Mon, 07/12/2010 - 09:49 by Pankaj Damin
Washington -- Travis Ishikawa drove in three runs and Madison Bumgarner threw six-plus strong innings Sunday in the San Francisco Giants' 6-2 win over Washington.
Buster Posey chipped in with a two-run triple and Juan Uribe collected an RBI single for the Giants, who took the rubber match of a three-game set and won for the seventh time in nine outings.
San Francisco headed into the All-Star break at 47-41, good for fourth place in the National League West.
Bumgarner (2-2), a 20-year-old rookie, yielded only one run on seven hits, striking out six.
Brian Wilson set down the final four batters to collect his 23rd save.
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Tue, 09/22/2009 - 11:43 by shalini.bahadur
Phoenix, Sept. 22: Travis Ishikawa scored on a bases-loaded fielder's choice in the eighth inning Monday and the San Francisco Giants held on for a 5-4 win over Arizona.
Bengie Molina had an RBI and a run scored, Eugenio Velez and Aaron Rowand each drove in a run, and Fred Lewis drove in the game winner for the Giants -- who won for just the second time in their last five games but pulled to within four games of the Colorado Rockies in the NL wild-card chase.
San Francisco starter Barry Zito went 4 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on six hits with three walks and four strikeouts.
Sergio Romo (5-2) got the win in relief and Brian Wilson earned his 35th save.
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Sat, 09/19/2009 - 12:08 by shalini.bahadur
Los Angeles, Sept. 19: RBI doubles by Fred Lewis and Eugenio Velez put San Francisco in front in the sixth inning Friday, boosting the Giants past the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-4.
San Francisco inched within 2 1/2 games of Colorado for the lead in the National League wild-card race. The Dodgers maintained a five-game cushion over Colorado in the NL West.
The Giants let an early 4-1 lead get away, but moved back in front in the sixth on a series of extra-base hits against reliever Ramon Troncoso (4-4).
Travis Ishikawa produced a one-out double to center and Lewis then came through with a two-out double to left that drove in Ishikawa and made it 5-4. Velez took a strike from Troncoso before hitting a double to left that brought in Lewis.
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Wed, 09/16/2009 - 11:57 by shalini.bahadur
San Francisco, Sept. 16: Barry Zito turned in a solid seven innings while four Giants chipped in two RBI apiece in San Francisco's 10-2 drubbing of Colorado Tuesday.
Zito (10-12) gave up two runs on five hits and struck out nine to pull the Giants to within two games of Colorado in the National League wild-card chase.
Juan Uribe, Travis Ishikawa, Bengie Molina and Aaron Rowand each had two RBI as the Giants outhit the Rockies 10-5.
Ubaldo Jimenez (13-11) took the loss for only the second time in his past dozen starts. He lasted 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven runs -- six earned -- on six hits.
Troy Tulowitzki homered for the Rockies, who have lost four consecutive games.
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Sat, 08/22/2009 - 10:27 by preet_20
Denver, Aug. 22: Aaron Rowand hit a three-run shot Friday, and Jonathan Sanchez fanned eight batters in five innings as San Francisco downed Colorado 6-3.
The Giants moved within a game of the Rockies for the lead in the National League wild-card race. Colorado had a four-game winning streak halted.
San Francisco got to Colorado starter Aaron Cook (10-6) for three runs in the first, two of them on a ground-rule double by Bengie Molina. Travis Ishikawa later drove in Molina with a single.
The Giants had a 3-1 lead in the fourth when Rowand came through with his key blast, his 11th of the season.
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 13:09 by preet_20
San Francisco, Aug. 11: Matt Kemp's fourth-inning three-run double and a strong performance by Hiroki Kuroda helped the Los Angeles Dodgers beat San Francisco 4-2.
Kuroda (5-5) went 6 1/3 innings, giving up one run on six hits with one walk and two strikeouts to get the win.
Mark Loretta had two hits and an RBI for the Dodgers, who won for the first time in four games.
Travis Ishikawa and Bengie Molina accounted for the Giants' scoring with solo home runs.
Jonathan Sanchez (5-10) allowed four runs on five hits with three walks and six strikeouts to take the loss for San Francisco, which has lost two straight and trails LA by 6 1/2 games in the NL West.
Colorado, which beat the Chicago Cubs 11-5 Monday, is in second place, 5 1/2 games out.
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Fri, 07/10/2009 - 12:18 by preet_20
San Francisco, July 10: Bengie Molina staked San Francisco to a quick lead with a two-run homer in the first inning Thursday and the Giants coasted past San Diego 9-3.
The Padres lost their fifth straight.
San Francisco held onto its 2-0 advantage until the sixth, when the Giants blew the game open on solo homers by Travis Ishikawa and Juan Uribe, along with a two-run double by Pablo Sandoval.
Tim Lincecum (10-2) took a shutout into the seventh, but wound up surrendering two runs on three hits in 6 2/3 innings.
The loss went to Josh Geer (1-4), who was touched for six runs on seven hits in 4 2/3.
Lincecum struck out eight to run his National League-leading total to 149. He is in a position to challenge for his second consecutive Cy Young Award.
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Sat, 07/04/2009 - 11:18 by preet_20
San Francisco, July 4: Pablo Sandoval and Travis Ishikawa both had three RBI Friday and the San Francisco Giants produced 15 hits in rolling over Houston 13-0.
Ryan Sadowski (2-0), in only the second game of his major league career, allowed three hits over seven innings. He has thrown 13 innings in his brief stay with the Giants and has yet to give up a run.
Sandoval started the San Francisco attack with a two-run homer in the first inning and added an RBI triple as part of a four-run third. Ishikawa hit a three-run homer during a six-run second.
Felipe Paulino (2-4) was blasted for eight runs on nine hits in just two innings.
His poor outing came one start after he had limited Detroit to a run on three hits in seven frames.
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Tue, 06/23/2009 - 14:30 by preet_20
Oakland, Calif. June 23: Trevor Cahill went seven innings and Bobby Crosby had three RBI Monday in the Oakland Athletics' 5-1 inter-league win over San Francisco.
Cahill (5-5) limited San Francisco to one run on four hits with one run and four strikeouts for his third consecutive victory.
Brad Ziegler struck out four over two innings of no-hit, shutout ball to pick up his sixth save.
Orlando Cabrera had two hits, one RBI and a run scored for the A's, who had lost five straight to the Giants. The victory was Oakland's third in their last four games overall.
Travis Ishikawa accounted for the Giants' scoring with a second-inning solo homer.
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Tue, 05/26/2009 - 10:02 by Salinder Kumar
San Francisco -- Travis Ishikawa was 4-for-4 with a three-run homer and three runs scored Monday to carry the San Francisco Giants to an 8-2 win over Atlanta.
Edgar Renteria added two RBI and Fred Lewis scored twice for the Giants.
Winning pitcher Jonathan Sanchez (2-4) gave up two runs on four hits and three walks with six strikeouts in five-plus innings.
Brian McCann was 3-for-3 with an RBI and Casey Kotchman drove in a run for the Braves.
Loser Javier Vazquez (4-4) gave up five runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.
The game was scoreless until the fifth inning when the Giants took a 3-0 lead.
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