flexed his arms and let out a roar. “Let’s go,” he yelled out into the deepest depths of the gray-and-blue cavern that is Tropicana Field.. He watched as the pinch-hitter waved and missed. Montgomery, in turn, finished a seventh scoreless inning in a crucial wild-card contest. This was a pitcher in a big game, and here he was with perhaps the biggest performance of his life.
traded from the Yankees to the Cardinals because he was unlikely to crack New York’s postseason rotation “Every start that I’ve been here … it seems like he goes seven innings with no runs or one run,” Carter said. “He’s incredible. He’s doing a great job.” “The way I landed on my shoulder and my hips, it was something I’ve never done before,” he said. “I don’t know if I’ve done that since I was 12.”