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Lincecum, Giants top Rockies in duel for wild card

Published Aug. 29, 2009 7:12 a.m. ET

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Tim Lincecum had reached 127 pitches through eight innings and would gladly have gone back out for the ninth if only manager Bruce Bochy had let him.

The San Francisco Giants ace still did more than his part in one of the team's biggest games yet of 2009.

Lincecum struck out eight in eight innings to end a four-start winless stretch, Pablo Sandoval homered and the Giants gained ground on the wild-card leading Colorado Rockies with a 2-0 victory Friday night.

"We're coming down the stretch here to the last month," Lincecum said. "These are really big games. We've got to buckle down."

The Giants pulled within two games of the Rockies in the wild card and six of the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost at Cincinnati.

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