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Giants clinch second wild card, complete sweep of Dodgers

Scully revealed some inside baseball to the audience, revealing that Dodger outfielder Yasiel Puig has gotten under the skin of Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner. They will square off with the Mets in NY on Wednesday, October 5.

Sunday, however, Scully was attired in a dark blue suit, light blue shirt and blue striped tie as he took the air at noon, with his trademark "it's time for Dodgers baseball" welcome. But they did Sunday. Not just because the Giants avoided the cataclysmic meltdown, but because they did so by regaining the mojo of the team that dominated the league in the season's first half. Posey drove in another run on a line drive in the second to cap a three-run frame, making it 5-0. That will be exactly 80 years to the minute from when I first fell in love with the game, " said Scully, still at the top of his game after all these decades. For a possible long trip, pretty much the message to everybody. "You could tell, they did not want to fly to St. Louis tonight".

Kershaw is already set to pitch the opener in the best-of-five Division Series against Washington.

But first, it'll be Thor vs. Bumgarner. "The sun has broken through the clouds and it is shining on the Giants for the moment".

They ended the regular season with an 87-75 record by rattling off four consecutive victories - something they hadn't done since July 6-10, when they entered the break with a major league-best 57-33. The San Francisco Giants honored legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully with a plaque in the press box at AT&T; Park.

The Giants gave him no shortage of action to describe.

And it wasn't enough to get past the Giants for the second NL card. Scully noted later in the broadcast Pence is one of his favorite players because "he tries so hard", but noted the right fielder is trying too hard right now.

Span coasted into third base and nearly paid for it, as Yasiel Puig delivered a throw so far on a line that it came with a beverage service.

Justin Turner: Broke up no-hitter, run scored.

Span hit the first of four singles as the Giants added a pair of runs in the seventh.

Sergio Romo pitched a hitless ninth for his fourth save. Angel Pagan also had three hits.

San Francisco has won 16 of its last 20 home meetings against the Dodgers. Let Scully's words explain: "I can root for them now when they go to NY to play the Mets!"

"This is what makes this as special as what's happened in the past, " manager Bruce Bochy said.

Giants: Moore (12-12) faces the Dodgers after matching his career-high of 11 strikeouts against Colorado in his previous start.

Last night during NBC's Sunday Night Football game, veteran sportscaster Al Michaels marveled, "Has anyone ever dominated their field for that long - in anything?"

The rookie right-hander allowed five runs on nine hits with two walks and three strikeouts as he was unable to get out of the third inning.

Scully told his story once more of going to games at the old Polo Grounds, the tale of the "little red-headed kid walking by a Chinese laundry, 8 3/4 leaving grammar school on his way home". He pursued and caught a foul pop in the third inning, diving into the photographer's well and riding a camera like a mechanical bull before toppling over and landing on his back.

And with that, a day's work, a season's work and a lifetime's worth of work had come to an end.

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Giants clinch second wild card, complete sweep of Dodgers