Giants win to force deciding 7th game
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October 23, 2012, Tuesday
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RYAN Vogelsong struck out a career-best nine batters in another strong postseason performance as the San Francisco Giants forced a decisive Game 7 in the National League championship series with a 6-1 victory over the St Louis Cardinals on Sunday in San Francisco.
Marco Scutaro hit a two-run double and Buster Posey drove in his first run of the game with a groundout in the first inning as San Francisco struck early to support Vogelsong.
San Francisco's Matt Cain and St Louis' Kyle Lohse are set to pitch in Game 7. It's a rematch of Game 3, won by the Cardinals. There's a forecast of rain in the Bay Area during the day.
"This place is going to be loud, I can tell you that," Vogelsong said.
These wild-card Cardinals sure seem to like the all-or-nothing route while San Francisco thrives playing from behind.
In five games with their year on the line, these gutsy Giants have won all five this postseason. Now, it comes down to one game for the past two World Series champions to get back, with the Detroit Tigers waiting.
Pitching to chants of "Vogey! Vogey!" from the sellout crowd of 43,070 at AT&T Park, the right-hander didn't allow a hit until Daniel Descalso's broken-bat single to center with two outs in the fifth. Vogelsong struck out the side in the first and had already fanned five through two innings.
Scutaro had no chance for a collision with Matt Holliday this time. In their first game back at AT&T Park since Holliday took out the second baseman with a hard slide in Game 2, Holliday was scratched about an hour before first pitch because of tightness in his lower back, and Allen Craig replaced him in left field.
It hardly mattered the way Vogelsong pitched.
The Cardinals managed their only run on Craig's two-out single in the sixth. St Louis had gone 15 innings without scoring after left-hander Barry Zito won 5-0 on Friday in Game 5.
"I just tried to do really the same thing he did, come out and set the tone early for us," Vogelsong said.
Marco Scutaro hit a two-run double and Buster Posey drove in his first run of the game with a groundout in the first inning as San Francisco struck early to support Vogelsong.
San Francisco's Matt Cain and St Louis' Kyle Lohse are set to pitch in Game 7. It's a rematch of Game 3, won by the Cardinals. There's a forecast of rain in the Bay Area during the day.
"This place is going to be loud, I can tell you that," Vogelsong said.
These wild-card Cardinals sure seem to like the all-or-nothing route while San Francisco thrives playing from behind.
In five games with their year on the line, these gutsy Giants have won all five this postseason. Now, it comes down to one game for the past two World Series champions to get back, with the Detroit Tigers waiting.
Pitching to chants of "Vogey! Vogey!" from the sellout crowd of 43,070 at AT&T Park, the right-hander didn't allow a hit until Daniel Descalso's broken-bat single to center with two outs in the fifth. Vogelsong struck out the side in the first and had already fanned five through two innings.
Scutaro had no chance for a collision with Matt Holliday this time. In their first game back at AT&T Park since Holliday took out the second baseman with a hard slide in Game 2, Holliday was scratched about an hour before first pitch because of tightness in his lower back, and Allen Craig replaced him in left field.
It hardly mattered the way Vogelsong pitched.
The Cardinals managed their only run on Craig's two-out single in the sixth. St Louis had gone 15 innings without scoring after left-hander Barry Zito won 5-0 on Friday in Game 5.
"I just tried to do really the same thing he did, come out and set the tone early for us," Vogelsong said.
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