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Oct 28, 2011 - It’s hard to win a World Series without a little luck.

I’m practically impossible to win a seven-game World Series without a lot of luck.

And the Cardinals rode their share of good luck to yet another championship, beating the Rangers 6-2, Friday night in Game 7 of the 2011 World Series.

You can’t do it without some really good players, too. The St. Louis Cardinals couldn’t have done it without David Freese or Allen Craig or Albert Pujols or Lance Berkman or Chris Carpenter. The Cardinals beat the Rangers in Game 7, 5-2, with Freese knocking in two runs with a first-inning double and Craig chipping in with a tie-breaking homer in the third.

But when you’re apportioning credit for Game 7, you have to save some credit for a couple of extraordinary creatures who didn’t swing a bat or throw a pitch all month long.

First, let’s hear it for Mother Nature.

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By Rob Neyer - National Baseball Editor, SBNation