The Cardinals, faced with a sudden-death chance to sneak into the National League Division Series, made an expected move by trimming some of their pitching staff for more bench reinforcements. As B.J. Rains reported, Mike Matheny has announced his roster for a critical showdown in Atlanta at 4pm central time on Friday.

Here are your Wild Card Game Cardinals:

INFIELDERS

• Yadier Molina
• Tony Cruz
• Bryan Anderson
• Allen Craig
• Daniel Descalso
• Skip Schumaker
• Pete Kozma
• Ryan Jackson
• David Freese
• Matt Carpenter

OUTFIELDERS

• Matt Holliday
• Carlos Beltran
• Jon Jay
• Shane Robinson
• Adron Chambers

PITCHERS

• Kyle Lohse (starter)
• Lance Lynn
• Jason Motte
• Mitchell Boggs
• Edward Mujica
• Joe Kelly
• Fernando Salas
• Trevor Rosenthal
• Marc Rzepczynski (L)
• Sam Freeman (L)

For obvious reasons, Adam Wainwright, Jaime Garcia, and Chris Carpenter will not be available for this one-game circus act. That would indicate that Matheny intends to use a rotation of Waino / Garcia / Carpenter / Lohse / Waino if/when the Cardinals reach the NLDS.