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From Chris Carpenter's perspective, it would have been nice to pitch a potential clinching World Series Game 5 at Rangers Ballpark. From his team's perspective, the alternative is not bad, either.

"If you want to choose somebody from the St. Louis Cardinals to pitch that game, it's Chris," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said moments after the Rangers won Game 4, 4-0, to even the Series. "I mean, there isn't anything about pitching on the road in a hostile environment. I think he actually likes it, pitches better."

Recent history seems to agree with that notion. With the Cardinals needing a victory on the final day of the regular season, Carpenter struck out 11 in a two-hit shutout of the Astros in Houston. With the Cardinals needing him to outduel the Phillies' Roy Halladay in Game 5 of the National League Division Series at Citzens Bank Park, Carpenter ...

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