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The San Francisco Giants celebrated their first playoff win in eight years, then paused to honor the man whose career they had just ended.

Rick Ankiel's Giant-beating blast saves the Braves from an 0-2 hole.

The sellout crowd that had been waiting seven years for another playoff game roared when Tim Lincecum jogged back out to the mound to start the ninth inning. The way the Freak dominated in his postseason debut, there was no way manager Bruce Bochy would take the ball away.

Pablo Sandoval hit a splash shot into McCovey Cove, Andres Torres and Buster Posey also homered and the NL West-leading San Francisco Giants beat Arizona 4-1 Thursday, leaving them just one win away from the division title.

Tim Lincecum can finally move forward from a contract situation that was unsettled all winter and focus on baseball again. Same goes for the San Francisco Giants....

As part of their celebration of the 1989 World Series champions, the A's on Monday gave 10,000 fans a Mark McGwire replica jersey. Star-crossed infielder Bobby Crosby, who spent the first six weeks of 2009 working on his swing with McGwire in Southern California, helped give the A's a feel-good victory.

Jose Lopez hit an RBI single off the wall in the 12th inning, long after Randy Johnson was lifted in his bid for win No. 299, and the Seattle Mariners beat the San Francisco Giants 2-1 on Friday night.