Giants, Tigers advance, Orioles stay on course
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October 13, 2012, Saturday
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THE San Francisco Giants and Detroit Tigers booked their places in the final four of the Major League Baseball playoffs with victories on Thursday, while the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals stayed alive with nail-biting wins.
The Giants secured a place in the National League Championship Series with a 6-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds, completing three straight road wins to overturn a 2-0 series deficit.
The identity of their opponents remains unknown, as the Nationals edged the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 to square their series at 2-2. Jason Werth hit the walk-off homer leading off the ninth.
Baltimore squeezed past the New York Yankees 2-1 in 13 innings to put its division series square at 2-2, and extending the tight season-long battle between the two teams.
J.J. Hardy hit an RBI double in the 13th inning as the Orioles bounced back from a demoralizing extra-inning loss of their own the previous day.
After splitting 22 games this year, it all comes down to a winner-takes-all game at Yankee Stadium for a spot in the American League Championship Series against Detroit.
The Tigers booked their spot as Justin Verlander pitched a shutout in a 6-0 win over the Oakland Athletics, taking the series 3-2 and finally seeing off the never-say-die A's.
It was the first time in 17 years that all four division series had gone the full five games.
In Cincinnati, Buster Posey hit the third grand slam in Giants' playoff history to give the visitors a 6-0 lead in the fifth inning. The Reds rallied throughout the late innings and threatened in the ninth by scoring once and getting two runners on base before Sergio Romo struck out Scott Rolen to end it.
"Being down 2-0 and coming back and winning three at their place, it's an unbelievable feeling," Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford said.
In Cincinnati, the home-field meltdown had a sickeningly familiar feeling. The Reds haven't won a home playoff game in 17 years. After taking the first two on the West Coast, all they needed was one more at home, where they hadn't dropped three straight all season.
In Washington, Werth led off the bottom of the ninth inning and worked Lance Lynn for a 13-pitch at-bat that ended when he drove a ball into the left-field stands to give the Nationals victory over the Cardinals.
"That's the way that game should have ended: Jayson Werth hitting a home run," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. "He has not hit that many this year. ... Unbelievable. Great effort on his part."
The Giants secured a place in the National League Championship Series with a 6-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds, completing three straight road wins to overturn a 2-0 series deficit.
The identity of their opponents remains unknown, as the Nationals edged the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 to square their series at 2-2. Jason Werth hit the walk-off homer leading off the ninth.
Baltimore squeezed past the New York Yankees 2-1 in 13 innings to put its division series square at 2-2, and extending the tight season-long battle between the two teams.
J.J. Hardy hit an RBI double in the 13th inning as the Orioles bounced back from a demoralizing extra-inning loss of their own the previous day.
After splitting 22 games this year, it all comes down to a winner-takes-all game at Yankee Stadium for a spot in the American League Championship Series against Detroit.
The Tigers booked their spot as Justin Verlander pitched a shutout in a 6-0 win over the Oakland Athletics, taking the series 3-2 and finally seeing off the never-say-die A's.
It was the first time in 17 years that all four division series had gone the full five games.
In Cincinnati, Buster Posey hit the third grand slam in Giants' playoff history to give the visitors a 6-0 lead in the fifth inning. The Reds rallied throughout the late innings and threatened in the ninth by scoring once and getting two runners on base before Sergio Romo struck out Scott Rolen to end it.
"Being down 2-0 and coming back and winning three at their place, it's an unbelievable feeling," Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford said.
In Cincinnati, the home-field meltdown had a sickeningly familiar feeling. The Reds haven't won a home playoff game in 17 years. After taking the first two on the West Coast, all they needed was one more at home, where they hadn't dropped three straight all season.
In Washington, Werth led off the bottom of the ninth inning and worked Lance Lynn for a 13-pitch at-bat that ended when he drove a ball into the left-field stands to give the Nationals victory over the Cardinals.
"That's the way that game should have ended: Jayson Werth hitting a home run," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. "He has not hit that many this year. ... Unbelievable. Great effort on his part."
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