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- Updated: October 1, 2016
ST. LOUIS — His regular-season numbers complete after capping the best season of his young career with one of his most in-control starts, Carlos Martinez now turns his attention to what’s next — even if he’s not yet sure what that might be.
Ready to start for the Cardinals in a win-or-go-home National League Wild Card Game on Wednesday, Martinez can only anxiously watch as the Cards try to get there. What Martinez did on Friday in pitching the Cardinals to a 7-0 win over the Pirates will help. But now he’s left to hope.
That’s because the Giants held serve, too, beating the Dodgers to maintain their one-game advantage over the Cardinals for the second spot in the NL Wild Card standings. The Mets, with a win, remain one game ahead of them. If Martinez is to take the mound again in 2016, the Cardinals will need at least one of those teams to lose.
“I’m confident that it won’t be [my last start], because I’m confident in my team,” Martinez said, speaking through an interpreter. “We’re doing our best, and I think we can really make it to the postseason and hopefully play deep into October.”
Martinez, who had shoulder …
