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This will sound like a tired cliché, but it's too bad one team had to lose: This was one great frickin' baseball game. Who in their right mind predicted a 9-8 finish with Jon Lester and James Shields pitching?
One team has waited decades to return to the postseason, the other looked World Series-bound before stumbling and barely eking into the playoffs on the final day. Just how long in the making is this rematch? The teams last played in 1981.
Both the Giants and A's will be on the road this week hoping to extend the 2014 postseason beyond a single game, but Las Vegas bookies say the Giants actually have a better shot at advancing than the boys from Oakland.
Sonny Gray threw a 6-hitter to win for the first time in 5 September starts and the A's beat the Rangers 4-0 Sunday to clinch the American League's second wild card.
The A's couldn't take advantage of their first chance to clinch an AL wild-card spot on their own, allowing homers to rookie Jake Smolinski and Robinson Chirinos in a 5-4 win for the Texas Rangers on Saturday night.
San Francisco (87-74) already has clinched a playoff berth and will play at Pittsburgh or St. Louis in the one-game, wild-card playoff on Wednesday.
Josh Reddick drove in 3 runs, Scott Kazmir won for the first time in 7 starts and the Oakland A's moved close to their 3rd consecutive playoff appearance with a 6-2 victory over the Rangers on Friday night.
While fans, non fans, kids and adult everywhere celebrated the legendary Yankees' captain's last hit at Yankee stadium, let's take a look at the best reactions from friends of DJ, fellow athletes and other celebrates who took to Twitter to pay their RE2PECT to Number 2.
The playoff-bound San Francisco Giants blew a six-run lead, and then rallied for a 9-8 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night to stay within one game of Pittsburgh for the top spot in the NL wild-card standings.
The San Francisco Giants have clinched a berth in the Wild Card playoff game as a result of the Milwaukee Brewers loss Thursday against the Cincinnati Reds.
There's a good chance of rain at Yankee Stadium for Derek Jeter's last game at the home park Thursday night.
Baseball players aren't the only ones battling it out on the field.
Clayton Kershaw tied a career high with his 21st victory, Yasiel Puig homered to highlight a four-run sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers won the NL West title with a 9-1 victory over the second-place San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night.
Do the Giants still have a prayer with no Angel in the outfield?
San Francisco Giants outfielder Angel Pagan will have season-ending surgery to repair a bulging disk in his back.
Former University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco Giant baseball player Jeff Kent has made a donation of more than $500,000 to his alma mater for a scholarship for female student-athletes, university officials said.
Pinch-hitter Andrew Susac singled home the go-ahead run in the 13th inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers 5-2 Monday night to climb within 3 1/2 games of the NL West lead.
Jeff Samardzija pitched seven strong innings and received some rare run support to snap a four-start winless stretch, and the Oakland Athletics kept hold of the top AL wild-card spot by beating the AL West champion Los Angeles Angels 8-4 Monday night.
San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer is apparently in favor of breaking the Major League Baseball ban on advertising on uniforms.
Andrew Cashner pitched brilliantly into the 9th inning and the Padres beat San Francisco 3-2 Saturday night to keep the Giants from gaining ground on the NL West-leading Dodgers
The A's missed an opportunity to extend their lead in the AL wild-card race with a 3-0 loss to the Phillies on Saturday.
Tim Hudson allowed four runs in the first inning and the San Francisco Giants were held to three hits in a 5-0 loss to San Diego on Friday night that dropped them 3 1/2 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West race.
Coco Crisp had two hits and drove in a run, supporting another strong outing from Jon Lester, and the Oakland Athletics defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 on Friday night to regain the top spot in the chase for AL wild cards.
Attorneys for both sides were peppered with skeptical questions Thursday from a panel of judges as Barry Bonds seeks to overturn his felony conviction for obstruction of justice.
Sean Doolittle allowed a three-run homer to J.P. Arencibia during a six-run ninth inning, and the Oakland Athletics lost 6-1 to the last-place Texas Rangers on Wednesday night.
