Giants Clobber Astros 5-1
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Noah Lowry is pitching nothing like a 23-year-old rookie. Lowry won his sixth straight decision and remained unbeaten in 13 major league starts, and Ray Durham hit a two-run double to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 5-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday night.
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The Giants showed on Saturday that they can win even the biggest games without Barry Bonds&#39;s bat. Pedro Feliz hit a tie-breaking grand slam with two outs
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By the time Carlos Beltran's shot landed in Houston's bullpen, this much was clear: At least baseball had one competitive playoff series still going. Beltran did it again, homering in a record fifth straight postseason game and lifting the Astros over the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 Sunday to even the NL championship series at 2-all.
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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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The streaking Houston Astros edged the   Philadelphia Phillies 5-4 on Monday to close within striking   distance of NL Central leaders St Louis.
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Pedro Feliz bludgeoned a  tie-breaking grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the  eighth inning to hand the San Francisco Giants a 9-5 win over  the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Saturday.
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Dustin Pedroia spoiled Barry Bonds&#39;  first visit to Fenway Park with five hits and five RBI as the  Red Sox mauled the San Francisco Giants 10-2 in Interleague  play on Friday.
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The San Francisco Giants are on their best roll yet, and they finally found their new first baseman well before the trading deadline.
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Carlos Beltran homered for a playoff-record fifth straight game as the Houston Astros beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-5.
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Another solid outing from Cole Hamels and timely situational hitting helped the Philadelphia Phillies end their losing skid. Backed by three sacrifice flies, Hamels pitched his second complete game to lead the Phillies over the San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Saturday night.
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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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Jose Vidro hit a three-run homer and the Washington Nationals beat Houston 8-5 Thursday despite seven stolen bases by the Astros.
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Houston's Craig Biggio surpasses 3,000 hits and Carlos Lee hits a walk-off grand slam in the 11th inning to give the Astros a 8-5 win over Colorado.
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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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While the Giants lost Tiki Barberâs star power, they have replaced it will full constellations of lower-wattage performers and have won five games in a row.
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The way the Houston Astros have been swinging the bats lately, even Jason Jennings has benefited. Carlos Lee homered and drove in four runs, Hunter Pence had three hits with a tiebreaking two-run shot, and the Astros beat the Los Angeles Angels 9-5 Tuesday night.
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Barry Bonds barely missed his 751st home run. That fifth-inning at-bat was the only chance he got, too. The San Francisco slugger settled for an RBI double and also walked three times in the Giants' 4-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night, which snapped a three-game skid.