Rookie shortstop Pete Kozma moved to his right, only to watch the line drive off Hunter Pence's broken bat inexplicably change directions when the shattered barrel hit the ball a second and then third time. Three runs scored on a strange double that just about summed up the final three games of the NL championship series when almost everything went wrong for St. Louis, costing the defending champion Cardinals a return trip to the World Series. Kyle Lohse failed to make it out of the third inning, the Cardinals' bats fell into a cold spell at the worst possible time and St. Louis was eliminated from the postseason with a 9-0 loss to the San Francisco Giants in Game 7 on Monday night. "Not a...
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