Your last paragraph contains the nut of the matter: there was nothing Middlebrooks could do. And guess what? IT. DOES. NOT. MATTER. His rights ended when the ball went past him; anything—ANYTHING—even a nanosecond after that is the act of a player not making a play. An infielder not playing the ball who impedes a…

Craig was clearly going to score without the trip. Regardless, there was an error on the throw. Boston fans please continue to ignore that and blame the umpires.

Red Sox fan here. It was the right call. The runner would have been safe by 3 feet if there wasn't a large 3rd baseman lying down on the base path with his legs in the air.

Intent doesn't matter.

Brilliant, thought provoking comment.

Again, whatever. I don't want you to like the Cards or bow in praise. I just don't think suggesting stepping away from your trolling narrative and/or talking about baseball like someone who objectively watches for a quick minute during the World Series it makes me an asshole. Obviously you have every right to ignore…

Everyone is trolling the Cards fans. Dodgers fans believe Hanley was hit intentionally and that somehow, an uninjured Hanley was going to single-handedly lead them to victory in the LCS.

In the end, the Cardinals are the real trolls. THEY are in the World Series, and THEY are going to St. Louis tied 1-1.

You must have missed the part where I basically said the team is fucked if they don't get their shit together on offense, where we look somewhat anemic. Also the fact that I wasn't complaining so much about the lack of praise, but either the dead horse and it's beatings. Cards fan (myself included) deserve much of the…

Has this become Deadspin: Anti-St. Louis? I know trolling stl fans is fun, but not giving any credit to the winning team is a bit of a joke right? Don't make me go back to ESPN for sports journalism.

Can't decide if trolling...

Whatever. Carlos Martinez and Trevor Rosenthal throw fucking fire; that might have had something to do with the poor "plate approach". Oh, and without an error, at least the Cards tie the game, and there's no reason to believe Breslow doesn't give up a hit to Beltran to give them the lead. So, while the inning was a…

Well the Cardinals can't really be too mad considering they all had Vaseline in their gloves last night as well

Based on how far apart her hands are, I'd say that he's from Girth, Australia.

Hey, maybe if she didn't wanna get hit, she should have been born a man and then hit this guy even harder with her stronger, faster arms.

The shear amount of trolling Deadspin has unloaded onto the Cardinals/St. Louis/ Cards Fans is awesome, to put it simply. As a Cards fan, I couldn't care less how outsiders view us and I'm glad there's negativity being expressed, especially on here.

What position do you play on the la crosse team?

- St. Louis Cardinals

The comparisons between Cardinals players and what Puig did is ridiculous. All of the celebrations in that link are AFTER the plays are over. Puig flipped a bat on a triple. In other words, while the ball was still in play. Big difference.

"Beltran scored all three of the Cardinals' runs last night"