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Cards win on a couple of unearned runs. It's beginning to look a lot like 2011.

Cardinals reverse Red Sox fortune in Game 2

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/20...3pJ/story.html

Visiting teams at Fenway are supposed to melt into a puddle at the mere sight of Boston’s bearded warriors. For most of this year, especially in the playoffs, Sox opponents have lost their composure and their baseball skills upon walking into Fenway Park. The John Henry/Boston Globe Red Sox (has a nice ring to it, no?) are trained to play “Three Little Birds’’ and “Sweet Caroline” over the public address system, then watch the opponents beat themselves.

Not Thursday night. Not in Game 2 of the 2013 World Series. After a Game 1 embarrassment, the Cardinals played Big Boy Baseball, beating the Red Sox, 4-2, behind the power pitching of three baby hurlers who collectively are three years younger than the vice president of the United States.

The Cardinals regained the lead, scoring twice when Matt Carpenter hit a routine sacrifice fly to left. Freese beat Jonny Gomes’s throw home. Jay followed Freese home after Breslow picked up the ball after Gomes’s throw deflected off the mitt of catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and fired it past Stephen Drew at third and into the stands. Saltalamacchia and Breslow were both slapped with errors. The Cardinals increased their lead to 4-2 when Carlos Beltran followed with a single to right.