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La Russa may be leaving St. Louis

By Buster Olney

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Nobody will know how the St. Louis Cardinals' season might have ended if the third out hadn't escaped them in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 2, if that little looping line drive had hit Matt Holliday in the pocket of his mitt instead of in the midsection. Maybe the St. Louis hitters would have emerged from the slump that enveloped Albert Pujols and others in the last days of the regular season. Maybe the Cardinals would have come home riding a different wave, and taken out Joe Torre's te ...

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