Giants, Astros Remain Tied for Wild Card
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The San Francisco Giants kept pace with Houston in the wild-card race, and gave themselves an outside chance of overtaking Los Angeles in the NL West.
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are ahead of Larry Bowa&#39;s team in the chase for the wild card. The Phillies. have 19 games to play, including 12 against teams with under-.
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SAN DIEGO (Ticker) -- The San Francisco Giants resume their fight for a playoff spot in the second game of their series with the San Diego Padres, who are on the verge of being eliminated from the race.
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San Francisco climbs within 1 1/2 games of the Dodgers in the West and half a game back in the wild-card race. San Francisco - Pedro Feliz and the San Francisco Giants showed they can win even the biggest games without Barry Bonds&#39; bat.
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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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(Sports Network) - Roger Clemens tries to win his seventh straight decision and possibly vault the Houston Astros into the lead in the National League wild card standings, as they go for a three-game sweep of the NL Central champion St.
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What happens if the Dodgers, Giants and Astros all finish the season with the same record, leaving the NL West and the NL Wild Card winners undecided?
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The Houston Astros used a Jeff Bagwell home run and a gutsy pitching effort by its bullpen to beat the Colorado Rockies 4-2 Friday and hold on to its lead in the National League wild card race.
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Padres general manager Kevin Towers expects the last-place San Francisco Giants to be back in the division race by the trade deadline next month. The Giants' last three games have given them the confidence it could happen, even though they trail NL West-leading Arizona by 10 games.
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Lance Berkman hit a three-run homer off Dustin Hermanson in the ninth inning, and the Houston Astros rallied from a late three-run deficit for a 7-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night.
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Barry Bonds hit his 699th home run, and the San Francisco Giants regained the wild-card lead with a 5-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday in Phoenix.
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The National League wild-card race got even tighter over the weekend, with the Chicago Cubs and San Diego tied for the lead and San Francisco less than one percentage point behind.
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The San Francisco Giants need Jason Schmidt to bounce back from his recent struggles as they try to catch the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West and hold off the Chicago Cubs in the wild-card race.
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The streaking Houston Astros used seven  pitchers and a Jeff Bagwell home run to beat the Colorado  Rockies 4-2 Friday to hold on to their lead in the National  League wild card race.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The Houston Astros have control over their own fate when they visit SBC Park for a three-game series against the San Francisco Giants.
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The Houston Astros are hitting their way into the NL wild-card race.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Pedro Feliz hit a tiebreaking grand slam with two outs in the eighth inning for his fourth hit of the day, and the Giants helped their playoff chances with a 9-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday.    The first-place Dodgers had their NL West lead trimmed to 1 1/2 games over the Giants, who also pulled within a half-game of Chicago in the wild-card race after the Cubs lost 4-3 to the New York Mets in 11 innings...