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Baseball Today: Monday, September 10
Projo Sox Blog — ... (Palm Beach Post) . . . The Cardinals' Chris Duncan may be out for the season (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) . . . The Cubs may be looking ...

Game 141 Open Thread: September 10, 2007
Viva El Birdos — ... that takes care of the preliminaries. to the baseball: the weekend showcased all the reasons why the cardinals trail by 3 games in this lousy division. it was all there: the defensive lapses, the uneven pitching, the one-hit-shy rallies, the questionable managing, the off-field turmoil, the players lost to injury (the latest is duncan, who might need surgery for a sports hernia). all the missteps and mishaps outweighed --- not by much, but by just enough --- the many good things the cardinals did over the weekend: another solid start by wainwright, a solid bullpen appearance from wells, a lotta production from pujols, two big-inning outbursts. all three losses could, and probably should, have been wins, but i can't argue that the outcomes were unjust. the cardinals earned all three defeats. ...

The Morning Tailgate
STLSportsMag — ... ] More good news – Chris Duncan’s season might be over [ STL Today ] Another late inning loss drops the Cardinals to three games back…when three days ago they had a chance to be in a tie for first. [ ...

Anyone Have A Flux Capacitor?
Doberman On The Diamond — ... Then on Sunday, the Cards blew a 4-2 lead, and ended up getting swept out of the Arizona desert. As if that weren't bad enough, word comes that left fielder Chris Duncan is probably out for the year with a hernia. Duncan became the fifth significant player to go down due to injury, joining Chris Carpenter, Adam Kennedy, Juan Encarnacion and Scott Rolen. ...

Open Thread: Cubs vs. Cardinals, Monday 9/10, 2:20 CT
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... Of course, at that time I couldn't have anticipated that Encarnacion, the only player I mentioned regarding his stats vs. Lilly, would suffer the freak and horrifying injury ten days later, when he was hit by a foul ball while standing in the on-deck circle. Encarnacion will have surgery later this month; that link is mainly about the injury to Chris Duncan, who may be out for the year due to a "sports hernia". Now that doesn't make me unhappy, as Duncan hits the Cubs hard -- lifetime .301/.358/.548 with 5 HR in 73 AB. As for Encarnacion, my best wishes to him for a complete recovery. ...

Chris Duncan Is Done for the Year, Is Tony La Russa Leaving Next?
FanHouse — ... out of action for the rest of the year. Duncan would join Juan Encarnacion, Scott Rolen, and several other Cardinals on the shelf if he's unable to play again this year. ...