Postgame is no holiday for Cardinals' Matt Holliday...

Friday, October 9, 2009 at 2:46 AM


'It's tough to swallow,' the left fielder says of his error that gave the Dodgers an opening in the ninth inning.

Not the Reggie Jackson or Joe Carter kind.

The Bill Buckner kind.

With the bases empty and two out in the ninth inning Thursday evening at Dodger Stadium, all Holliday had to do was catch James Loney's sinking liner and the St. Louis Cardinals would beat the Dodgers to tie the National League division series at one game apiece.

"I had it," the Cardinals' left fielder said of a ball hit directly at him. "I was coming in to get it and then all of a sudden I couldn't see it."

Holliday lost the ball in the lights. He tried to adjust his glove at the last second, but the ball smacked him in the stomach for an error that triggered the Dodgers' stunning 3-2 come-from-behind victory in Game 2.

It was a mistake that felt like a blow to the gut of an entire franchise after the Cardinals fell into a two-games-to-none hole in the best-of-five series.

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