CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Leave it to a Syracuse guy to spoil Patrick Ewings NBA head coaching debut. Carmelo Anthony had 28 points and eight rebounds, Andrea Bargnani added 25 points and the New York Knicks beat Ewings Bobcats 101-91 Friday night to snap a three-game losing streak. Ewing, the former Georgetown star who spent 15 seasons with the Knicks, filled in as Charlottes coach after Steve Clifford underwent a successful procedure earlier in the day to have two stents placed in his heart. Clifford checked himself into the hospital late Thursday night with chest pain. The Bobcats havent said when they expect Clifford to return to the bench. "Unfortunately I didnt get my first win," Ewing said. "I was nervous at first but once the game started I was able to calm down and do my thing." The Knicks did their thing right from the opening tip, looking for the first time this season like the playoff team they were a year ago. After Tuesday nights 102-97 loss to the Bobcats, the Knicks held a players-only meeting. Whatever was said apparently worked. "Sometimes you need to get together and talk and communicate and figure out what the problem is, whats the issue," Anthony said. "We responded well tonight." The Knicks played with a passion thats been absent of late and drew the ire of owner James Dolan. Behind Anthony, who once led Syracuse to a national title, things looked a lot better. "We played like our backs were against the wall," Anthony said. "It was a must-win for us. This early in the season when you talk about must-wins, something obviously is going wrong. But we corrected that." Bargnani is a big reason why. Filling in at centre for the injured Tyson Chandler, Bargnani hit 11 of 25 shots from the field -- including three 3-pointers -- had eight rebounds and blocked five shots. It was his first 20-point game since March 4. Bargnani said he learned a lesson along the way. "Dont be hesitant and just play my game and go out there and do what Ive always done all these years," Bargnani said. "I got to be more aggressive on the offence." Said Anthony: "It seemed like tonight he wasnt hesitating and he had that shoot-first mentality, which I like." Kemba Walker, who led the Bobcats with 25 points, said thats where his team fell short. Walker said the Bobcats lack of energy, not Ewings coaching ability, is the reason Charlotte had its two-game win streak snapped. "Our energy level from the get go wasnt so great," Walker said. "I thought (Ewing) did great. It was us, the players. We are the ones on the court out there playing. We just have to pick up the intensity." The Knicks shot 75 per cent from the field in the third quarter -- including six of seven 3-point attempts -- to blow open a tight game and snap a three-game losing skid. Raymond Felton added 15 points for the Knicks (2-3). The Knicks opened an 18-point lead in the third quarter, but the Bobcats whittled it down to 10 at one point. The game changed after a Knicks timeout. Metta World Peace gave New York a boost by knocking down a 3-pointer, then making a steal and finding Tim Hardaway Jr. in transition for another 3. Pablo Prigionis 3 stretched the lead back to 19 and the Bobcats never challenged again. On Tuesday night, Anthony scored 32 points but shot just 10 of 32 against the Bobcats. He was more efficient in the rematch, shooting 12 of 22 with six assists. Anthony hurt the Bobcats in a variety of ways -- with fall-away jumpers, drives to the basket and with physical play inside outmuscling the younger, less experienced Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Jeffery Taylor in the low post for easy shots. Ewing has been an NBA assistant for 10 years, but this was his first game as a head coach. It came against a team that he played for from 1985-2000. "Coach Clifford and I have been friends for a lot of years -- weve worked together for over 10 years now -- and this is definitely not the way I wanted to start my head coaching career with him being in the hospital," Ewing said before the game. The 7-foot Ewing towered above over a group of smaller referees as he spoke with them periodically from the bench. He stayed calm for the most part, sitting and watching rather than standing and yelling. At one point he pleaded with officials for a goaltending call when Ramon Sessions drove to the basket and was fouled by raising his long right arm to signal the ball was on its way down. NOTES: The Bobcats entered as the second-worst free throw shooting team in the league, but hit 19 of 20 foul shots in the first half. ... The Bobcats continue to play without Al Jefferson, who is out with a sprained ankle. ... The Knicks shot 46 per cent from 3-point range. Seahawks Jersey . 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That ended Wachas scoreless streak at 18 2-3 innings -- a rookie record for a single post-season -- but it was all he gave up. Selected by St. Louis last year with the first-round draft pick received as compensation when Albert Pujols signed with the Los Angeles Angels, Wacha has been so good lately that a St. Louis restaurant he walked into had named a milkshake after him, the "Wacha Wacha." The 22-year-old right-hander, the NL championship series MVP after beating Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw twice, threw a career-high 114 pitches and allowed two runs, three hits and four walks in six innings with six strikeouts. He improved to 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in four outings this post-season, matching the amount of regular-season wins he has in his brief career. "They dont swing at bad pitches, really," Wacha said. "They did a good job tonight grinding out at-bats with me and got the pitch count up." Wachas parents and sister made the trip from Texarkana, Texas, and sat bundled in cold-weather clothes in the stands to watch the 19th pick in last years amateur draft. "He pitched outstanding," Molina said. "Just one pitch, to a great hitter like Big Papi." But then Lackey, who in 2002 with the Angels became the first rookie in 93 years to win a World Series seventh game, faltered in a three-run seventh. St. Louis went ahead when Matt Carpenter hit a sacrifice fly that led to a pair of runs, with the second scoring on errors by catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and reliever Craig Breslow -- both making their Series debuts. Beltran, an eight-time All-Star making his first Series appearance at age 36, followed with an RBI single. He had been sent to a hospital for scans Wednesday night after bruising ribs while banging into the right-field fence to rob Ortiz of a grand slam. Beltran appeared to be wearing protective padding under his jersey. "When I left the ballpark yesterday, I had very little hope that I was going to be in the lineup with the way I felt," he said. "When I woke up, I woke up feeling a little better. And I came to the ballpark, talked to the trainer. I was able to get treatment and talk to the doctors, and find a way to try anything I could try just to go out there and feel no pain." He said he took an injection of Toradol to block the pain for five or six hours. "The good thing is tomorrow I have the day off," he said. When the Series resumes Saturday night in St. Louis, Jake Peavy starts for the Red Sox and Joe Kelly for the Cardinals. Twenty-nine of the previous 55 teams that won Game 2 to tie the Seriess went on to take the title.dddddddddddd "Excited to get home. I know everybody is," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. St. Louis hard-throwing bullpen combined for one-hit relief. Carlos Martinez got six outs, retiring Mike Napoli on an inning-ending popup with two on in the eighth. Trevor Rosenthal struck out the side on 11 pitches in the ninth for a save, whiffing Daniel Nava with a 99 mph fastball to end it. All three St. Louis pitchers were 23 or younger. "It doesnt surprise me. Those guys got talent," Molina said. "Like I said before many times, theyre not afraid to pitch." Seeking its second championship in three seasons, St. Louis improved to 7-0 this post-season when scoring first and stopped Bostons World Series winning streak at nine. That run began with a sweep of the Cardinals in 2004, when St. Louis never led the entire Series. This years opener was more of the same, when the Cardinals made three errors and the Red Sox romped 8-1. Lackey, pitching a day after his 35th birthday, returned this year after missing all of 2012 due to elbow surgery and beat Cy Young Award winners David Price and Justin Verlander in the AL playoffs. In his first Series appearance since his Game 7 win 11 years earlier, he couldnt hold the lead Ortiz gave him with his 17th post-season homer, his fifth this year. David Freese walked with one out in the seventh and Jon Jay singled. Breslow relieved, and the Cardinals pulled off a double steal as pinch-runner Pete Kozma swiped third -- an uncharacteristically aggressive move for the Cardinals, who ranked last in the NL with 45 stolen bases this year. Daniel Descalso, who started at shortstop after Kozma made two errors in the opener, loaded the bases with a walk. Carpenter followed with a fly to medium left, and Jonny Gomes throw home was slightly to the first-base side of the plate as Kozma scored the tying run. The ball glanced off Saltalamacchias mitt as Jay took off for third. Breslow smartly backed up the plate -- hes likely the first major leaguer holding a degree from Yale with a major in molecular biophysics and biochemistry -- but he was slow to throw to third. And when he did let loose, the ball sailed over shortstop Stephen Drew covering the base and bounced into the stands. "It just kind of sailed on me," Breslow said. "Ive made a throw of that distance before." Jay came home with the go-ahead run, and Descalso raced to third. "Were human. It happens," Saltalamacchia said. "We saw them do the same thing last night. They shook it off and came out tonight and played well. Thats what were going to do." Beltran singled to right for a two-run lead. With a bullpen thats held opponents to a .169 average in the post-season, that was enough. "Weve got to go out there and play better than we did tonight," Ortiz said. "Nobody can dictate that youre going to win four straight games every time you go out there for the World Series." NOTES: The Red Sox had not lost in the Series since Game 7 in 1986 against the New York Mets. ... With no DH allowed in the NL ballpark, Boston manager John Farrell said Ortiz will likely play first base in Game 3. 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