Kammala wannan jumla: Wasan ya kasance daidai da daya daga cikin na tara lokacin da Rolen ya yi wasa. Molina, mai bugawa na gaba, (kuma kamar Taguchi ba mai buga wasan gida ba, tare da 16 a cikin 937 manyan wasannin bat), ya buga wasan gida biyu a bangon filin hagu don baiwa Cardinals jagorancin 3-1. A ƙarshen ninki na tara, Mets sun cika da tushe tare da biyu a kan singles ta José Valentín da Chavez da kuma tafiya zuwa mai karɓar Paul Lo Duca. Wannan ya kawo a farantin Cardinal-kisan kai Carlos Beltrán (18 ga 51 tare da gida bakwai gudu da St.
2004 da 2006 NLCS), wanda a cikin kakar wasa ta buga wasanni 41 ya buga gida kuma ya gudu a 116. St. Louis' rookie taimako mai jefa, Adam Wainwright, wanda aka girka a matsayin mai kusa kawai wata daya da suka gabata, ya buga Beltran a cikin filaye uku (na karshe mai kallon curveball), kuma Cardinals sun lashe jerin kuma na 17 na National League pennant a tarihin kamfani.