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TEMPE, Ariz. - Now its rookie Logan Thomas turn to run the Arizona Cardinals offence.When he takes the field Sunday in San Francisco, the fourth-round draft pick from Virginia Tech will be Arizonas fourth starting quarterback this season.Not exactly the recipe for success.But after the offence sputtered with Ryan Lindley at the controls in last weeks debacle against Seattle, coach Bruce Arians decided to give Thomas a chance, for a little while at least.Definitely some excitement, Thomas said. First chance to play out one of my dreams and its a huge honour.Potentially this is not a meaningless game. If St. Louis upsets the Rams in Seattle, the Cardinals would win the NFC West with a victory over the 49ers.Arians says hell be watching that Rams-Seahawks score and make personnel decisions accordingly.Well just see how the games go, Arians said after Wednesdays practice. We want to win the game, though. I want to look at some guys, see how theyre feeling and be smart about it.So there could be a quarterback change in the second half?Yeah, Arians said. I mean everything is based on winning the game and then being smart.Arians said Drew Stantons sprained right knee is getting better and better, but if he suited up Sunday it would be as a backup. Otherwise, Lindley is the only other option.Thomas has appeared in a game once this season, when Stanton went down with a concussion at Denver on Oct. 5 and Carson Palmer already was out with a shoulder injury. He threw eight passes. One was an 81-yard touchdown to Andre Ellington. The other seven fell incomplete. He was sacked twice.The rest of the season hes been running the scout team, pretending to be whoever the quarterback of the next opponent is. He played the role of the 49ers Colin Kaepernick back in Week 3.Yeah, not look like him, just try and play like him, Thomas said. I didnt have any tattoos on or anything like that. I didnt have to paint them on.The Cardinals had no intention of playing Thomas at all in his rookie season. He was a big, strong-armed project, with a need to work on his footwork, accuracy and passing touch.But circumstances required otherwise.When Palmer went down with a season-ending knee injury, the job went to Stanton. Then two games ago, Stanton sprained his knee. Arians decided to go with Lindley — signed off the San Diego practice squad when Palmer was hurt — last week against the tough Seattle defence rather than throw Thomas into the fray.The results werent pretty. The Seahawks rolled on the road 35-6. That left Arizona and Seattle both 11-4, with the Seahawks holding the tiebreaker by virtue of two wins over the Cardinals.Barring any upsets, Arizona will be the No. 5 seed in the NFC and travel to either Carolina or Atlanta.The ever-blunt Arians said Thomas had a shaky start to practice Wednesday, but finished up strong.He wants to see the quarterback control the offence.Knowing why hes throwing the ball, where its going and doing it accurately, Arians said, but the big thing is getting to the right guy through his progression. That was part of the beginning of this practice, then he got better and better.Thomas talked about the difficulties of Arians offence, the hots and sights and then with the reads.But the guys around me have done a great job of making me comfortable, Thomas said. They just say, Hey, go out there and be confident, put it out there and well make plays for you. We have a great corps of receivers, a great offensive line, and the tailbacks are playing well right now.Those guys have picked me up and carried me when Im down. Hopefully, Ill do the same for them.Things cant get a whole lot worse for the offence: Arizona failed to score a touchdown in its last two games.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.organd AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP_NFL Andrew Heaney Jersey . -- Golden State Warriors reserve centre Ognjen Kuzmic is expected to miss at least six weeks after undergoing surgery on his fractured right hand. Huston Street Jersey . Abduraimova had not won a tour-level match since 2009 but was a wild-card entry in Tashkent and broke her opponent twice in each set to reach the second round. 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Bumgarner has followed up a terrific regular season with an equally impressive postseason, as he has won two of his three starts and has allowed just two earned runs in 23 2/3 innings. He was phenomenal in his Game 1 start versus the Cards, scattering just four hits and striking out seven over 7 2/3 scoreless innings. Dating back to the 2012 World Series, the left-handers playoff ERA stands at 0.59, with 31 strikeouts and just five walks. Opposing batters are hitting .152 off him over that stretch. Overall, hes 5-3 in 10 postseason appearances with a 2.58 ERA I think without question, hes better (than he used to be), Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. In this game, you never arrive. You never stop trying to improve as a player, and thats who he is. You look at his pitches, he has a better changeup, a better breaking ball. I think hes commanding his fastball better. I think hes smarter out there. I mean, he was really good when he came up. He did a great job for us. But if you ask me now, sure, I think hes improved overall as a pitcher, the way he holds runners, swings the bat. He had a good year offensively. All these things make you a better player. If there was no Clayton Kershaw we may very well be talking about an NL Cy Young Award this season for Bumgarner, who set career-high marks in wins (18) and strikeouts (219) and pitched to a 2.98 ERA. St. Louis will also be throwing its ace on Thursday, but Adam Wainwright has been anything but the Cardinals best pitcher this postseason, going 0-1 with an 8.00 ERA in two starts. He hasnt gotten out of the fifth inning in either of his two starts and in Game 1 against the Giants he allowed three runs (2 earned) and six hits with three walks in just 4 2/3 innings. No, I have not been very proud of my starts this year in the postseason so far, said Wainwright. I also know that I was doing my very best. There was no point in time where I wasnt as prepared as Ive ever been for a start, and my arm just didnt respond like I wanted it to. But Im very confident going forward. Like Bumgarner, Wainwright figures to be amongst the NL Cy Young Award finalists afteer going 20-9 with a 2.dddddddddddd.38 ERA this season. Still, no pitcher in baseball has thrown more innings since the start of the 2013 season than Wainwright, who has logged almost 513 (including the postseason). Nobody else wed rather have on the mound, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. We dont look at it in series. We havent done that all season. We look at it as a game. They are letting us play again tomorrow. We can control tomorrow, and Adam Wainwright is going to set the tone for us. Everybodys got to follow suit and jump in and figure out a way to make it happen. San Francisco moved one step closer to another NL pennant on Wednesday, as Buster Posey finished with three RBI and the Giants overcame an early deficit to pull out a 6-4 win. The Giants bullpen, led by Yusmeiro Petit (1-0), only allowed one runner past first base over the final six innings, while its offense quietly pounded out 11 hits -- nine singles -- en route to a commanding 3-1 series lead. San Francisco followed a familiar script, as two of its runs scored in the pivotal three-run sixth inning came without the benefit of a hit. In fact, they have scored 12 of their last 22 runs without recording a hit. When you put the ball in play, good things happen, Bochy said. If youre not hitting long balls, you have to find ways to manufacture runs. Kolten Wong homered in the loss for the Cardinals, giving them 13 home runs this postseason. We have a tough road ahead of us, Wong said. Bumgarner is one of the toughest pitchers around, and its definitely going to be a big challenge for us. But we have a lot of confidence in our guy. Of course, the Cardinals held a 3-1 series lead over the Giants in the 2012 NLCS only to see San Francisco rally back and win the final three games en route to their World Series title. San Francisco is 15-5 at home in the NLCS, the best winning percentage of any major league team with at least 10 games of LCS play. They are riding a five- game winning streak at AT&T Park in NLCS play and have won 14 of their past 17 at home dating to 1987. The Giants took four of their seven meetings during the season with the Cardinals, outscoring them, 30-20. San Francisco has played the Cardinals three other times in the playoffs. St. Louis edged the Giants in a thrilling seven-game series in 1987, but San Francisco has beaten the Cards both in 2002 and 2012. 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