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Seckman To Perform at MLB Cardinals Victory Parade on Sunday
Seckman High School has one of the marching bands expected at Busch Stadium for the Cardinals' World Series victory rally on Sunday at 4 p.m.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat Texas Rangers 6-2 Friday in Game 7 of the World Series to become 2011 champs for the 11th time.
There is also a celebration 2pm Sunday sponsored by Budweiser at the stadium with $5 tickets going on sale 2pm Saturday. Two tickets per sale. Cardinals season ticket holders may buy four tickets per sale starting two hours earlier.
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Cardinals won four games to Rangers' three games for the Series. Cardinals lost Game 2 at home, then lost games 4 and 5 in Arlington, TX.
Cardinals won the bookend games 1 and 7 at home, then Game 3 in Texas, and Game 6 at home in 11 innings.
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Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa took the team to a World Series win in 2006 and now five years later in 2011.
August 25, the Cardinals were 10.5 games behind first in the National League rankings, with Atlanta Braves eventually falling behind, and Cardinals beating Philadelphia to take the NLDS and Milwaukee Brewers for the NLCS, to face the American League champs in the World Series.
The Cardinals ran rough over the Rangers in Game 3 with a score of 16-7. But Game 6 was the heartbreaker for Texas when not once, but twice, the Rangers were within one strike of becoming World Series champs. But not once, but twice, the Cardinals came back in win by one run 10-9 in a walk-off home run by World Series MVP (most valuable player) David Freese.
Freese, 27, is a graduate of Lafayette High School in Wildwood, MO. He won a black Corvette car as the Series MVP.
Games 6 and 7 were postponed by a day due to rainy weather.
World Series games win-loss:
- Game 1 2-3 STL Oct. 19
- Game 2 2-1 TX 20
- Game3 16-7 STL Oct. 22* Away
- Game 4 4-0 TX 23* Away
- Game 5 4-2 TX 24* Away
- Game 6 10-9 STL Oct. 26
- Game 7 6-2 STL Oct. 27
St. Louis WeatherBird tweeted that Metro will offer extra trains Sunday for the parade and celebration.
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