Giants win; move past Reds in wild card
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Jonathan Sanchez won his first major league start and Ray Durham homered twice as the San Francisco Giants beat Cincinnati 3-2 Wednesday and moved past the Reds in the NL wild-card race.
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CHICAGO -- Todd Walker homered and drove in four runs, Carlos Zambrano won his fourth straight decision and the Chicago Cubs extended their lead in the NL wild-card race with a 12-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds tonight.
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Prince Fielder hit his NL-leading 26th home run, Yovani Gallardo dazzled in his major league debut and the Milwaukee Brewers held off the struggling San Francisco Giants 5-4 on Monday night.
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The San Francisco Giants snapped a seven-game road losing streak with a 9-5 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday, claiming victory despite giving home-run record chaser Barry Bonds the day off.
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Pedro Feliz scores from first base on Rich Aurilia's bloop single to give the Giants a 5-4 win over the Brewers, who have lost four in a row.
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The New York Giants' rousing road show powered through Tampa Bay. Now it heads to the only place where it flopped: Dallas. The Giants moved to 8-1 away from home with a dominating 24-14 NFC-wild-card playoff victory over Tampa Bay on Sunday.
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Chris Iannetta's two-run triple highlighted a seven-run third inning and the Colorado Rockies opened a crucial six-game homestand with a 7-4 win over the San Francisco Giants on Monday.
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ATLANTA -- Barry Bonds hit two mammoth two-run home runs -- giving him 696 -- and went 4-for-5 with six RBIs on Sunday night, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 9-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves.
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After last year&#39;s stunning NL Division Series loss to the Marlins, one of the major knocks on the Giants was their relative lack of speed and their inability to put pressure on the opposing team.
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Kirk Rueter allowed just three hits over seven innings and J.T. Snow homered as the San Francisco Giants scored a crucial 4-2 win over Los Angeles in National League play at Dodger Stadium Friday.
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Edgardo Alfonzo hit a two-run homer off Randy Johnson in the sixth inning, and the Giants tied the Chicago Cubs atop the National League wild-card standings with a 4-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday in San Francisco.
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SAN DIEGO -- With their chances in the NL West looking bleaker, the San Francisco Giants at least gave themselves a big boost in the wild card race.
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The Giants outhit the Rockies, 16-5...Bonds is now one walk shy of the major league record of 198, which he set in 2002...San Francisco won the season series from Colorado, 11-8.
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Todd Walker homered and drove in four runs, Carlos Zambrano won his fourth straight decision and the Chicago Cubs extended their lead in the NL wild-card race with a 12-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.
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Shea Hillenbrand homered for the second straight game for No. 100 in his career and Noah Lowry won back-to-back starts for the first time all season, leading the San Francisco Giants past the Cincinnati Reds 4-1 Saturday.
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Rookie Nate Schierholtz ended San Francisco's season-long eight-game losing streak with a two-out RBI single in the 13th inning, giving the Giants a 6-5 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday.
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Barry Bonds goes 0-for-2 and draws two walks, one of them intentional, in San Francisco's 3-2 victory over Milwaukee, keeping the Giants in the wild-card lead.