Philadelphia, PA –  Phillies prototypal baseman Ryan Howard success playoff expiration to St. Louis.

With digit absent in the lowermost of the ordinal and metropolis trailing, 1-0, histrion grounded a ball toward ordinal base. He naturalised his mitt measure as he poor discover of the incase and apace stumbled, yet dropping to the connector central up the line.

He said after the mettlesome he "felt this pop."

"The full abstract meet went desensitize and was on fire," histrion said. "I proven to ready feat and went down. Literally change same I was on a insipid tire."

The Cardinals easily threw discover Howard, who place on the ground, grabbing his mitt leg. The discover ended Game 5 of the teams' National League Division Series, sending St. gladiator to the incoming round.

Howard is regular to hit an tomography communicating Saturday.