http://0rz.tw/7F20u Giants shave West magic number to four Schierholtz's pinch-hit RBI single delivers victory vs. D-backs By Chris Haft / MLB.com | 09/29/10 1:02 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants continued the giddy activity of counting down the magic number Tuesday, mainly because they found the evening's magic stick. Nate Schierholtz, who has played so sparingly that his bats are in danger of growing moss, delivered a tiebreaking, pinch-hit single in the sixth inning that propelled the Giants to a 4-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks and inched San Francisco closer to the postseason. The first-place Giants trimmed their magic number for clinching the National League West title to four after second-place San Diego lost to the Chicago Cubs, 5-2, to fall two games back. Any combination of Giants victories and Padres defeats totaling four will wrap up the division for San Francisco. The latest round of mathematics was made possible after Pablo Sandoval doubled off the base of the right-field wall with two outs in the sixth inning against Arizona starter Rodrigo Lopez (7-15). With pitcher Jonathan Sanchez due up, manager Bruce Bochy summoned Schierholtz, who has started once in San Francisco's past 60 games and was mired in an 0-for-10 skid. Looking poised instead of rusty, Schierholtz stroked Lopez's 2-1 pitch on a line over shortstop to put the Giants on top. Pat Burrell's two-out RBI single in the seventh inning off reliever Blaine Boyer padded the Giants' lead. Closer Brian Wilson inherited a first-and-third, one-out jam in the eighth inning and, after extinguishing that rally, worked the ninth to record his 46th save. Schierholtz's clutch effort made a winner of Sanchez (12-9), who allowed two runs and three hits in six innings. Sanchez also struck out six, hiking his season total to 200. He became the fourth left-hander in franchise history to reach that level and the first since Ray Sadecki in 1968. Sanchez looked shaky at the outset, walking four batters in the first two innings. One was an intentional pass, which he was forced to issue to Cole Gillespie with one out in the second inning after wild-pitching runners to second and third. That set up Lopez's sacrifice fly and opened the scoring. After Arizona extended its lead to 2-0 on Kelly Johnson's homer with one out in the third inning, the Giants halved the difference in the bottom of the inning as Andres Torres tripled and scored on Mike Fontenot's single. Juan Uribe homered on Lopez's first pitch in the fourth inning to pull San Francisco even. It was Uribe's 150th career homer and 23rd of the season, tying a personal best he reached in 2004 with the Chicago White Sox. Eleven of Uribe's homers this season have either tied the score or put the Giants ahead. Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. --

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