcal to make it 5–2. St. Louis did not have a hit or even hit the ball out of the infield the entire inning in plating two runners.

But the Cards had all the runs they needed already as Texas mustered no more against starter Chris Carpenter.

The 36-year-old veteran went six innings yielding just those two first-inning runs before giving way to the bullpen. St. Louis relievers Arthur Rhodes, Octavio Dotel, Lance Lynn, and Jason Motte retired all nine Ranger hitters in slamming the door on Texas.