CHICAGO -- Madison Bumgarner facing Jake Arrieta had an October feel to it, and
the San Francisco Giants performed like they belong in the postseason.
Jack Butland Jersey .Bumgarner outpitched
Arrieta with 10 strikeouts over six innings, and San Francisco pounced on rare
miscues by the Chicago Cubs in a 3-2 victory on Saturday.Bumgarner (14-8)
allowed two runs and five hits in his fourth victory in his last five starts.
San Francisco, trying to catch Los Angeles in the NL West, rebounded from a pair
of one-run losses in the first two games of the four-game set against the major
league leaders.Were going up against a team that, I dont think theyve clinched
yet, but theyre going to be there, Bumgarner said. And were planning on being
there. So its a playoff-type of matchup.The Giants had a major league-best 57-33
record at the All-Star break. But they are just 16-29 since that point, leaving
them looking up at the Dodgers and clinging to the top spot in the wild-card
race.It was one we definitely wanted and needed, catcher Buster Posey said. It
was good to score some runs off Arrieta and then for our bullpen to hold the
lead.Arrieta (16-6) was charged with three runs -- two earned -- and four hits
in six innings in his first loss since July 30. Chicago had won five in a row
overall.A little bad luck, a little missed execution, Arrieta said.The Cubs had
one last chance when pinch hitter Anthony Rizzo led off the ninth with a walk
against Will Smith. Rizzo advanced on a sacrifice by Dexter Fowler, but the big
first baseman was caught off second on the play.Thats huge, Giants manager Bruce
Bochy said. Heart of the order up, man on second, its a different game.Kris
Bryant then hit a soft lineout to shortstop Brandon Crawford, handing Santiago
Casilla his 30th save.Chicago also had an opportunity in the sixth, but
Bumgarner struck out Matt Szczur for the third time with two on. Hunter
Strickland got Addison Russell to line to right with the bases loaded in the
seventh.The sputtering Giants had dropped three of four and eight of 12
overall.Right now as bad as it seems, were still in a better spot than we were
in 2014, Bumgarner said of their last World Series title season. Weve still got
the division in our sights for sure.The Cubs entered with a 16 1/2-game lead in
the NL Central thanks to a number of tremendous defensive plays in the past
week. But they were sloppy on a cloudless day with the wind blowing in as two of
the games top pitchers squared off.Third baseman Tommy La Stellas two-out
throwing error in the first made it 1-0. The Giants scored in the fourth with
the help of a passed ball and added a run in the sixth on Arrietas second wild
pitch.The Cubs got within 2-1 in the fifth thanks to Javier Baezs hustle. He led
off with a single, stole second and scored from there when third baseman Eduardo
Nunez was unable to barehand Arrietas slow roller.Angel Pagan doubled and scored
on the error by La Stella, who was a late addition after Jorge Soler was
scratched with an ingrown toenail. Soler hit for La Stella in the fifth and
struck out with one on.The Giants took a 2-0 lead on Nunezs RBI single in a
fourth that included a walk and wild pitch by Arrieta and Willson Contreras
passed ball.Its not very common with our group of guys, Arrieta said of the
mistakes. You dont expect to see those things often. We had opportunities
regardless.TRAINERS ROOMGiants: Reliever Derek Law (elbow) hasnt begun throwing
yet, but Bochy said they expect him to be at full strength when hes eligible to
come off the disabled list Sept. 12.Cubs: Setup man Hector Rondon (triceps)
threw a 22-pitch simulated game and felt good enough that his rehab stint at
Triple-A Iowa was scrapped. Rondon could be activated Monday. Im back to normal,
he said.STREAK OVERGiants 1B Brandon Belt dropped Ben Zobrists two-out popup in
the first to stop the longest errorless streak in franchise history at 17
games.UP NEXTRHP Johnny Cueto (14-5, 2.98 ERA) looks to rebound from his
shortest stint with the Giants when he faces Cubs RHP John Lackey (9-7, 3.41
ERA) on Sunday.
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. Any real chance at payback wont come until the playoff. Still, Pittsburgh
knows its taut 3-2 win over the Bruins on Wednesday night is a pretty good place
to start laying the groundwork. "They are a very good defensive team," Penguins
forward Brandon Sutter said. Sri Lanka 537 (Kusal Perera 110, Tharanga 110,
Cremer 4-142) and 247 for 6 dec. (Karunaratne 110, de Silva 64, Mumba 4-50) beat
Zimbabwe 373 (Cremer 102, Moor 79, Lakmal 3-69, Herath 3-97) and 186 (Cremer 43,
Dilruwan 3-34, Herath 3-38) by 225 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsGraeme
Cremer soaked up 175 balls and 121 dots to lead another lower-order rally and
raise Zimbabwes hopes of saving their 100th Test, but Sri Lanka dug deep into
their reserves to secure a hard-earned victory with 45 balls to spare.When the
last hour began, Zimbabwe needed to bat out 15 overs with Cremer on 41 and No.
10 Carl Mumba on 3. Both batsmen played close to their bodies with a straight
bat, blocking single-mindedly, and leaving Sri Lanka on the tenterhooks. They
negotiated four more overs before Cremer jumped out of the crease and attempted
an injudicious flick against the turn, off Rangana Herath, and was stumped for
43. He had faced 351 balls across both innings, the second-most by a No. 8 in a
Test behind Wasim Akrams 363, which incidentally came against Zimbabwe in
1996.Nineteen balls after the key wicket of Cremer, Dilruwan Perera knocked out
Chris Mpofus off stump to wrap up Sri Lankas 225-run victory.Cremer entered the
fray at 100 for 6, seven overs after lunch, after Zimbabwe had lost their last
five wickets for 32 runs. He first added 39 for the seventh wicket with Sean
Williams in 19.4 overs before marshalling Mumba in a 38-run ninth-wicket stand
that lasted 19.1 overs.Cremer endured a nervy moment when he padded up to a
straight delivery from Herath, but umpire Ian Gould turned down the bowlers
appeal, with ball-tracking backing up his decision, indicating the ball would
have missed off stump. Cremer shook that off and soldiered on. His first
boundary came off his 53rd ball when he drove a Suranga Lakmal half-volley
through extra cover.It was Williams who laid the groundwork for Zimbabwes
fightback. He showed restraint, taking 21 balls to get off the mark, before
unfurling his range with paddle-sweeps and even reverse-sweeps against the
spinners.Williams went onto make 40 off 92 balls, before Herath struck with the
fourth ball after tea, getting him to nick to slip. Herath sensed an opening and
broke through six overs later when he had Donald Tiripano lbw for a 21-ball
duck. It was a dubious decision ffrom Gould, though, with replays detecting an
inside edge onto the pad.
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off the previous ball he faced - a Herath arm ball struck his front pad in front
of middle and leg - but Gould did not budge. The cloud cover that had built up
during tea moved off and Sri Lanka then strained every sinew. Herath brought out
the carrom ball from wide of the crease, and even tried to shake things up with
part-time legspinner Kusal Mendis. The second new ball ultimately snuffled out
Zimbabwes dogged resistance.In the morning Lakmal swung the first new ball and
teased Zimbabwes openers in the channel outside off after Sri Lanka had declared
overnight, keeping in view the rain threat and setting Zimbabwe a target of 412
in 98 overs. Brian Chari struggled to even put bat on ball in the early
exchanges, failing to get fully forward or go fully back against Lakmals
awayswingers and Heraths arm balls. To compound his woes, Chari attempted to
sweep Herath against the turn, but the top edge did not carry to fine leg or
deep square leg.It was the extra pace of teenage debutant Lahiru Kumara that
ended the tentative 31-run opening partnership. In his first over, an inducker
at 141kph burst through Charis defences and sent the off stump cartwheeling.Once
the swing faded, Lakmal briefly peppered the batsmen with short balls from
around the wicket with a leg slip, forward short leg, and square leg placed
halfway to the boundary, but it was reverse-swing with the old ball that
provided him the breakthroughs. In the space of three balls, he coaxed a couple
to veer back into Hamilton Masakadza and Malcolm Waller to trap both lbw.It came
after Dilruwan had struck twice in nine balls to remove Tino Mawoyo for 37 and
Sean Ervine for an eight-ball duck. Mawoyo was adjudged lbw by Simon Fry, though
the slider from Dilruwan was comfortably missing leg stump with the angle from
over the wicket. Ervine, though, was pinned plumb in front by a full delivery
that drifted in and then turned away.Zimbabwe lost four wickets for only six
runs and later Herath worked his way past Cremer and the tail to give Sri Lanka
their first away Test win after seven matches, on captaincy debut.
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