Card Carrier
With his complete-game shutout of the Phillies, Chris Carpenter won a classic pitchers' duel to take the Cardinals to the NLCS. Jayson Stark »
SERIES DETAILS
CARDINALS WIN OVER PHILLIES, 3-2
C. Carpenter (W)- IP: 9.0
ER: 0 K/BB: 3/0
- IP: 9.0
R. Halladay (L)- IP: 8.0
ER: 1 K/BB: 7/1
- IP: 8.0
CONTENT ARCHIVE
• Stark: Carpenter leads Cards to NLCS »
• Nelson: Phillies crushed by loss #187;
• Schoenfield: Cards win classic duel »
• Stats: Carpenter does number on Phils »
• NLDS Photo Gallery 
• Recap: One and done after first-inning run »
• Howard injures Achilles on last AB »
• Stark: Get ready for classic Game 5 »
• Vote: Who will win Game 5? »
• Baseball Tonight: Game 5 preview 
• Cards take steps to evict squirrel »
• Stark: Cardinals keep on fighting »
• Wojciechowski: Cards can't let Pujols go »
• Freese's four RBIs carry Cardinals in Game 4 »
• Busch Stadium squirrel steals spotlight »
• Schoenfield: Pujols' heady play turns Game 4 »
• Stats & Info: Cardinals 'Freese' Phillies »
• Bowden: Bullpen is Phillies' Achilles heel »
• Stats & Info: Pujols, Oswalt familiar foes »
• Holliday in Cards' lineup for Game 4 »
• Stark: Phillies in charge now »
• Schoenfield: Rip La Russa, credit Francisco »
• Nelson: Angry Cards blow chances »
• Stats & Info: Francisco unlikely hero »
• Pujols pans late start times »
• Recap: Cards stranded, down 2-1 »
• La Russa fined for comments on TV »
• Phils coach Mackanin in Boston's skipper mix »
• Nelson: Garcia's path to mound success »
• Stark: Cards find ways to come back »
• Stark: Cardinals fight back »
• Nelson: La Russa argues, wins »
• Schoenfield: Cliff Lee no longer invincible »
• Recap: Cards pen holds Phillies »
• Ford: Lee's son a success story »
• Stark: Halladay and Howard rise to moment »
• Nelson: Lohse cruising 'til crushed »
• Schoenfield: Howard punishes Cards »
• Stats: Halladay, Howard & history »
• Kurkjian: Five key questions »
• Bowden: Breaking down the NLDS 
• Grey: Scouting the Phillies and Cardinals
• Kahrl: Evaluating NL skippers' tactics »
• Goldstein: Phils, Brewers draft well
• espnW: Q&A w Phillies VP Bonnie Clark »
• Halladay hurting; McClellan left off roster »
• Stats: Lohse, Cards get Halladay in Game 1 »
• Chase Utley's Swing of Beauty
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POSTSEASON HISTORY
Championships: 11
Last title: 2011
Last season:
Did not make the playoffs
Championships: 2
Last title: 2008
Last season:
Lost in the League Championship Series to the San Francisco Giants
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