Cards within one of NL wildcard

“font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;”>The St. Louis Cardinals pulled

within one game of the Atlanta Braves in the NL wild-card race as

Rafael Furcal hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning

yesterday (Sun., Sept. 25)

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in a 3-2 victory over the Chicago

Cubs.

  

St. Louis

trailed Atlanta by 10 1-2 games on Aug. 26, but the Cardinals have

won 15 of their last 20.

  

The Cardinals

close with a three-game series at Houston, which has the worst

record in the major leagues, while Atlanta hosts Philadelphia,

which has the best mark.

  

Trailing 2-1,

St. Louis tied the score in the seventh on Yadier Molina’s

career-best 14th homer. The following inning, Furcal homered off

Randy Wells (7-6).

“font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;”>Information from the Sports

Network contributed to this report.