Cardinals level NL finals at 1-1 after 5-4 win over San Francisco Giants
Kolten Wong hits a home run in the bottom of the ninth against Giants but star catcher picks up muscle injury and the prognosis isn't good
Kolten Wong ended game two of the NL Championship Series against San Francisco with a big swing for the St Louis Cardinals.
Now, they can only hope that the season isn't over for Yadier Molina.
Wong hit a lead-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning and the resilient Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4, tying the best-of-seven series at one game apiece with their latest postseason power show.
We'll wait and see and right now we'll just go ahead and keep celebrating a very tough, hard-fought win. I am real proud at how these guys kept coming
The Cardinals came back after losing Molina to a strained oblique muscle in the sixth. The All-Star catcher was getting further tests and manager Mike Matheny said it "didn't look real good".
"We'll wait and see and right now we'll just go ahead and keep celebrating a very tough, hard-fought win. I am real proud at how these guys kept coming," Matheny said.
St Louis didn't stay down too long, getting a home run in each of the final three innings in a back-and-forth game.
The series resumes with game three tomorrow morning (Hong Kong time) in San Francisco with John Lackey going in to pitch for St Louis and Tim Hudson starting for the Giants.