Wednesday, March 7, 2012

NL Capsules

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tim Lincecum won his third straight start following a career-high, five-game losing streak and had a two-run single as the San Francisco Giants roughed up San Diego ace Mat Latos to win 6-1 Sunday and cut the struggling Padres' lead to less than one percentage point atop the NL West.

The Giants won three of four games after having lost nine of their first 11 against the Padres this year. The teams will meet in a season-ending series at San Francisco Oct. 1-3.

San Diego (80-62) leads San Francisco (81-63) by .5634 to .5625. Colorado is just 1½ games back.

Rookie Buster Posey hit a two-run homer off Latos (14-6), who allowed five runs and seven hits in …

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