If the Texas Rangers are to seize the upper hand of this World Series, now deadlocked, they must solve Chris Carpenter. The right-handed ace of the St. Louis Cardinals defeated Doc Halliday 1-0 to get his (Carpenter’s) team where they are. In days of yore, a Carpenter would have started Game 5 and been ready to pitch on short rest for Game 7 if needed. Today, it is difficult to imagine Tony La Russa returning to Carpenter in such a situation, unless a rain out or other unforeseen disruption of the Series were to occur. (Thus creating an extra day of rest for his hurler.) If we reach a Game 7, of course, it’s “all hands on deck.” I think that’s called synecdoche in the world of literary rhetoric. Whatever, the Series, now going to the first team to win two games, already has been one of the more-memorable ones in recent…memory.