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ST. LOUIS -- All season long, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny set 10 games over .500 as a target for his team.St. Louis, on its 10th try, finally reached that mark with a 10-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday, but the Cardinals still missed the playoffs for the first time since 2010.Matt Carpenter homered, and Randal Grichuk keyed a six-run seventh-inning with a two-run double to lead St. Louis to its fourth win in a row. But the Cardinals (86-76) were eliminated while still on the field when San Francisco (87-75) beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-1 and earned the second NL wild card.Thats the danger when its not in your hands anymore, Matheny said. Our focus was to take care of our own business, and we did that.St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright allowed two runs and six hits in six innings. He did not get a decision.To miss the playoffs by one game, thats tough to swallow, Wainwright said. You think about how many times you couldve won games or just one or two games, and you didnt. It gets you to thinking back a little bit.St. Louis outfielder Matt Holliday was briefly brought into the game to play left field in the ninth inning. He was given a standing ovation and taken out before the first pitch. The Cardinals announced Friday that they plan to decline his 2017 option and allow him to become a free agent.How special was that? Matheny said. What instigated it was the response of the fans, so badly they wanted to see him one more time.St. Louis was a big league-best 100-62 last year but lost to the Chicago Cubs in the division series. The Cardinals never led the NL Central at any point this season and finished with a losing record at home (38-43) for the first time since 1999.Anytime you dont win the World Series, its disappointing, infielder Aledmys Diaz?said. But we kept coming and never let down.To get close, it definitely makes it a little more disappointing, Carpenter said. But thats the nature of the business. Theres only [one] team that doesnt have this day.After making the playoffs in three straight seasons, Pittsburgh dropped from 98-64 to 78-83.Yadier Molina had three hits for the Cardinals. Stephen Piscotty singled in Molina to break a 4-4 tie in the seventh. Carpenter hit his 21st homer of the season off Antonio Bastardo for a 4-2 lead.?Jonathan Broxton (4-2) won despite allowing two runs in one inning of relief.Juan Nicasio (10-7) gave up three runs without recording an out in the seventh.?Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run single in the fifth to give his team a 2-1 lead.Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle is ready to move on from the disappointing campaign.Forty-one years in the game, and I honor the game, I respect the game, Hurdle said. And Ive also gotten very good on closing the book when its time to close the book.Pittsburgh catcher Eric Fryer had two hits in a losing cause.I think down the stretch, we definitely competed, Fryer said. Theres a lot of optimism here with a lot of young arms.PACK THE PLACEA crowd of 44,615, the 19th sellout of the season, watched the final game.St. Louis drew 3,444,490, second to the Los Angeles Dodgers in major league home attendance. It was the fifth-highest attendance total in franchise history and the 13th successive year that the team has drawn at least three million. Air Max Plus 97 Cheap . Both players have lower body injuries that will keep them out of the lineup until at least January 31, which is the first game they can be activated from IR. 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Esa Lindell and Rasmus Ristolainen replied for Finland (1-1-0) Lindell opened the scoring for Finland just 41 seconds into the game, but the hosts quickly regained their composure and tied the score less than four minutes later on Wennbergs first of the game. Take a bow, Rory McIlroy.After rolling in a 20-foot eagle putt on No. 16 to finish off Dustin Johnson and Matt Kuchar, McIlroy turned to the partisan American crowd and bowed, twice, then screamed, Cmon! as he punched the chilly Minnesota air with his fist.It was an emphatic finish to an impressive afternoon rally for the Europeans at the Ryder Cup. McIlroy and Thomas Pieters beat Johnson and Kuchar 3 and 2 to close the afternoon session. The Europeans won three of the four matches in the afternoon after losing all four of the morning matches.Even before I hit that putt, I wanted to put an exclamation point on that session for us, he said. I actually thought about the celebration before I hit the putt. I knew it had a good chance off going in.dddddddddddd.The crowd at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska was fired up after the American sweep in the morning, and McIlroy was only too happy to quiet them down in the afternoon in his second Ryder Cup on U.S. soil.This is definitely a little more hostile, McIlroy said. Reactions like that [bow] on the last, I just want to let people know how much it means to us.McIlroy also said he wasnt fazed by anything said by the crowd.And Im not fazed by anything the U.S. throws at us, he said.The United States holds a 5-3 lead headed into Saturday.The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '