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Team Turk on Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:09:02 PM
Cardinals defeat New York Mets
9-6.
So Taguchi laughed, and it felt so good.
"I can't explain. It's unbelievable," he said. "Who expected that I would hit a home run? Maybe nobody. Even me."
After Scott Spiezio saved the Cardinals in the seventh with a two-run triple that was nearly a home run, Taguchi hit a tiebreaking homer off closer Billy Wagner leading off a three-run ninth inning that lifted St. Louis to a 9-6 victory over New York on Friday night.