Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants continue their best-of-seven National League Championship Series with Game 4 action live from AT&T Park in San Francisco. The game can be live streamed for free here. St. Louis fans can hear all of the action on KMOX 1120 while San Francisco fans can do the same on KNBR 680.
After a crucial Game 3 walk-off win, San Francisco looks to take a 3-1 series lead while St. Louis is hopeful to bounce back from a rough loss and tie up the series at 2-2.
The Giants took Game 3 from the Cardinals after Gregor Blanco bunted the ball in the 10th inning and Cardinals pitcher Randy Choate threw the ball away, allowing shortstop Brandon Crawford to come home with the winning run to give San Francisco a 5-4 win and 2-1 series lead.
The Giants took Game 1 with a 3-0 shutout win while the Cardinals pounded four homers in Game 2 -- including a walk-off by rookie Kolten Wong -- and won the contest 5-4. San Francisco jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning of Game 4, but St. Louis came all the way back before falling in the 10th.
Shelby Miller toes the rubber for the Cardinals in Game 4 after going 10-9 with a 3.74 ERA in the regular season and holding the Los Angeles Dodgers to two runs on five hits in 5.2 innings pitched in the NLDS. He pitched to a no-decision in that game in a contest St. Louis eventually won.
Miller has yet to reach a decision in four games (one start) in his postseason career and owns a 4.50 ERA.
The Giants counter with Ryan Vogelsong, who went 8-13 with a 4.00 ERA in the 2014 regular season and held the Washington Nationals to one run on two hits through 5.2 innings while getting a no-decision in the NLDS in a game San Francisco won. Vogelsong is 3-0 with a 1.19 ERA in five playoff starts in his career.
In a 2-1 series hole, the Cardinals -- who made it to the World Series in 2013 and are playing in their fourth straight NLCS -- are confident they can rebound.
"We have to move on to the next game," Wong told MLB.com. "We're still confident that we can take this, and we're going to keep pushing."
One thing St. Louis should be confident in is its bats as Randal Grichuk's solo homer in Game 3 was the Cardinals 12th of the postseason and fifth of the series. The RedBirds are hopeful that catcher and team MVP Yadier Molina (oblique) will be eligible to return soon, but he remains day-to-day.
The Cardinals have four homers from third baseman Matt Carpenter in the postseason, but he is just 2-for-8 in the NLCS with a homer, an RBI and three strikeouts.
The Giants have relied on small ball more than the long ball in the series, but it worked in the 10th inning of Game 3.
As the Giants seek two wins for their third trip to the World Series in five seasons, third baseman Pablo Sandoval extended his streak of reaching base safely in the postseason to 21 games Tuesday night, matching a Giants franchise record.
"We don't focus on personal records or team records," Sandoval said via MLB.com. "We focus on winning. The record? It doesn't matter. What's important is winning games in the postseason."
Travis Ishikawa has been clutch for San Francisco in this series and is hitting .600 (3-for-5) with a double and an RBI.
The Giants look to take a commanding 3-1 series lead while the Cardinals hope to even things up 2-2 when these teams take the field tonight at AT&T Park in San Francisco for NLCS Game 4 action.
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