Chris with a K: A Closer Arrives

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Mike On The Cards found this 8/29/2008 on www.stltoday.com [flag]
DOWNTOWN — Into the skillet of a ninth inning that, for the moment, defined the Cardinals’ playoff chances, rookie Chris Perez did more than save a game against rival Milwaukee or a save season for the contending Cardinals. He dispensed with semantics. He obliterated this ninth-inning correctness employed by the Cardinals. Call him closer, even if no one in uniform will.  ... [link]

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Cards Earn a Split
Published 8/29/2008 by Mike at Mike On The Cards
... After taking the lead with a four run eighth, the Cardinals looked once again to Perez to close it out.  He was outstanding.  Perez picked up his sixth save with three swinging strikeouts against the heart of the Milwaukee order.  Derrick Goold has an excellent article on the rookie over at Bird Land. ...

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