Incredibly, after overcoming not only my February tweet that they would be missing the playoffs because of Adam Wainwright's Tommy John surgery, not only being out 10 1/2 games at the end of August, but also me picking against them in BOTH the NLDS and NLCS, the St. Louis Cardinals are going to the World Series. And in a surprise to no one, least of all myself, my theory again held in Game 6, which the Cards won 12-6 - although, in the interest of full disclosure, I once again blew the pick (Brew Crew in 7). Sunday night's stats are below.
STL: 9-24 (.375), 7 runs, 8 RBIs (plus 1 that Yadier Molina brought around on a fielder's choice error)
MIL: 7-26 (.269), 6 runs, 5 RBIs
As further affirmation, here are the series stats for the lineups minus Murderers' Row and the 1-2 Punch.
STL: 40-150 (.267), 28 runs, 21 RBIs
MIL: 39-157 (.248), 20 runs, 17 RBIs
Not to mention, that guy who won the MVP, David Freese? The one who hit .545 with 3 HRs and 9 RBIs in this series alone? Yeah, he's one of the "rest of the lineup" guys. Guess which team he's on? Yep, the team that won. Just for fun, let's look at Murderers' Row and the 1-2 Punch.
Albert Pujols: 11-23 (.478), 5 runs, 9 RBIs
Lance Berkman: 6-20 (.300), 4 runs, 2 RBIs
Matt Holliday: 10-23 (.435), 5 runs, 6 RBIs
Murderers' Row: 27-66 (.409), 14 runs, 17 RBIs
Ryan Braun: 8-24 (.333), 2 runs, 6 RBIs
Prince Fielder: 4-20 (.200), 4 runs, 3 RBIs
1-2 Punch: 12-44 (.272), 6 runs, 9 RBIs
My World Series preview/prediction should be up either tomorrow (well, today technically, I suppose) or Wednesday. Be forewarned that if I pick against the Cardinals, it has been scientifically proven (with a sample size of 2) that they will win in a different number of games than I picked them to lose.
Also, RIP Dan Wheldon. That was probably the most horrific crash I've ever seen.
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