Giants Pull to Within 1/2 Game of 1st
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The San Francisco Giants moved within a half-game of first-place Los Angeles in the NL West and maintained a half-game lead over the Chicago Cubs in the wild-card race by beating the Houston Astros 5-1 Wednesday night. The Giants are 9-1 in their last 10 games, with Noah Lowry winning three times...
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The Giants crushed the 49ers with a big-play defense that forced four turnovers. The Giants are now 5-2 for the fourth season in a row under Coach Tom Coughlin.
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The loss dropped the Giants to 7-7, but left them in the thick of the playoff chase with two games remaining.
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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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The Giants on offense looked effortless in spurts, but were slowed in vital spots, often by their own mistakes and penalties. But the teamâs defense was the biggest concern on Sunday.
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J.T. Snow singled in the winning run with one out in the ninth to lead the San Francisco Giants to their sixth straight victory, 5-4, over the visiting Montreal Expos last night.
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In the Tom Coughlin Era, the Giants have almost always been steeped in a back-page saga. On Sunday, they functioned for a normal cause: winning.
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Detroit's victory dented a lot of the assumptions about the Giants' 4-1 start, the first and most important being the rise of what had looked like a playoff-caliber defense.
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The San Francisco Giants weren&#39;t able to add a veteran starting pitcher for the September stretch drive. The last thing they needed was to have one go down.
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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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Barry Bonds hit a two-run home run in the first inning to support a strong effort by Kirk Rueter and help the San Francisco Giants beat the visiting New York Mets 3-1 on Sunday.
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Flat doesn't begin to describe the New York Giants' start to their supposed showdown with Seattle. Flattened is more like it.
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Jerome Williams pitched seven strong innings in his first start in two months and the San Francisco Giants jumped back into a tie for the wild-card lead by beating the San Diego Padres 4-1 on Thursday night.
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Each time Matt Cain has taken the mound against San Diego this season, the game has been meaningful. He has pitched well every outing &#151; and his latest gem helped the Giants gain ground on their division rival in the wild card race. Cain carried a no-hit bid into the sixth on the way to his fourth straight victory, and San Francisco pulled within 2 1/2 games of the NL wild-card leading Padres with a 4-0 win Friday night.
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For quite some time there, Barry Bonds wasn&#39;t the only sure thing the Giants had going for them. They also had a 300-save closer available in Robb Nen, night after night and year after year.
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The Giants feel better than their place in the standings might warrant, mostly because of how they beat the Redskins: scoring 21 consecutive second-half points and staging a last-minute goal-line stand.
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The Giants wanted to take Seattle's roaring, allegedly enhanced crowd out of the game early. Plunging into the deepest first-half hole in their 82-year history probably wasn't what New York had in mind.