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For the St. Louis Cardinals, the time to talk about being the team they feel they can be is just about over.Thursdays 7-0 loss at Cincinnati capped a 5-5 trip that hinted at being so much more after a 4-1 start against the New York Mets and Miami, fellow National League wild-card hopefuls. With two-thirds of the season in the books, St. Louis (57-51) is tied with the Marlins for the second wild card.Beginning with Friday nights visit from the Atlanta Braves, the Cardinals need to figure out how to become the team they want to be, or else face missing the National League playoffs for just the fifth time since 2000.Its August. Youre going to have stuff, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said. They talk about it being the dog days, and these are a good test because youre going to have some struggles.Many of the Cardinals struggles have occurred in Busch Stadium, where they are a pitiful 25-30 a year after going 55-26 en route to a third straight Central Division title and baseballs first 100-win regular season in four years.If St. Louis is to indeed derive an advantage from familiar surroundings and the last at-bat, the upcoming six-game homestand offers a favorable opportunity. After three games with Atlanta (39-69), it welcomes the Reds, who have won one series in their last 10 visits.Whats more, the Cardinals are getting a big boost to their lineup with the return of All-Star Matt Carpenter, who will be activated Friday after missing a month with a strained right oblique.Carpenter, who was batting .298 with 14 homers and 53 RBI at the time of his injury, was on a pace to score and drive in more than 100 runs from the leadoff spot.He and his teammates will face right-hander Joel De La Cruz (0-3, 3.80), who will be making his fourth career start. De La Cruz last pitched on Sunday, working 4 1/3 scoreless innings in a 2-1 win over Philadelphia.Left-hander Jaime Garcia (7-8, 4.30) gets the call for St. Louis, aiming to improve on a disastrous start Saturday night. Going on three days of rest, Garcia allowed four runs in his first 15 pitches and eventually was charged with six runs over 3 1/3 innings in an 11-0 defeat.The Braves are coming off a rain-delayed 5-2 win Thursday night over Pittsburgh, enabling them to notch a series win. Center fielder Ender Inciartes two hits stretched his hitting streak to 15 games.He just keeps swinging that bat, kind of like that guy they saw last year, Atlanta interim manager Brian Snitker said to mlb.com of Inciarte. Thats good to see. The kid has worked really hard, and hes played great defense. Its just really nice to see the bat come alive.The Cardinals will pitch Carlos Martinez (10-6, 2.99) on Saturday night, while the Braves havent named a starter. Sundays series finale matches St. Louis veteran Adam Wainwright (9-5, 4.14) against Mike Foltynewicz (4-5, 4.60).Custom Tigers T-shirts . 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Coach Mike Munchak says Fokou stretched ligaments in his left knee Oct. 13 against Seattle, which could keep out up to five weeks even though the linebacker didnt need surgery.Winger Tommy Seymour ran in four tries for Glasgow in a 33-25 victory over Leinster on Scotstouns new artificial pitch.His heroics helped the home side make it two wins in two starts in the Guinness PRO12 and inflicted a first defeat of the campaign on Leinster, widely seen as a chief rival for end-of-season glory.Glasgow have replaced their often-muddy, flooding-prone old pitch with a thoroughly modern playing surface for the new season, and it staged an engrossing match.Leinster had led 19-12 at the interval, boosted by two tries in the final three minutes.Rob Kearney had scored the visitors opener before flanker Josh van der Flier and winger Zane Kirchner, from a delightful cross-field kick by stand-off Joey Carbery, nudged Leinster ahead at half-time.Seymour had opened the Glasgow try-scoring account and Tim Swinson added a second.Carbery added two penalties to his two conversions in the second half for Leinster, but it became the Seymour show.Two tries in two minutes from the Scotland international put Glasgow ahead but Leinster stayed in touch at 26-25.However the fourth try from Seymour made sure. Henry Pyrgos kicked four conversions in all for the hosts.The match first came to life in the 15th minute with Glasgow prop Sila Puafisi putting in the initial push, followed by a floated pass from centre Sam Johnson to allow winger Seymour tto score an unconverted try.ddddddddddddLeinster responded with a five-minute occupation of the home 22. Number eight Jordi Murphy seemed sure to score until brought down by Stuart Hogg, but the ball was fed left for full-back Kearney to score and Carbery to convert.Glasgow replied with accomplished handling that eventually cleared Swinson to score under the posts, allowing Pyrgos to convert.But in the final three minutes of the half, with Glasgow right-winger Leonardo Sarto in the sin bin, Leinster struck twice. First, flanker Van der Flier ran in.Then, stand-off Carbery flighted a perfect kick to the right for Kirchner to score. With Carbery converting the first, the visitors went in ahead.Three minutes into the second period a simple penalty from Carbery allowed Leinster to stretch their lead, but he was soon to make a costly mistake, throwing a pass that was intercepted by Seymour who sped over for a try that Pyrgos converted.Two minutes later and Seymour had his hat-trick, running in from a long way out to put Glasgow back in the lead and set up a bonus point.Carbery cut the difference to a point with a second penalty, however Seymour made sure of the home victory with a try under the bar converted by Pyrgos. ' ' '