Purdy: Giants undone by one swing (and one swing that might not have been a swing)

Edit The Mercury News 08 Oct 2016
In this case, the road to ruin was a home run by Chicago Cubs batter Javier Baez off Giants’ starting pitcher Cueto, who had shut out the Cubs for more than seven innings and seemed headed toward the ninth inning before Baez’s bat got in the way ... Three feet shorter and the ball would have landed in the glove of Giants’ leftfielder Angel Pagan for an out ... Too bad for the Giants that he didn’t....

Giants pick former Cub Samardzija over Moore to pitch Game 2

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 08 Oct 2016
Giants pick former Cub Samardzija over Moore to pitch Game 2 CHICAGO - Jeff Samardzija's three-run, 47-pitch first inning at Wrigley Field on Sept. 1 did not dissuade the Giants from giving ......

Lester, Baez help Cubs blank Giants 1-0 in NLDS opener

Edit Austin American Statesman 08 Oct 2016
Jon Lester outpitched Johnny Cueto with eight sparkling innings, Javier Baez homered in the eighth and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 1-0 in a tense Game 1 of their NL Division Series on Friday night ... Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross throws out San Francisco Giants' Johnny Cueto off a bunt in the third inning of Game 1 of baseball's National League Division Series, Friday, Oct....

Giants provide game-plan hint for containing Aaron Rodgers

Edit New York Post 08 Oct 2016
drama this week is that ending a two-game skid will require the Giants to vanquish some guy named Aaron Rodgers on Sunday ... The Giants said they have been able to block out the media frenzy surrounding their petulant star receiver because nothing focuses a team better than facing one of the best quarterbacks ever to don an NFL uniform on his own turf....

MLB playoffs: San Francisco Giants vs. Chicago Cubs: LIVE score updates and stats (10/7/16); NLDS ...

Edit NJ dot com 08 Oct 2016
The San Francisco Giants face the Chicago Cubs in Game 1 of a best-of-five National League Divisional Series on Friday, Oct ... Johnny Cueto starts for the Giants against Jon Lester of the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. The San Francisco Giants face the Chicago Cubs in Game 1 of a best-of-five National League Divisional Series on Friday, Oct ... Who. San Francisco Giants (87-75) at Chicago Cubs (103-58)....

Hernandez, Tomlinson in Giants’ lineup for Game 1 against Cubs’ Lester

Edit Sacramento Bee 08 Oct 2016
Friday evening, he will lead off for the Giants in Game 1 of the N.L ... The Giants are playing platoon matchups in their opener against the Cubs and left-hander Jon Lester ... That leaves the Giants with three left-handed bats in the lineup against Lester ... Here’s the full Giants lineup for Game 1. ... * If you missed it earlier, the Giants finalized their ......

Grocery cart mishap lands woman $1.2 million

Edit The Miami Herald 08 Oct 2016
Cleveland.com reports Barbara Rieger was struck in 2012 by a customer who lost control of a motorized cart at a Giant Eagle store in Brook Park ... Giant Eagle ......

Woman struck by electric grocery cart awarded $1.2 million

Edit The Miami Herald 08 Oct 2016
Cleveland.com (http.//bit.ly/2dz5Jhc ) reports Barbara Rieger was struck in 2012 by a customer who lost control of a motorized cart at a Giant Eagle store in Brook Park....

MLB playoffs: San Francisco Giants vs. Chicago Cubs: LIVE score updates and stats (10/7/16); NLDS Game 1

Edit Lehigh Valley 08 Oct 2016
The San Francisco Giants face the Chicago Cubs in Game 1 of a best-of-five National League Divisional Series on Friday, Oct ... Johnny Cueto starts for the Giants against Jon Lester of the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Il ... Who. San Francisco Giants (87-75) at Chicago Cubs (103-58) ... It's October in an even-numbered year, and the San Francisco Giants appear to be following their usual routine....

Giants drop NLDS opener as Cueto outdueled

Edit MLB 08 Oct 2016
Baez launched a full-count fastball from Johnny Cueto into the left-field bleachers in the eighth inning to lead the Cubs to a 1-0 victory over the Giants in Game 1 of the National League Division Series at Wrigley Field ... On Wednesday, Bumgarner shut down the Mets in the NL Wild Card Game, and the Giants arrived riding momentum from that win ... Giants ... When the Cubs and Giants last met in September, all four games were decided by one run....

Giants drop NLDS opener as Cueto outdueled (San Francisco Giants)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Oct 2016
San Francisco Giants) ... The lefty, making his fourth straight trip to the playoffs, served up a leadoff single in the first three innings but kept the Giants at bay ... When the Cubs and Giants last met in September, all four games were decided by one run ... The Giants' leadoff batter reached in each of the first three innings via a hit, but catcher David Ross took care of two....

Baez ends scoreless duel to lift Cubs in G1

Edit MLB 08 Oct 2016
Baez launched a full-count fastball from Johnny Cueto into the left-field bleachers in the eighth inning to lead the Cubs to a 1-0 victory over the Giants in Game 1 of the National League Division Series at Wrigley Field ... On Wednesday, Bumgarner shut down the Mets in the NL Wild Card Game, and the Giants arrived riding momentum from that win ... Giants ... When the Cubs and Giants last met in September, all four games were decided by one run....

Cubs, Baez interrupt Cueto's dominance to capture 1-0 victory over Giants

Edit The Miami Herald 08 Oct 2016
It delivered the Chicago Cubs a 1-0 victory over the Giants in Game 1 of this NL Division Series Friday night ... The home run left the Giants with the most tenuous scrap of life ... The Giants came up short in the ninth but the breakthrough needed to come earlier against Jon Lester ... The Cubs left-hander needed just 86 pitches to hold the Giants scoreless in eight innings....
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