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GIANTS   106-55                    Just win, baby.

LA             105-56    1 GB       Will there be a 163rd game?

Yesterday

Giants lost to San Diego, 3-2, in ten innings, ending their seven-game winning streak.

LA defeated Milwaukee, 8-3.

Today

Giants face San Diego at Oracle Park, a 12:05 "synchronized start" with all other games. Logan Webb will try to nail down the division title. Righthander Reiss Knehr opposes; it's his fifth major-league start.

LA has Walker Buehler going against Milwaukee at Chavez Ravine; same time.

Yesterday's Game

Kevin Gausman sure did his part. Claiming he'd rediscovered the touch on his splitter during his last start in Colorado, he had it working yesterday over seven six-hit one-run innings. But the Giants mustered only five hits in support and didn't draw a single walk. Most painfully, they managed only one hit after Gausman left the game, and were set down in order in the ninth and in the tenth, stranding their designated runner to end the game.They took the lead in the second on Brandon Crawford's double and Kris Bryant's RBI single, and after the Padres tied it in the top of the sixth (Adam Frazier, naturally, started it off, and Manny Machado got the RBI) the Giants answered back in the grand manner. Austin Slater, pinch-hitting for LaMonte Wade due to a pitching change, belted the first pitch he saw for a home run, the Giants' record 18th pinch-hit homer this year. That gave Gausman the lead back, but in the eighth Zack Littell surrendered the tying run-- single, double, Machado's sacrifice fly. And it was crickets the rest of the way for the San Francisco offense, which made the Padres' run in the tenth as inevitable as it was depressing. The usually-reliable Jarlin Garcia, in the game to get the third out, lost it on Jake Cronenworth's double. 

And so it all comes down to one game. Today's game.  It will take an all-time franchise record 107th win to secure the 2021 National League West division title. And who says the San Francisco Giants can't do it?