St. Louis at San Francisco

October baseball can mean more defense and low scoring games than usual for a lot of reasons. The best pitchers start the game as well as coming out of the pen as so much is at stake. Managers can pull starters in the middle of the season of a 6-1 game saving his best arms for the next day, but that doesn't happen in the postseason as we saw the Cardinals roar back several times over the last year from big October deficits. Now, we have a Game six with a lot at stake for the Cardinals and EVERYTHING at stake for San Francisco -- win or take a five month vacation! Two of the last three games have gone UNDER the total and the Giants go with Ryan Volgelsong, who has allowed 1 run in each of his last two starts (12 innings). He is a veteran who has faced the Cardinals twice this season and allowed 1 run in 14 innings. The Cardinals have a reliable veteran starter as well, in 37-year-old Chris Carpenter, who has thrown well. He finished the regular season with a 3.71 ERA and 1.12 WHIP in the three starts he made and has allowed 2 earned runs in his last two starts (9+ innings). San Francisco is a good pitcher's park and the UNDER is 4-1 in Vogelsong's last five starts as well as 23-8-1 UNDER the total in his last 32 home starts. Umpire Jerry Layne has a liberal strike zone and note that the UNDER is 8-1-1 in Layne's last ten games behind home plate with San Francisco, plus 10-3-2 UNDER the total in his last 15 games behind home plate with St. Louis. Play the Cardinals/Giants Game Six UNDER the total.