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Izzy's place on team remains 'wild card'
July 20
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 
A manager's perfect world always includes a single, unchallenged closer who allows the remainder of the bullpen to offer structured roles to its remaining six (or seven) arms. The Cardinals enter Sunday's series finale arguably the National League's most surprising team. But the NL wild card leader is living in far from a perfect world.For confirmation, one only need ask manager Tony La Russa or exiled closer Jason Isringhausen, whose last save came May 5, 11 days before he went on the disabled list because of ineffectiveness and a right hand laceration. La Russa said recently that having a defined closer is "the best scenario, but this season, you take the circumstances that have developed. We got to the point where we lost Izzy. We're trying to get him back. We're trying to win games."La Russa doesn't intend to make the two sound mutually exclusive.

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