SAN DIEGO -- Coming off a deflating loss to the NL West-leading Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy wanted to see signs that the defending World Series champions hadnt packed it in. cheap jerseys from china . They havent. Pablo Sandoval homered twice, lefty Madison Bumgarner struck out a career-high 13 in 8 1-3 innings and the Giants beat the last-place San Diego Padres 7-2 on Monday to remain seven games behind the Diamondbacks with 21 to play. The Giants came into this three-game series with their biggest deficit of the season after losing two of three to the Diamondbacks in a weekend series, including a 4-1 loss on Sunday. "Im proud of how the guys bounced back," Bochy said. "They played so well today. I mean, thats as tough a loss as weve had all year. We played one of our better games. We did a great job of putting that game behind us." The Diamondbacks won 10-7 at Colorado on Monday. Bumgarner (10-12) came within two outs of his first career complete game. He was pulled after Nick Hundley hit a solo homer with one out in the ninth, his sixth. Bumgarner held San Diego to two runs and seven hits, and walked one. It was the fourth time he struck out 10 or more, all coming this season. "What a job he did," Bochy said. "I said, Im going to let him start the ninth, give him a chance, get a shot at it. He had a couple deep counts and the home run. I wasnt going to let him work that hard to get the complete game." Bumgarner allowed a run in the first inning but then dominated the Padres after that. "They hit some good pitches and got a run in, then I shut them down," Bumgarner said. "Our defence made a lot of great plays." Sandovals 17th and 18th homers, both off Tim Stauffer (8-12), were enough to carry the Giants to just their third win in eight games. With two outs in the first, he homered into the sand play area beyond the fence in right-centre on a 2-0 pitch. He led off the fourth with a shot into the right field seats on a 2-1 pitch. "Those balls were well-hit," Bochy said. "Hes strong. It doesnt matter what park hes in, he hits them well. He gave us what we needed. He got us on the board there early. Good day for him." The Giants have hit seven homers in their last five games after going homerless in their previous six. Sandovals first homer, to one of the deepest parts of spacious Petco Park, was estimated at 436 feet. "Its not that easy, especially in this park," Sandoval said. "Its tough to hit home runs so I dont try to hit home runs." It was the third time Sandoval has had two homers in a game. The first two were in 2009. "The pitches today were pitches that were middle of the plate and missed locations," Stauffer said. Sandoval flied out to left in his third at-bat. In his fourth at-bat, with runners on first and third, first base opened on a wild pitch by Jeff Fulchino while Sandoval was batting, and he was intentionally walked. After a forceout at home, Cody Ross hit a two-run double. Brad Brach, the third Padres reliever that inning, walked pinch-hitter Mark DeRosa with the bases loaded to run San Franciscos lead to 7-1. The Padres walked four that inning. Sandoval struck out in the ninth inning. Stauffer lost his third straight start. allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings, struck out one and walked one. In his previous start, Stauffer lasted only 1 2-3 innings and had a career-high seven walks in an 8-5 loss at Dodger Stadium. Six of them were in the second inning alone, three with the bases loaded. "Hes not working himself out of jams," San Diego manager Bud Black said. "A little bit of the long ball has gotten to him. Hes not stringing good pitches together." San Diegos Jesus Guzman hit an RBI single in the first. NOTES: Giants RF Carlos Beltran was scratched from the lineup. Manager Bruce Bochy said he had either serious food poisoning or the flu and was sick all night. ... The Padres reinstated OF Chris Denorfia from the 15-day DL before the game. Denorfia had two doubles. ... Giants LHP Eric Surkamp (0-0, 1.50 earned-run average) will make his second career start on Tuesday night. The Padres will counter with LHP Wade LeBlanc (2-4, 5.14). wholesale nfl jerseys . The four-time major winner, who withdrew from last weeks Texas Open after pulling a muscle in his right side, waited as long as possible to end the guessing about whether he would play this week ahead of the Masters. cheap nfl jerseys . Cleveland signed Bengals slot receiver Andrew Hawkins to a contract offer sheet on Thursday, a Browns spokesman said. http://www.worldcupjerseys.us.com/ .Y. - Urijah Faber walked out on a Madison Square Garden stage in a Wes Welker jersey, the UFCs fun nod to that other "super" show this weekend.WINNIPEG - Ricky Ray was looking at the big picture after his Toronto Argonauts barely hung on for a 26-20 win over the Blue Bombers on Saturday. The narrow victory secured a home playoff date for the Argos (10-6) and stretched their lead atop the East Division to four points over the surging Hamilton Tiger-Cats (8-7), who travel to Montreal for a game on Sunday. "Just getting the win coming off of two losses, just keeping our lead in the East, thats what we want to do, is keep that separation (from Hamilton) and have that chance for first place," Ray said. Winnipeg fell to 3-13 and were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs in front of 28,869 fans at Investors Group Field. The Argos got touchdown catches from Andre Durie and Dontrelle Inman and Swayze Waters booted four field goals from 37, 23, 37 and 33 yards. The Boatmen had a 23-3 lead at halftime before the offence sputtered. Ray didnt put up his usual 300-plus yard game, completing 21-of-35 pass attempts for 246 yards and his second interception of the season. "I thought (Ray) played pretty good in the first half, kind of like our offence," Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich said. "We just werent able to get any sort of rhythm in the second half. Its on the unit, its not just on Ricky." But even though it wasnt a masterpiece, the coach will take the win, which is the teams impressive seventh road victory (7-2) this season. "It was ugly, but sometimes all it takes is one win to get you kind of rolling in the right direction," said Milanovich, whose team hosts the Bombers on Thursday. "We need to get better next week, but well take it every time." Will Ford and Rory Kohlert scored TDs for Winnipeg and Sandro DeAngelis connected on a pair of field goals from 13 and 20 yards. Bombers quarterback Max Hall had a career-best outing in his fifth straight and seventh overall start. He was 30-of-50 for 385 yards with one TD and one pick. He led his teammates in a valiant effort at the end. Winnipeg kept Toronto scoreless in the third quarter and upped their own points to 23-10 with Fords one-yard TD run at 5:36 of the third. Hall then put up a nine-play, 94-yard scoring drive that ended with Kohlerts 27-yard TD reception to cut Torontos lead to 23-17 at 5:02 of the fourth quarter. DeAngelis surprised the crowd by completing a successful onside kicck and recovered the ball himself at Winnipegs 50-yard line, but the Bombers ended up being forced to punt. wholesale jerseys. . Mike Renaud booted a 40-yarder that Chad Owens took, but could only return to Torontos 14-yard line. Toronto punted and Winnipeg tried another comeback from mid-field. Receiver Mike Sims-Walker, a former NFLer with Jacksonville and St. Louis, grabbed a pair of 13-yard passes in his impressive CFL debut and got the Bombers down to Torontos 13-yard line. But on second down with two yards to go, the Bombers committed a huge error as Hall got called for a time-count violation and Winnipeg lost a down. DeAngelis made the 20-yard field goal and closed the gap to 23-20 with 2:05 left in the game. Bombers head coach Tim Burke said the time-count violation had to do with Ford not hearing his blocking assignment and Hall not being comfortable with having the play go ahead. Hall was shaken up by a heavy hit and wasnt available to the media after the game. Following DeAngelis field goal, Ray responded with a 31-yard pass to Jason Barnes and Bombers defensive lineman Greg Peach was flagged for roughing the passer. Waters finished the drive with his 33-yarder with 1:06 remaining. Hall got the Bombers down to Torontos 49-yard line, but a knocked-down pass intended for Cory Watson ended the effort and playoff hopes. Burke pointed to "weird stuff," mistakes and "stupid penalties" as some of the reasons for the loss. An example of an error and oddity occurred late in the second quarter when Watson had what seemed to be a sure TD pass go right through his hands in the end zone. Halls next pass to a wide-open Clarence Denmark in the back of the end zone hit the goal post. The following 26-yard field-goal attempt by DeAngelis was botched when the ball was placed on the tee and fell off, causing holder Renaud to try a pass that went incomplete and turned into a turnover. The gaffes drew boos from the fans. But Burke predicted his players wont downshift gears now that the team is officially out of the playoffs. "Theyll still play hard and theyll still play to win," Burke said. "Weve got guys who are tough guys, that are mentally tough, and theyre going to keep going." Sims-Walker led all receivers with eight receptions for 137 yards. Owens topped Toronto receivers with eight catches for 71 yards. cheap jerseys ' ' '
