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Redbirds, Giants clash tonight, seek Wild life
- Updated: September 15, 2016
In what must seem like déjà vu for two perennial postseason contenders, the Giants and Cardinals will clash in a critical four-game series starting Thursday night at AT&T Park.
With just over two weeks left in the regular season, San Francisco and St. Louis are neck-and-neck in the National League Wild Card standings, and their showdown this week will have all the feel of a postseason matchup.
After all, these two teams have been there before. Both franchises have won multiple World Series since 2000 — the Giants three, the Cardinals two — and on several occasions, their routes through October have put them on a collision course.
The Giants and Cardinals have met in the NL Championship Series three times this millennium, in 2002, ’12 and ’14. Each time, the Giants came out on top in a dramatic series.
San Francisco won the 2014 NLCS in five games, but two of the Giants’ wins were walk-offs, including in the deciding Game 5, when the Giants rallied to win in the ninth inning on Travis Ishikawa’s series-ending three-run homer.
In 2012, the series was much closer. It went the full seven games, and the Giants fought back from the brink of elimination, a 3-games-to-1 deficit, to win …
