{"id":9187,"date":"2016-10-05T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/san-francisco-beats-new-york-mets-in-baseballs-national-league-wild-card-game\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:37:00","slug":"san-francisco-beats-new-york-mets-in-baseballs-national-league-wild-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/san-francisco-beats-new-york-mets-in-baseballs-national-league-wild-card-game\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Beats New York Mets In Baseball&#039;s National League Wild-Card Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/10\/05\/496809006\/san-francisco-beats-new-york-mets-in-baseballs-national-league-wild-card-game?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">The Associated Press<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/10\/05\/496809006\/san-francisco-beats-new-york-mets-in-baseballs-national-league-wild-card-game?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/10\/05\/gettyimages-612910862_wide-0d2de36983521a52eb0d7c2b7df50927e6d488d9-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>San Francisco&#8217;s Conor Gillaspie celebrates his three-run home run in the ninth inning, propelling the Giants to a 3-0 win over the New York Mets in the National League wild-card game. <strong>Al Bello\/Getty Images<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span>Al Bello\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Madison Bumgarner pitched a four-hitter in his latest postseason gem, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/543216\/conor-gillaspie\">Conor Gillaspie<\/a> hit a three-run homer off Jeurys Familia in the ninth inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the defending National League champion New York Mets 3-0 Wednesday night in the wild-card game.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to follow their World Series titles in 2010, &#8217;12 and &#8217;14, the Giants open the NL Division Series on Friday at the best-in-the-majors Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/518516\/madison-bumgarner\">Bumgarner<\/a> has pitched 23 consecutive scoreless innings in winner-take-all postseason games \u2014 all on the road \u2014 following a four-hitter at Pittsburgh in the 2014 wild-card game and five innings of relief at Kansas City to save Game 7 of the 2014 World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Mets pitcher <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/592789\/noah-syndergaard\">Noah Syndergaard<\/a> didn&#8217;t allow a hit until two outs in the sixth and gave up two hits in seven innings. Addison Reed escaped bases-loaded trouble in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/543063\/brandon-crawford\">Brandon Crawford<\/a> doubled leading off the ninth against Familia, who walked Joe Panik with one out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/10\/05\/496809006\/san-francisco-beats-new-york-mets-in-baseballs-national-league-wild-card-game?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"San Francisco Beats New York Mets In Baseball&#039;s National League Wild-Card Game\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/10\/05\/496809006\/san-francisco-beats-new-york-mets-in-baseballs-national-league-wild-card-game?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/10\/05\/496809006\/san-francisco-beats-new-york-mets-in-baseballs-national-league-wild-card-game?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/10\/05\/gettyimages-612910862_wide-0d2de36983521a52eb0d7c2b7df50927e6d488d9-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>San Francisco&#8217;s Conor Gillaspie celebrates his three-run home run in the ninth inning, propelling the Giants to a 3-0 win over the New York Mets in the National League wild-card game. <strong>Al Bello\/Getty Images<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span>Al Bello\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Madison Bumgarner pitched a four-hitter in his latest postseason gem, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/543216\/conor-gillaspie\">Conor Gillaspie<\/a> hit a three-run homer off Jeurys Familia in the ninth inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the defending National League champion New York Mets 3-0 Wednesday night in the wild-card game.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to follow their World Series titles in 2010, &#8217;12 and &#8217;14, the Giants open the NL Division Series on Friday at the best-in-the-majors Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/518516\/madison-bumgarner\">Bumgarner<\/a> has pitched 23 consecutive scoreless innings in winner-take-all postseason games \u2014 all on the road \u2014 following a four-hitter at Pittsburgh in the 2014 wild-card game and five innings of relief at Kansas City to save Game 7 of the 2014 World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Mets pitcher <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/592789\/noah-syndergaard\">Noah Syndergaard<\/a> didn&#8217;t allow a hit until two outs in the sixth and gave up two hits in seven innings. Addison Reed escaped bases-loaded trouble in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/player\/543063\/brandon-crawford\">Brandon Crawford<\/a> doubled leading off the ninth against Familia, who walked Joe Panik with one out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}