Win or Go Home: Giants Gearing Up for Wild Card Game

October baseball is here and the chase for a fourth World Series title in eight years begins Wednesday for the San Francisco Giants.After rebounding from a potentially-historic second half collapse to clinch the final National League postseason spot in the season finale Sunday, the Giants will be in the "Big Apple" Wednesday evening to take on the New York Mets in the National League Wild Card Game. Package Thief in SF Pretends to Be Mother with Stroller In this win-or-go-home contest, San Francisco's Madison Bumgarner (15-9) will toe the rubber against New York right-hander Noah Syndergaard (14-9). Both aces, arguably two of the best in the game, rank in the top four among National League pitchers in earned run average, but San Francisco's 6-foot, 5-inch workhorse has the edge in strikeouts and wins above replacement in 43 more innings of work.During seven regular season meetings, the defending National League champion Mets edged the Giants with four wins, including a series victory at Citi Field back in the first half of the season. Bumgarner did out-duel Syndergaard in a 6-1 Giants victory during that series in the only face-to-face meeting between both starters in 2016. Broken...