Cardinals Hold Off Braves To Advance To NLDS Against Nationals

Last Updated: Sat 6, Oct 06:54

ATLANTA — David Freese And The St. Louis Cardinals Rediscovered Their Post-season Touch. Chipper Jones And The Braves Kept Throwing The Ball Away. And The Atlanta Fans Turned Turner Field Into A Trash Heap.

They Said Anything Could Happen In Baseball’s First Wild-card Playoff.

Boy, Did It Ever.

In A Game Protested By The Braves, Matt Holliday Homered And The Defending World Series Champion Cardinals Took Advantage Of Three Atlanta Throwing Errors — The Most Crucial Of Them By The Retiring Jones — To Take The Winner-take-all Playoff 6-3 On Friday.

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