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It’s cliché and boring to say that baseball is a game of inches. We’ve all heard it said a thousand times, and it’s usually the mark of someone who just doesn’t have anything insightful to say. But sometimes I think it’s really amazing how close a baseball game can come to being a completely different baseball game.

Wednesday night, in Game 1 of the World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals came close to playing a different baseball game against the Texas Rangers. The baseball game they wound up playing, though, was one they won 3-2, establishing an early 1-0 series lead.

Game 1 matched ace C.J. Wilson up against ace Chris Carpenter, and though neither is a flamethrowing ace in the classic mold, they’re both among the better starters in either league. They didn’t necessarily show that early on, as each starter struggled to throw strikes through the first two innings in cold and windy conditions, but they did manage to keep their respective opponents off the board.

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