Cardinals Game 5

St. Louis Cardinals (+121) @ Washington Nationals

• I was going to do a big long detail description for the game and even started doing it and then decided against it....instead here are some bullet points.
  
  • I believe that if the Cardinals can be patient they will get runners on base vs Gonzalez who showed that he could be walk-friendly having 7 walks in just 5 innings in game 1.  
  • I also believe that postseason experience will come into play here, the Nationals did get a taste of being on the brink of elimination and in fact it was the Cardinals that looked inexperienced down the stretch with their line of strikeouts.  But I believe that it will be different come tomorrow's game as the Cardinals seem to prefer playing as the underdogs anyways.
  • I believe that if the Cardinals can score 4 runs they should be in good shape to win this game, so focusing on advancing runners after walks and doing their best to just nickel and dime a run here and there should be good enough.  (turns out the o/u for the game is set at 7 so that seems to fit in with what I was thinking anyways) ((well now it seems that 4 runs will in fact not be enough so the Cardinals need to stop leaving runners in scoring position and make this comeback happen))
  • I expect the Cardinals to come away with the win in this game, as I believe that there will be more opportunities for the Cardinals due to nerves and lack of experience on the side of the Nationals and I would be surprised to see St. Louis be unable to take advantage enough to pull out a win and advance to play San Francisco.