Cain, Nunez Fuel Giants Win Over Nationals

Of all the second half games the Giants have played, Saturday's might have been the one in which you least expected a victory. Matt Cain entered with a 5.53 ERA and just one recent start he could feel good about. Stephen Strasburg came in with a 15-1 record.But there was Cain, taking a shutout into the sixth and holding every inch of a big lead the Giants built off Strasburg. The longest-tenured Giant earned his second "W" over the Nationals in a week in a 7-1 victory that was as clean a game as the Giants have played since the All-Star break. Paramedic Jailed For Detonating Homemade Bomb in SF Planter Eduardo Nuñez took care of most of the offense with two triples, a double, a single and three runs, and Brandon Belt added a homer and two doubles. It was never particularly easy for Cain, but when he had to, he made big pitches with two on and two down in the second, Cain got Ben Revere to ground out softly to third. With a runner on third the next inning, he threw Bryce Harper a series of 92 mph fastballs and then finished him off with a wicked slider. Cain loaded the bases in the fourth, but Revere hit a one-out roller to first and Belt alertly threw home for the force. A...