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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sport
Rick Hummel

Cardinals squeeze out series win by nipping Giants 2-1

ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals’ long ascent back to contention in the National League Central Division must start with a shorter climb to .500. They have reached neither yet, but to accomplish one and then another, they have to string together a fistful of series wins.

The first of those came Sunday when the Cardinals squeezed out a 2-1 victory at Busch Stadium over Western Division pacesetter San Francisco. After dropping the first game of the series on Friday, the Cardinals posted 3-1 and 2-1 wins in succession and now are one win shy of .500 at 46-47.

They remain nine games behind first-place Milwaukee but that is a conservation for another day.

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