Cardinals faced a tough time through out year. It was terribly difficult for these beat-up, beat-down Cardinals to do. But that was the regular season. For everything that the Cardinals did wrong then, something is going right now. For all their failures then, they are finding success now.
A team once mistaken for October dead sustained its doubtful effort at a second World Series appearance in three years when it crushed the New York Mets 4-2 in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.Heading the series three games to two, the Cardinals’ mission is viciously trouble-free: win one of the next two at Shea Stadium and advance to face the Detroit Tigers.
The 83-win Cardinals, a lineup that hardly escaped the most ordinary division in the game - are out of the blue a win away from the World Series. Wow! Cards are just one win away from World Championship.