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• Barry Bonds throws ceremonial first pitch before Game 4
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Barry Bonds recently underwent surgery on his left hip, but it didn't stop the Giants legend from throwing out the first pitch before Game 4.
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• Barry Bonds throws ceremonial first pitch before Game 4
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Barry Bonds recently underwent surgery on his left hip, but it didn't stop the Giants legend from throwing out the first pitch before Game 4.
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• Follow live -- NLCS Game 4: Cardinals vs. Giants
  From the Web › USA Today
  The Giants lead the series 2-1.       
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• Packed first 3 innings of NLCS Game 4
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  Steve Kroner reporting: This hasn't been the typically low-scoring postseason game for the Giants. St. Louis leads 4-3 after three innings, and consider these items:...
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• Ace Bumgarner sees more room to improve
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Here's the scary thing about Madison Bumgarner, who at age 25 has already established himself as one of the best postseason starting pitchers in history: He's still...
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• Tale of the tape: Cardinals-Giants, Game 5
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Here's a breakdown of the pitchers for Game 5 of the National League Championship Series: the Cardinals' Adam Wainwright and the Giants' Madison Bumgarner.
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• On crutches, Bonds a surprise guest for Game 4
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Recent hip surgery wasn't going to keep Barry Bonds from coming to AT&T Park on Wednesday, where he threw out the first pitch before Game 4 of the National League...
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• Cardinals have early lead over Giants in NLCS Game 4
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  The Cardinals are trying to get the National League Championship Series back to St. Louis, and they're off to a decent start here in Game 4 at AT&T Park.
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• LIVE: Cardinals vs. Giants -- Game 4
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Ryan Vogelsong is on the hill looking to give the Giants a two-game lead in the NLCS vs. the Cardinals. Follow the action with In-Game Live.
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• Vogelsong's streak ends
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  Ryan Vogelsong had started his postseason career with five starts in which he allowed one run or less. In a little more than one inning tonight, he's allowed two runs in...
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• Fan photos: San Francisco Giants vs. St. Louis Cardinals in NLCS at AT&T Park
  From the Web › The Mercury News
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• Giants fans cheer Barry Bonds before NLCS Game 4
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Bonds threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Wednesday's Game 4 of the National League Championship Series and received a loud standing ovation from a sellout...
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• NLCS Game 4: STL-SF in-game notebook
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Welcome to MLB.com's live game notebook, which will be consistently refreshed with news of the day and key developments from earlier in the game. For real-time updates...
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• Skipper had confidence in letting Perez swing
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Giants manager Bruce Bochy's decision to take off the bunt and let Juan Perez swing in the 10th inning of Tuesday's Game 3 was among the events from San Francisco's 5-4...
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• Bochy sees positives in advancing as Wild Card
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Does participation in the Wild Card Game help or harm a team's momentum? Giants manager Bruce Bochy, as experienced and accomplished as he is, can't quite tell.
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• Giants notes: No more enchiladas for Vogelsong, etc.
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Ryan Vogelsong used to eat chicken enchiladas the night before taking the mound. After experimenting with spaghetti, he's now dead set on...
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• Royals sweep Orioles, punch ticket to World Series
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  The Royals beat the Orioles Wednesday for their eighth straight win this postseason and are back in the World Series for the first time since 1985.
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• Items of interest for Game 4 of NLCS
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  Steve Kroner from China Basin: A few items to keep in mind for Game 4 of the National League Championship Series between St. Louis and the Giants: S.F. starter Ryan...
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• Dodgers move up Series futility list
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  With the Royals having won their first AL pennant since 1985, the Dodgers move up a notch on baseball's October futility list. The Dodgers now own the seventh-longest...
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• Giants vs. Cardinals NLCS Game 4: Social media reaction
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Leading the National League championship best-of-seven series at 2-1, fans around Northern California watched San Francisco host St. Louis at AT&T Park on a cool, cloudy...
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• Cards Wainwright confident he made key adjustments
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Adam Wainwright is determined to forget about his frustrating October outings and get back to the dominant postseason pitcher he used to be.
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• NLCS Game 4: SF-STL in-game notebook
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Welcome to MLB.com's live game notebook, which will be consistently refreshed with news of the day and key developments from earlier in the game. For real-time updates...
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• NLCS notes: Vogelsong switches to burgers, Strickland gets timeout, etc.
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  SAN FRANCISCO – Giants manager Bruce Bochy revealed a bit of Hunter Strickland news, Adam Wainwright praised A.J.
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• Live updates: NLCS Game 4 Giants vs. Cardinals
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  Check here for live updates throughout the SF Giants' Game 4 matchup against the St. Louis Cardinals.
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• Wainwright offers his antidote for whipping winds in SF
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  AT&T Park is a pitcher's ballpark, yes. But the distinctive conditions in San Francisco also can work against a pitcher, as Game 3 illustrated on Tuesday - with...
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• Giants lineup: No changes behind Vogelsong
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  The Giants mustered enough offense to eke out a Game 3 win and take the series lead. Bruce Bochy is going with the same defensive alignment.
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• Toe the Rubber: Shelby Miller vs. Ryan Vogelsong
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Game 4 of the NLCS is set with the Cardinals' Shelby Miller opposing the Giants' Ryan Vogelsong.
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• Familiar lineups for Game 4, plus Strickland goes to work in bullpen
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  We just got done with manager Bruce Bochy's daily pregame news conference, and he had an interest revelation involving a reliever. Bochy said that rookie Hunter...
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• Lineups breakdown: Giants vs. Cardinals, Game 4
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The Giants are looking to take a commanding National League Championship Series lead. The Cardinals are hoping to even the series at two games apiece. The last two NL...
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• NLCS, Game 4: Cardinals vs. Giants lineups
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  Shelby Miller vs. Ryan Vogelsong.
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• Cardinals' pitcher Shelby Miller has a lot on his shoulders in NLCS Game 4
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO — Shelby Miller pitched exactly one inning during the St. Louis Cardinals' 2013 postseason run to the World Series. He was portrayed by snarkier...
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• On the SF Giants' luck, Bochy and the bullpen, and Shelby Miller
  From the Web › San Francisco Chronicle
  A wild-card team needs 12 wins to celebrate a championship these days. The Giants are halfway there. Because they're lucky, right? Half-right. That's quite the...
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• St. Louis Cardinals (4-3) at San Francisco Giants (6-2), 8:07 p.m. (ET)
  From the Web › Sacramento Bee
  Ryan Vogelsong hopes to add to his postseason legacy on Wednesday and pitch the San Francisco Giants to the brink of a National League pennant, as they continue the NLCS...
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• Playoff Reset: League Championship Series Game 4
  From the Web › HardballTalk
  For the Orioles, it'll take a miracle. Meanwhile the Giants seek to take control.
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• Live updates: Giants vs. Cardinals in NLCS Game 4 Wednesday
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Follow the action as the Giants try to take a commanding NLCS lead over St. Louis in Game 4 tonight.
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• San Francisco Giants 2014 Playoff Highlights
  From the Web › NBC
  Photo highlights from the San Francisco Giants 2014 playoffs.Photo Credit: Getty Images
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• Giants' Pablo Sandoval on NLCS: 'Small ball is the key'
  From the Web › USA Today
  The Giants found a new and creative way to pull out a victory.       
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• Nightengale: Giants long ago stopped making sense
  From the Web › USA Today
  Once again, Giants beg, steal and borrow way to victory       
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• Rewind: Another normal October win as Giants take NLCS lead
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  On a strange day in China Basin, the Giants' 5-4 win over the Cardinals in Game 3 fit the script. But that's how they do it in October.
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• Walk-off errors in postseason play rare events
  From the Web › MLB.com
  The Giants' 5-4 victory over the Cardinals in Game 4 of the NLCS on Tuesday marked only the eighth postseason game to end on a walk-off error, meaning the past two...
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• Hudson's up-and-down LCS debut ends in joy
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  Tim Hudson couldn't protect a four-run lead on Tuesday, but at the end of the day, he got to celebrate a Giants' win in his LCS debut.
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• 5 things we learned from the Giants' walk-off win
  From the Web › USA Today
  5 things we learned from the Giants' walk-off win in NLCS Game 3       
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• Throwing error gives Giants walk-off win, 2-1 NLCS lead
  From the Web › USA Today
  Choate's error wins it for the Giants in the 10th inning.       
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• Bochy sticks with Hudson in righty's first LCS start
  From the Web › MLB.com
  In Tuesday's Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, Tim Hudson -- toward the end of his 16th big league season -- started for the first time in an LCS...
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• Three keys for the Giants in Game 4 of the NLCS
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Here are three factors that could help the Giants take a commanding series lead as they take on the Cardinals in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series on...
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• Giants' formidable four help 'pen winning script
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Sergio Romo and playoff newcomers Jean Machi and Hunter Strickland each surrendered home runs in relief on Sunday. On Tuesday, manager Bruce Bochy stuck with Romo, but...
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• Statcast: Sandoval saves a double and Game 3
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Though the Giants ultimately won Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on a defensive miscue in the bottom of the 10th inning, a defensive highlight by third...
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• Choate's error in 10th inning set up as routine play
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Choate's throwing error in the bottom of the 10th on a rather routine bunt play allowed the winning run to score as the Giants captured Game 3 of the National League...
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• Giants keep it close, apply pressure at right time
  From the Web › MLB.com
  That's twice this postseason the Giants have survived thanks to a wild throw from an opposing pitcher. And that's four one-run victories out of the six postseason wins...
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• SF wind gusts thrust outfielders into awkward spots
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Candlestick Point, this is not. But a stiff wind blowing off China Basin made it an adventurous Tuesday afternoon for right fielders in Game 3 of the National League...
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• Rewind: Just another normal October victory as Giants take NLCS lead
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  SAN FRANCISCO – Hunter Pence was discussing meteorology, not baseball."This is not a normal day," he said.
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• Giants beat Cardinals, 5-4, on 10th-inning error
  From the Web › Sacramento Bee
  SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in their last three victories, the San Francisco Giants won a postseason game on a crazy throw by the opposing pitcher.
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• Inside the pivotal at bat that led to the Giants winning Game 3 of NLCS on a walk-off error (Yahoo Sports)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  Juan Perez was sent to the plate in the 10th inning to bunt. He instead delivered the key hit.
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• Wayward throw in 10th leads Giants to walk-off win
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Gregor Blanco's bunt in the 10th inning Tuesday might as well have been a searing hit as St. Louis reliever Randy Choate fielded the ball and flung it past first base...
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• Giants use 'slingshots and rocks' to win Game 3 of NLCS
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  The Giants won Game 3 Tuesday because they are slingshots and rocks french-kissed by God, making others old and stressed as they go.
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• Cardinals' Choate throws away Game 3 in 10th, Giants go up 2-1
  From the Web › Sacramento Bee
  SAN FRANCISCO - Cardinals left-hander Randy Choate faced three hitters in the 10th inning Tuesday. He retired none of them, with his last act a throwing error that...
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• Giants beat Cardinals on error in 10th
  From the Web › Sacramento Bee
  SAN FRANCISCO - There are bundles upon bundles of statistics in the Giants clubhouse, sitting on the manager's desk and in backrooms and on chairs alongside lockers. You...
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• Ishikawa makes Bochy's lineup switch pay off for Giants
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy bumped Travis Ishikawa up to seventh in the batting order in Game 3 against the St. Louis Cardinals, and the left fielder came...
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• Bochy calls on veteran arms for Giants' relief
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  Four San Francisco Giants' relievers -- old hands Affeldt, Casilla, Lopez and winning pitcher Romo -- combine for 3 2/3 innings of shutout ball in Game 3 triumph over...
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• Giants' Tim Hudson gets assist from teammates in first LCS start
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Hudson gives up game-tying homer in seventh inning to St. Louis Cardinals' Randal Grichuk, but says 'the guys really battled and picked...
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• Kawakami: Giants' mix of talent and luck a winning combination
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  The 2014 San Francisco Giants keep defying odds, take NLCS series lead over St. Louis Cardinals after another wacky playoff win
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• Cardinal error gives Giants win, series lead (AFP)
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  San Francisco (AFP) - A throwing error by St. Louis pitcher Randy Choate allowed San Francisco to score the winning run Tuesday in a 5-4 Major League Baseball playoff...
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• Cardinals flip flop, trade a walk-off homer for a walk-off error
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO — Yadier Molina, dressed in his layman's uniform, walked toward the exit of the visitor's clubhouse at AT&T Park. He made eye contact with a couple...
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• Seth Maness' girlfriend takes over his Twitter account, retweets criticism of Mike Matheny
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  The St. Louis Cardinals suffered a painful defeat to the San Francisco Giants in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, losing 5-4 on left-handed reliever...
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• Winning masks Giants' October offensive woes
  From the Web › MLB.com
  After erupting for eight runs in their win over the Pirates in the National League Wild Card Game, the Giants spent their next six playoff games averaging 3.3 runs per...
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• Blanco comes through after Perez's redemption
  From the Web › MLB.com
  When Giants third-base coach Tim Flannery asks his hitters to practice bunting for the umpteenth time on the umpteenth summer day, he tells them to envision close games...
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• Oct. 14 Bruce Bochy postgame interview
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Q.         The winning rallies, walk, failed bunt, single, error on a bunt; just typical for you guys. Do you just assume some of...
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• Oct. 14 Crawford, Ishikawa, Hudson postgame interviews
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Q. Brandon, can you talk about your at‑bat and the particular challenge that Choate faces? BRANDON CRAWFORD:  Randy, he's real tough on lefties, coming from...
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• Cardinals-Giants, Game 3: Did you know?
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Thanks to a walk-off error by Cardinals pitcher Randy Choate, San Francisco beat St. Louis, 5-4, in 10 innings on Tuesday. With the Game 3 win, the Giants took a 2-1...
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• Giants try to grind out Game 4 win vs. slugging Cardinals
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Billed as a clash of mirror images, finesse teams that win with pitching, execution, intelligence and heart, the National League Championship Series quickly turned into...
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• Panda's defensive gem sparks Giants' victory
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Third baseman Pablo Sandoval was able to corral a tough final hop and fire across the infield for the final out in the top of the 10th in Game 3 of the NL Championship...
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• Five things we learned from Game 3 of the NLCS
  From the Web › MLB.com
  Before one errant heave by veteran Cardinals reliever Randy Choate on Gregor Blanco's bunt decided it, presenting the Giants with a 5-4 decision in 10 innings, Game 3 of...
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• Phil Lesh, Bob Weir of Grateful Dead sing anthem
  From the Web › Sacramento Bee
  Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead joined San Francisco Giants third base coach and musician Tim Flannery to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Game 3 of...
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• Choate's error sinks Cards in 5-4 loss to Giants
  From the Web › Sacramento Bee
  The St. Louis Cardinals handled the tough part well, erasing a four-run deficit to force extra innings.San Francisco Giants' Gregor Blanco, left, celebrates after his...
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• Purdy: Does Cardinal error tilt NLCS in Giants' favor?
  From the Web › The Mercury News
  San Francisco Giants may have got the turning point they needed when St. Louis Cardinals reliever Randy Choate threw the game -- and the series? -- away in the 10th...
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• Giants edge Cards in 10th for 2-1 series lead
  From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
  SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Giants beat the visiting St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 on a wild throw in the 10th inning on Tuesday to gain the upper hand with a 2-1 lead...
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• Instant Replay: Giants win Game 3 on walk-off error in 10th
  From the Web › NBCS Bay Area
  The Giants saw a four-run lead evaporate, but walked off with a win in Game 3 thanks to a throwing error in the 10th by Randy Choate.
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• Giants, Cardinals battle to standstill in Game 3
  From the Web › USA Today
  The Cardinals have scored 19 of their 27 postseason runs in the seventh or later.       
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• Recap: San Francisco vs. St. Louis
  From the Web › Sacramento Bee
  Brandon Crawford scored on an error in the 10th inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series...
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• Giants beat Cardinals in 10th on Choate wild throw
  From the Web › Sacramento Bee
  Once the Giants finally got a bunt down, the rest was easy.St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Randy Choate, middle, reacts after giving up a hit to the San Francisco...
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