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It is the top of the ninth in last night's Game Five in Houston.

Tying runners aboard, for one of the most dangerous hitters in the game: Pujols. This was certainly the scenario you didn't want to deal with. Garner comes out to say, "I don't care if you walk Pujols. We're not gonna walk him intentionally, but you go ahead and throw what you want where you want, and if you walk him so be it." [But why not walk him intentionally? Pitch to Larry Sanders!]

Garner heads back to the dugout, Ausmus back to to the plate.

Pujols swings at the first pitch, a slider in the dirt, and misses.

And then Astros announcers Milo Hamilton and Alan Ashby, speaking with monotone voices, as if they were talking about the weather:

Strike one count to Albert Pujols...ready for an oh-one, Brad Lidge ready...delivers...fly ball...it's a long home run...it's clear up on the railroad tracks.... And the air just went out of the balloon here. The thing you talked about, Alan.... And none of us can believe what's just happened. Five-four Cardinals. This hit the glass up above the railroad tracks, just a bomb. Runs three, four, and five. So lights-out Lidge gets lit up. Four hundred and twelve feet? If that ball ever came down, it would be way beyond that.