Part 9: St. Louis Cardinals - The ultimate winners
Prior to the commencement of the best-of-seven World Series finals, many pundits shunned making predictions as to who would prevail at the end. Nonetheless, there were analysis on the weaknesses and the strengths of each team, and also about the perfections
and flaws of the respective players both teams possessed.
As the very first game of the World Series kicked off, it was a tough battle. Neither of the team could leave the ballpark without putting a fight. It was precisely this reason why one never doubted the deserving merit of both the teams and the factors that
proved requisite in helping them reach the final.
However, the Cardinals, since the very start, came forward as a team which was built to race into victories. It was David Freese who said that the team deserved this victory in the whole ride. Important to remember was that he was later nominated and ultimately
won the Series’ Most Valuable Player award.
While the St. Louis Cardinals may have a new manager now, in Tony La Russa they had a guide whose most distinguishable feature was to instill confidence and inspiration in the team. Interestingly, when asked how he did it, the former St. Louis Cardinals
manager Tony La Russa would say he could not explain this. He said it was hard to explain how this happened.
Ron Washington, the team manager of the Texas Rangers had his explanation for whatever transpired. “Sometimes when opportunity is in your presence, you certainly can't let it get away because sometimes it takes a while before it comes back,” Washington said.
“If there's one thing that happened in this World Series that I'll look back on is being so close, just having one pitch to be made and one out to be gotten, and it could have been a different story.”
There are no doubts at all that the Texas Rangers fought as much as they could. However, there came a time when they could no longer continue it. Game 7 was a reminder of it. Once the Cardinals scored the tiebreaking run, there was hardly any resistance
shown by the Rangers.
If they tried, they might have done something different. They probably could not. This argument reinforces itself by the assertion of Texas Rangers’ Adrian Beltre who said, “We tried to come back today, but the momentum just took them. It’s not a nice feeling,
you know, being one strike away twice. I guess it's probably easier to lose four games in a row in a World Series, but being a strike away it's something that will be hard to forget.”
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