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GIANTS       92-50                       5-0 road trip so far. 

LA                 90-53     2.5   GB    Buehler wins 14th. 

San Diego    74-67    17.5  GB     You gonna play ball, or you gonna... ?

Yesterday

Giants routed Chicago, 15-4, their sixth straight win.

LA defeated San Diego again, 5-4.

Today

Giants finish up with Chicago, another daytime start. 1:20 at Wrigley, 2:20 here. Logan Webb against lefthander Justin Steele.

LA tries to sweep San Diego at home. Blake Snell goes for the Padres. He's good. Max Scherzer starts for the Dodgers. He's, uh, really good.

Yesterday's Game

"Get a good pitch to hit." Ted Williams' sage advice works really, really well when it's done right, and the Giants have a lot of guys who follow it. Tommy LaStella and Brandon Belt are two such disciples. They batted 1-2 in the lineup yesterday and were a combined 5-for-10 with five runs scored, eight RBI, and a three-run homer apiece. Belt continued his tear with a second-inning blast, his 23rd, and LaStella, who'd singled in two runs ahead of him, launched a cannon shot off the Wrigley Field scoreboard in the fifth that officially put the game into rout status. Evan Longoria added three RBI and Mike Yastrzemski two. As further testament to the wait-it-out, foul-it-off school of hitting, the team drew 11 walks to go with 12 hits and managed to strand eight while scoring 15. Kevin Gausman was beneficiary of all this largesse as he won his 14th with a middlin' effort. He located well and kept the pitch count modest, but the Cubs tagged him for eight hits and three runs over six. Well, it is Wrigley Field. At the Friendly Confines and at Coors Field before that, the Giants have scored a total of 50 runs in these five road games.