Carp will start Game 7 for Cardinals, Holliday out

October 28, 2011 - 1:14 PM

ST. LOUIS -- Looks like what we suspected is going to happen tonight in Game Seven of this incredible World Series: Ace Chris Carpenter will start tonight for the Cardinals.

1:45 update: This just in -- Matt Holliday has been taken off the Cardinals' roster for Game Seven and not because of his braincramps of dropping a pop-up in left field or getting picked off third base. He has a right pinkie injury that was in a splint after Game Six. He insisted he will play but the Cardinals have put Adron Chambers on in place of Holliday.

Be sure to check out my Web-only story on the Cardinals' incredible Game Six win, featuring quotes from both clubhouses. Some incredible tidbits courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau:

---The Cardinals were the first team to score in the eighth, ninth, 10th and 11th innings of a Series game.

---David Freese is the first player to collect two tying or go-ahead hits in the ninth inning or later of a Series game.

---The Texas bullpen became the first crew to ever blow three saves in the Series -- and were twice down to the last strike. Crazy.

---Mike Harrington
(www.twitter.com/bnharrington)

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Mike Harrington

Mike Harrington, a Canisius College graduate who began his career as a News reporter in 1987, has covered the Buffalo Bisons since 1992 and Major League Baseball since 1995. A member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, Harrington has reported on 15 World Series -- including every pitch of the Fall Classic this century -- and all three of the Bisons' championship runs in their modern era. He is a connoisseur of the famous Stadium Mustard at Cleveland's Progressive Field.

@BNHarrington | mharrington@buffnews.com

Amy Moritz

Amy Moritz, a native of Lockport, has covered the Bisons for The Buffalo News since 2002. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism/mass communication from St. Bonaventure University and a master’s degree in humanities from the University at Buffalo. An endurance athlete, she has completed several triathlons, half marathons and marathons.

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