[Elendil]

Halloween was another sunny, warm day, a perfect Sunday for a Game Seven. Young Sean Henn, the Québécois ace, would be facing off against Dontrelle Willis on three days' rest. The Québécois had a heavy advantage on the mound, but would the offense perform after being totally shut down the day before?

The Québécois started the game out right, drawing two consecutive walks. Santangelo then worked the count full before singling to left. Boyd had an average arm, and Youkilis decided to test it. He was thrown out. Second and third, one out. Giles then drove a line drive to center, but Guzman made a shoestring catch and then fired the ball to first to double off Santangelo. Poor baserunning by Montreal and great defense by St. Louis kept the Québécois off the scoreboard in the first.

The baserunning mistakes didn't stop there, though. The first Cardinal hitter, Freddy Guzman, singled to left and was thrown out trying to stretch it to a double. Both teams were clearly going for an aggressive style of play.

Henn had a horrible first, yielding three more basehits and two walks for three runs. He simply had not been on his game at all this postseason.

After that point, Willis settled in, scattering four hits over six innings for no runs. Henn never completely settled down and was chased in the sixth with the score 5-0.

The Québécois looked to be going down to another frustrating defeat, when in the eighth inning they managed to string together three hits against Juan Morillo and score their first run. With runners on first and second and two out, Lino Condit (f) slammed a double to the left-center gap, plating both runners. All of a sudden, the game was interesting. 5-3. Tyler Johnson (2.44, 9-0) came in and whiffed Jason Dubois to end the threat.

Rusty Tucker entered in the bottom of the eighth, hoping to give the Québécois some kind of chance at a comeback in the final frame. He did his job, and the world championship came down to a two-run difference with three outs remaining. Closer Jason Pearson came in to pitch to Erstad, who was pulled back for a righthander, backup catcher Mike Tonis. Pearson hadn't allowed an earned run all postseason.

Tonis singled to lead off the inning. Rickey decided not to pinch run for him, since he wasn't the tying run. Wes Long came up and promptly grounded into a double play. The Québécois were down to their final out, and lefty Jon-Mark Sprowl was stepping in. Because of his high OBP, he was left in there against Pearson. He grounded out to short, and the St. Louis Cardinals were world champions.