What does this mean takes？and the“St Louis” is it a city name in here?[Image]

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St Louis is a city in Missouri, USA. The baseball team is known as the St Louis Cardinals. "Takes" means "wins" in this context. Hope that helps.

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Also, someone has crossed out the ‘the’ before ‘World Series opener’. It’s necessary here.

‘the World Series opener’ is the first game of the Series, which is a best-of-seven competition.