Jon Jay Chases World Series Title with St. Louis Cardinals
Oct. 28, 2011
Coral Gables, Fla. – Former University of Miami Hurricanes outfielder Jon Jay is the third UMiami alum in the last two seasons to play in the World Series. Jay joins Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell whom played for the World Series Champion San Francisco Giants a season ago. This season, Jay and the St. Louis Cardinals are taking on the Texas Rangers in the title chase.
Throughout the World Series, HurricaneSports.com will have complete postgame coverage and recaps to local newspapers and video highlights following each game.
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Game 1 Recap: On a four-letter night spelled c-o-l-d, Chris Carpenter responded to the first question of a closely matched World Series.
He answered loudly, sometimes profanely and once with his face planted beside the first-base bag. Ultimately the Cardinals’ signature starter held the Texas Rangers’ nitric offense long enough that a sixth-inning, pinch-hit RBI and three innings of shutout relief translated into a 3-2 win in Game 1 at Busch Stadium.
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Game 2 Recap: Three outs shy of taking command of a pitching-heavy World Series, the Cardinals denied themselves momentum and their starting pitcher justice in a 2-1 hard fall to the Texas Rangers in Game 2 at Busch Stadium.
A series of events rarely seen during the Cardinals’ late-season surge and playoff run conspired against them as the Rangers scored two ninth-inning runs against recently infallible closer Jason Motte. Defense, another recent strong point, also played a part in the betrayal as the Rangers parlayed a stolen base and a missed throw into important extra bases.
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Game 3 Recap: The Texas Rangers could only wish for Albert Pujols to not show up Saturday night.
Two days after his absence generated debate, the Cardinals first baseman and man of influence silenced a Rangers Park crowd of 51,462 and stunned the American League champions with three home runs and six RBIs in an unfathomable four-inning span. Pujols’ breakout blew open a game that already had gorged itself on offense and that put the Cardinals in control of the World Series with a 16-7 victory for a two-games-to-one lead.
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Game 4 Recap: The Cardinals ran into an unfamiliar lefthanded power arm and what they perceived as a generous strike zone Sunday night against the Texas Rangers.
Combined with an inefficient start from starting pitcher Edwin Jackson and a traumatic first-pitch, sixth-inning result from their bullpen, the Cardinals went quietly in a 4-0 two-hit loss in Game 4 of a level World Series.
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Game 5 Recap: For more than seven innings Monday night the Cardinals cradled, stroked and manipulated Game 5 of a riveting World Series.
Ultimately, they flat out dropped it.
A team that defied odds to reach its third Fall Classic in eight seasons also defied them to absorb a 4-2 loss before a crowd of 51,459 at Rangers Park at Arlington. Afforded a quality start by Chris Carpenter, the Cardinals repeatedly stumbled on chances to break open a game that finally turned against them in the eighth inning.
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Game 6 Recap: The Cardinals have moved beyond the unlikely, through the implausible and onto the absurd. Thursday night before the largest crowd ever to watch a game at new Busch Stadium they added a chapter too complex to fully understand but too compelling to ignore.
Twice down to their last strike and possible elimination from the World Series, the Cardinals twice rallied to tie the Texas Rangers before ultimately forcing tonight’s Game 7 on third baseman David Freese’s 11th-inning launch into the night against reliever Mark Lowe.
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