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- Updated: April 27, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — Denard Span broke an offensive logjam Tuesday night with a fifth-inning RBI double as the San Francisco Giants handed a superb Johnny Cueto his 100th career victory with a 1-0 decision over the San Diego Padres.
Reaching triple digits would have made this a memorable game for Cueto (4-1) under any circumstance. But he put a little something extra in it by striking out 11 in his 13th career complete game and seventh shutout. Cueto yielded seven hits and stranded four runners in scoring position.
But he needed at least one run, and Span provided it by drilling a 3-1 pitch off the right-field wall to score Brandon Crawford from …
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