SAN FRANCISCO — Seventeen of the 25 players the Cardinals will have in uniform for Sunday night’s Game 6 of the National League Championship Series — which they lead, three games to two, over the Giants — have been developed in their farm system.

The Cardinals won the World Series in 2011, and to get back a year later would be quite a feat. And if they can pull that off, they could become the first National League team since the 1975-76 Reds to win back-to-back Fall Classics.