An abundance of pitchers!!
If I'm the Texas Rangers' manager, I'm thinking---we'll have a handful against Chris Carpenter, sure, but we may get a bigger handful against the bullpen bulls. (Both teams have solid bullpens but my nickel has to go to the Cardinals' pen right now.) And I'll be telling my men, even against Carpenter if they should spot a flaw or a problem early, "Get your runs now---the bull market is about to open!" Get the Cardinal starters early and often, and as heavy as you can get away with before La Russa opens his bullpen, and the Rangers---who have the bats to do it---have a chance.
If I'm the Cardinals, I'm thinking the same way with a catch: the Texas starters haven't gotten deep into games this postseason either. And the catch in their bullpen this postseason is that they have a couple of guys who've been starters and were moved to the pen for the postseason, and if one of them is in shutdown mode the Ranger pen may be a tough nut to crack, too. If I'm Tony La Russa, I'm thinking---chase their starters, then jump the bullpen as soon as you can, neutralise those long men and make them waste their short men, since I've got the depth of short men to run them in and out and maybe neutralise the Rangers' bat versatility.
As I said, this one's going to be anything but a short Serious unless somebody makes a big mistake.