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The Mercury News
| 8 months ago
Barry Zito and his bat earned the Giants pitching staff a place in the record book Wednesday night. Overshadowed by Pablo Sandoval's monster night, Zito delivered a fourth-inning single that made it four consecutive postseason games in which a San...
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GMA News
| 8 months ago
If the San Francisco Giants are able to claim their second World Series title in three years it is unlikely they will do it the easy way...The Giants have had to overcome six do-or-die games during Major League Baseball's 2012 postseason. "Finding a...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
The San Francisco Giants are rich with it and that is why they seem destined to claim their second World Series title in three years. In fact, don't count out the Giants should they fall behind in the upcoming Fall Classic against the Detroit Tigers.
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
What was he doing in Houston and Philadelphia, and before that growing up in Texas, when he was born to be a Giant?...Pence is an adventure waiting to happen, the kid who pesters his parents and tortures his third-grade teachers with constant...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
There was plenty of speculation about retaliation after Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, when Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday's aggressive take-out slide left Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro with an injured hip. But Holliday...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
The theme of the Giants ' three-win comeback over the Cardinals was fortitude and a refusal to die. All of that might have been true, but there was a simple baseball angle, too. They pitched, hit and fielded better than the defending World Series...
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The Herald
| 8 months ago
Louis Cardinals on Monday at AT&T Park, winning 9-0 in Game 7 of the National League championship series to complete a second straight historic comeback and advance to the World Series for the second time in three seasons. The Giants are the first...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Louis Cardinals couldn't overcome injuries to outfielders Carlos Beltran, Matt Holliday Cardinals' deep lineup and bench, rich with powerful and patient hitters, managed one run in 18 innings...Wondering what happened to the Cardinals' offense in...
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Contra Costa Times
| 8 months ago
Before leaving the mound Monday night, Matt Cain gave Matt Holliday something to remember him by...If that pitch left a bruise, the rest of what Cain did in Game 7 is going to leave a more permanent mark. Adding to his growing legend, he pitched the...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
San Francisco, October 22, The Giants , the 2010 World Series winners, trailed last year's champion Cardinals 3-1 in the best-of-seven series but completed three straight victories by a combined score of 20-1 to win the National League championship...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
They cheated the reaper over and over by living the motto, "Play for each other, play for tomorrow." Now, they have earned at least four more tomorrows and brought another pennant to San Francisco. The Giants are going to the World Series for the...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
As the National League Championship Series drew to its end, Pablo Sandoval had become one of the Giants ' biggest impact hitters...Sandoval played in only six of the Giants' 15 postseason games in their championship run two years ago. He was out of...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
San Francisco Giants Marco Scutaro (C) is hugged by teammates Hunter Pence (R) and Brandon Crawford after defeating the St...San Francisco Giants center fielder Angel Pagan (16) slides safe into home to score in the first inning against the St...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Phillip/AP Sergio Romo and catcher Buster Posey look like they just clinched the National League title...The unfathomable choke that ended with the Cardinals losing, TK, to the Giants in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series Monday began...
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The Orange County Register
| 8 months ago
Rookie shortstop Pete Kozma moved to his right, only to watch the ball off Hunter Pence's broken bat inexplicably change directions when the shattered barrel hit the ball a second and then third time. Three runs scored on a play that just about...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
The Giants, for the second time in three seasons, are your National League Champions...In the first winner-take-all Game 7 in San Francisco in 50 years, a scenario in which the franchise had never won, against a St. Louis Cardinals team that has...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
On Monday, it was the Giants who earned a trip to the Fall Classic by winning three-straight games, and Game Seven wasn't even close as San Francisco hit St. Louis starter Kyle Lohse early and often at AT&T Park for a convincing win, 9-0. The win...
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Contra Costa Times
| 8 months ago
Louis Cardinals on Monday, winning 9-0 in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series to complete a second straight historic comeback and advance to the World Series for the second time in three seasons. The Giants are the first team in MLB...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
San Francisco Giants manager Bruce San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval San Francisco Giants' Angel Pagan St...AP) In a postseason full of twists and turns, the San Francisco Giants are headed back to the World Series after a big comeback against...
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The Idaho Statesman
| 8 months ago
Hunter Pence doubled home two runs with a slicing, broken-bat hit during a five-run third inning that chased Kyle Lohse, and the San Francisco Giants took a 7-0 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals through three innings in the decisive Game 7 of the NL...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
With outfielder Matt Holliday healthy enough to play, the St. Louis Cardinals left noted Matt Cain nemesis Matt Carpenter on the bench for Game 7 on Monday night. Carpenter sat despite being 5 for 6 in his career against Cain, including a two-run...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
While forecasts had called for rain, it is currently mostly sunny with partly cloudy skies over AT&T Park in advance of tonight's Game 7 of the National League Championship Series between the Giants and St...The National Weather Service was still...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 8 months ago
Louis Cardinals will play a deciding Game 7 in the National League Championship Series on Monday at AT&T Park. Everyone seems to be throwing bouquets the Cardinals' way for their resiliency this postseason, but how about the never-say-die attitude of...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
This is the time of year baseball executives sift through the discard bin, looking for useful, inexpensive pieces that add needed inventory. They might bear down a little more than usual this week, as Ryan Vogelsong demonstrated Sunday night the...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
Louis Cardinals will play a deciding Game 7 in the National League Championship Series on Monday at AT&T Park. San Francisco improved to 5-0 in elimination games this postseason on Sunday, as Ryan Vogelsong stifled St. Louis over seven splendid...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
After dominating in the first two postseason starts of his long career, Ryan Vogelsong said it was too early to say he was a big-game pitcher...Vogelsong was unhittable for much of a 6-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at AT&T Park that sent the...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Watching Marco Scutaro get barreled into by Matt Holliday beyond the second-base bag in Game 2, some Giants fans might have felt a little numb. A form of the word "numb" helps describe Scutaro's performance in the National League Championship Series:...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
When it comes to elimination games, not many teams are better than the Giants , who have won five in a row...They've won their past six elimination games, matching the longest such run in postseason history. "We've been in this situation before,"...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Ryan Vogelsong, who goes into an ornery self-imposed silence on days he pitches, so that one is left to guess what's behind the stone face, made his intentions known early Sunday. The right-hander came out pumping fastballs, 12 in a row, and after...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
With its fine mixture of the tumultuous and the sublime, a single night defined the Giants ' season: ecstatic crowd, big moments in the clutch, priceless Bay Area vistas as dusk turned to evening. History had no bearing in the dugout, only the...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Nobody has a better perspective on the two unsinkable teams that will play for the National League pennant Monday night. Ryan Theriot wore the bird on the bat when the Cardinals roared back from the brink twice to win the 2011 World Series. Now he...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Ryan Vogelsong 's journey has taken him a lot of places over the past 12 years: Pittsburgh, Nashville, Nishinomaya, Japan, Maracaibo, Venezuela...Vogelsong walked off the mound after the top of seventh inning with a 5-1 lead over the Cardinals, and...
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The Mercury News
| 8 months ago
Or a radioactive meteor shower with rabid squirrels attached to each meteor. All of that, collectively, might be enough to send the Giants home for the winter...Louis Cardinals couldn't do it. "I think," said Giants starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong, "...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Story San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval stands at second base celebrating his first inning double against the St...Comedian and actor George Lopez (R) poses for a photo with Detroit Tigers player Miguel Cabrera during the Tigers work out session...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Ryan Vogelsong, San Francisco Giants force Game 7 with 6-1 victory over St...Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum , Madison Bumgarner, Brian Wilson : Great pitching won a championship, duh...A team rescued by a previously expired Barry Zito and a bad-until-age-34...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
On a night when Matt Holliday had to take a seat because of back tightness, the man he pummeled at second base six days ago, Marco Scutaro, was not only still standing but once again standing tall. MVP after a walk and two more hits Sunday night,...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
The Ryan Express showed up for the Giants in Game 6, and bam-bam-bam blew away the St...Yes that was journeyman Ryan Vogelsong taking the ball Sunday and taking it upon himself to make a flame-throwing statement in yet another elimination game. And,...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Pablo Sandoval after his second-inning single gave the Giants a 5-0 lead Sunday night...Galvanized by their home fans, the Giants cruised to a 6-1 victory against the Cardinals in Game 6 of the National League Championship...
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KSBY
| 8 months ago
Marco Scutaro hit a two-run double and Buster Posey drove in his first run of the series with a groundout in the first inning as San Francisco struck early to support Vogelsong. Matt Cain will start for the Giants against Kyle Lohse in Game 7 on...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
San Francisco Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro (R) celebrates defeating the St. The San Francisco Giants fought off elimination from the National League Championship Series yet again on Sunday, beating the visiting St...Giants starter Ryan...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Louis Cardinals over seven splendid innings and Marco Scutaro went 2- for-3 with two RBI as the never-say-die San Francisco Giants forced a deciding Game 7 of the National League Championship Series with a 6-1 decision at AT&T Park. The victory was...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Ryan Vogelsong, who routinely goes into an ornery self-imposed silence the day before he pitches, so that one is left to guess what's behind the stone face, announced his intentions early Sunday afternoon. He came out pumping fastballs, 13 in a row,...
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FanIQ
| 8 months ago
During their 2010 World Series run, the common adage amongst fans was "torture". They split the first two games with the Cardinals in San Francisco, only to lose the next two in St. Louis, falling down 1-3 in the series. They sent Barry Zito to...
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The Hartford Courant
| 8 months ago
This one will be Game 7 of the National League Championship Series...Ryan Vogelsong gave up one run in seven innings and struck out a career-high nine Sunday night as the Giants beat the Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6. The Cardinals mixed sloppy defense...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Ryan Vogelsong gave up just one run in seven innings. Ryan Vogelsong struck out nine in seven innings, and allowed just one run off four hits and a walk to earn the win. The right-hander has been excellent in the postseason, conceding just three...
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The Idaho Statesman
| 8 months ago
Ryan Vogelsong and the San Francisco Giants saved their season once more, pushing St. Louis to a winner-take-all Game 7 in the NL championship series. Turns out the defending champion Cardinals aren't the only team that's tough to put away in October.
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
After dominating in the first two postseason starts of his long career, Ryan Vogelsong said it was too early to say he was a big-game pitcher...Vogelsong was unhittable for much of a 6-1 victory Sunday over the St. Louis Cardinals that sent the...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Louis Cardinals starting pitcher San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval San Francisco Giants' Pablo Sandoval St. AP) Ryan Vogelsong tied a career high with eight strikeouts and the San Francisco Giants took a 5-1 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
The Associated Press Published Sunday, Oct. 21 2012, 7:11 PM EDT Last updated Sunday, Oct. 21 2012, 8:44 PM EDT Left fielder Matt Holliday has been scratched from the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup because of lower back tightness just before Game 6 of...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Louis is still up 3-2 in the series after they were shutout 5-0 in Game 5 by Zito's seven scoreless innings and seven strikeouts. It was the only time during the postseason the defending world champs failed to score any runs. The Giants did most of...
