St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa played the numbers for Game 2, carefully examining home and road statistics before choosing Jaime Garcia as his starting pitcher. The decision puts Garcia in line to return for Game 6 at Busch Stadium. He went 9-4 with a 2.55 earned-run average during the regular season in 15 starts at Busch and was just 4-3 with a 4.61 ERA on the road. "You don't have a lot of information with a guy like Jaime, who's in his second year. The one thing you do have is he's pitched well at home, so you go with that," La Russa said. "When you're trying to find an edge, that's one of the angles you play." Garcia is 0-2 with a 5.74 ERA in three post-season starts. He lost 3-2 at home against Philadelphia in Game 3 of the division series and 9-6 at Milwaukee in the National League Championship Series opener. Garcia didn't get a decision in Game 5, allowing one run in 4 2/3 innings as the Cardinals won 7-1. Colby Lewis will pitch Game 2 for Texas. He started Game 3 in the first round of the AL playoffs at Tampa Bay and at Detroit in the American League Championship Series, beating the Rays 4-3 and losing to the Tigers 5-2. He was 5-5 with a 5.54 ERA at home this season and 9-5 with a 3.43 ERA on the road. Last year, he was 6-4 with a 3.41 ERA at home and 6-9 with a 3.95 ERA away. "Just a new year. Things are different," Lewis said. Unlike his counterpart, Rangers manager Ron Washington said he didn't pay attention to stats. "It just was coincidence," he said. "It's not anything I look at because at this point I trust every one of my guys."