Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals continue their best-of-seven National League Championship Series live from Busch Stadium in St. Louis with Game 2 action. The game can be live streamed for free here. San Francisco fans can hear all of the action on KNBR 680 while St. Louis fans can do the same on KMOX 1120.
San Francisco looks to take a 2-0 series lead before the NLCS shifts back home while St. Louis will look for a key win in its own stadium to make this a best-of-five series.
The Giants picked up a 3-0 win on Saturday night as Madison Bumgarner out-dueled Adam Wainwright, allowing no runs on four hits in 7.2 innings pitched while adding seven strikeouts compared to just one walk.
San Francisco sends Jake Peavy, who won a World Series last season with the Boston Red Sox, to the mound in Game 2 while St. Louis counters with Lance Lynn.
Peavy went 7-13 overall this season with a 3.73 ERA while he was 6-4 with the Giants after being traded from Boston to go along with a 2.17 ERA. Peavy held the Washington Nationals scoreless through 5.2 innings in the NLDS while yielding just two hits.
Lynn was 15-10 with a 2.74 ERA in the regular season and allowed two runs on seven hits against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS en route to a no-decision. Lynn has plenty of postseason experience, owning a 5-4 record in 22 games.
Peavy expects Lynn to be on his 'A' game tonight.
"Lance is fairly young [at 27], but he's been with the St. Louis Cardinals, he's been in these situations before," Peavy told MLB.com. "With that experience, I'm sure he's going to give us all we can handle tomorrow night."
The Cardinals will look to get their bats going against Peavy after a quiet night Saturday in Game 1.
"This time of year," Matheny said, "it comes down to the hot team, and it also comes down to hot hitters."
Outfielder Jon Jay had half of the Cardinals hits on Saturday night on two singles and will look to stay hot in Game 2.
Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval continued to stay hot in October as he's known to do. Sandoval had a double, two singles and a walk in Game 1 while first baseman Brandon Belt and Travis Ishikawa each drove in runs in the victory.
While the Cardinals lineup was silent Saturday, it does boast a long-ball threat in third baseman Matt Carpenter, who launched three homers in the NLDS.
The Giants look to take a 2-0 series lead while the Cardinals hope to even things up when these teams clash in NLCS Game 2 tonight live from Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
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