The St. Louis Cardinals were delayed by more than seven hours as they traveled to Boston on Tuesday, not arriving until shortly before midnight.

The team remained in the plane during the delay and kept themselves occupied.

"I can't tell you how impressed I was with how everybody handled it," Mike Matheny said of his club. "We travel a lot, so you kind of anticipate that everything is going to go smooth and it has all season. And you get to this time of year, and things kind of went in a different direction.

"It was amazing how the guys handled that long of a time, especially as we had lots of family, lots of kids. I didn't hear any complaining at all. Normally guys are, even if they're just in jest, they're still throwing some things out there, but we didn't hear anything."

Matheny insisted that the issues won't have an affect on the Cardinals heading into a must-win Game 6 at Fenway Park.

"I don't think it really does," he said. "We've been resilient, but you take what comes and we adjust and get ready for the next day."

The Cardinals had not planned to work out on Tuesday, so the delay only meant arriving to Boston later than expected.

"Yeah, we messed around on Twitter, looked at tweets," pitcher Joe Kelly said. "#CardinalsPlaneProblems was going around, which was pretty funny. We had a good time with it. We enjoyed it. We don't want to do it all the time, but it wasn't that bad."