Juan Uribe keeps coming up with some of the biggest hits for the San Francisco Giants.

Darren Ford arrived from Double-A in the second inning following a delayed flight and missed connection. Then, he got thrown right into a tie game and a pennant race in his major league debut.

Tim Lincecum's downward spiral is taking San Francisco's playoff hopes along for the ride.

Charlie Manuel scoffed at the notion of second place. So did Phillies stars Jimmy Rollins and Roy Oswalt.

The San Francisco Giants have had so much trouble beating the San Diego Padres that it took a heady play and a fortunate bounce to pull out an extra-inning win.

All Pat Burrell wanted to do was get the ball in the air. He succeeded.

Ubaldo Jimenez won his major league-leading 17th game, Carlos Gonzalez homered twice and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1 on Wednesday.

Chad Billingsley tossed a five-hitter for his first complete game of the season, Casey Blake homered in the second inning and drove in another run in the eighth, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-0 on Wednesday night to snap a season-worst six-game skid.

Mets outfielder Jason Bay had put his head down and took a few steps in thinking the game was over. It wasn't, and he took advantage of the extra chance.