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Giants win in 12th inning to keep Wild Card edge
- Updated: September 10, 2016
PHOENIX — Pinch-hitter Kelby Tomlinson’s single broke a 12th-inning tie Friday night and enabled the San Francisco Giants to outlast the Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-6. The outcome kept the Giants a half-game ahead of the Mets for the National League’s first Wild Card spot. St. Louis trails the Giants by a game. San Francisco stands four games behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West.
With the score tied, 6-6, Brandon Belt coaxed a walk from D-backs reliever Dominic Leone to open the 12th. Joe Panik singled Belt to second base. One out later, Tomlinson grounded a Leone pitch up the middle to send home Belt.
Santiago Casilla’s third blown save in his last 10 appearances denied the Giants a victory in 10 innings. The Giants inched ahead in their half of the 10th, 6-5, as D-backs reliever Enrique Burgos flung a bases-loaded wild pitch that scored Hunter Pence with the tiebreaking run. Then pinch-hitter Jake Lamb’s one-out homer off Casilla forged the game’s third tie since the Giants overcame a 4-1 deficit after three …
