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St. Louis Cardinals seeking revenge on San Francisco Giants

By Bryan Rose

Oct 22, 2012; San Francisco, CA, USA; San Francisco Giants center fielder Angel Pagan (16) celebrates after defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 in game seven of the 2012 NLCS to advance to the world series at AT&T Park. The Giants will play the Detroit Tigers in the world series. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 22, 2012; San Francisco, CA, USA; San Francisco Giants center fielder Angel Pagan (16) celebrates after defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 in game seven of the 2012 NLCS to advance to the world series at AT&T Park. The Giants will play the Detroit Tigers in the world series. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports /
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Back in 2012 the St. Louis Cardinals were just one victory away from stamping their ticket to the World Series. Standing in their way was struggling veteran Barry Zito of the San Francisco Giants.

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Things couldn’t have aligned more perfectly for St. Louis as the Giants’ back was against the wall with their worst starter on the mound. But baseball is going to do what baseball is going to do and Barry Zito unexpectldy channeled his Cy Young winning stuff from a decade earlier and shocking set the series back to the Bay Area.

That’s all the San Francisco Giants needed as they stormed back from a 3-1 series deficit and captured the National League pennant in an epic seven-game series. That hasn’t been lost on the St. Louis Cardinals, many of whom had to watch the Giants celebrate en route to their second World Series title in three seasons. Now it appears as if the Cardinals and catcher Yadier Molina are out for revenge.

“What happened in 2012,” Molina said, “we’ve got in the back of our minds.”

Unlike 2012 where the San Francisco Giants held home field advantage over the St. Louis Cardinals, the situation has been reversed in 2014 and it’s St. Louis who will own those rights this go around. The Cardinals hope that potential extra home game will be a defining moment as it was for the Giants in 2012 though know they have a tough task on hand given the San Francisco Giants have won eight straight playoff series (including the one game Wild Card).

Of course the St. Louis Cardinals are no slouch either as they’re playing in their fourth straight NLCS and look primed for another return to the Fall Classic.

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