The four-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux held the St Louis Cardinals to one run as the Atlanta Braves forced a deciding game in the National League Championship Series with a 3-1 win. In the World Series final starting tomorrow, the winners meet the New York Yankees whose slugger Darryl Strawberry has a hairline fracture of his toe but expects to be fit.
NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: Atlanta 3 St Louis 1 (Best-of-seven series tied 3-3).
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