Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Wasan ya kasance daidai da daya a saman 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-killer Carlos Beltrán (18 ga 51 tare da gidaje bakwai a kan St. Louis a 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.