The St. Louis Cardinals will face elimination on Thursday night against the San Francisco Giants with Adam Wainwright on the mound.

"I like pitching here," Wainwright said of San Francisco's AT&T Park. "I think every pitcher likes pitching here. I do think that there's an advantage for playing in this park all the time like the Giants do. They know the wind and they know what the bounces are going to do.

"One great defense against all [of] that is keeping the ball on the ground. You just never see the wind push a ground ball through the hole or out of the park. That's our goal -- to try to keep these guys on the ground and get quick outs."

Wainwright is 3-4 with a 3.18 ERA in seven career appearances in San Francisco.