Giants vs. Phillies: San Francisco Walks Off With Commanding NLCS Lead

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Giants are one victory from their first World Series since 2002.

The Philadelphia Phillies are still armed with three aces, but their 6-5 defeat in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series left the defending NL champions down three games to one in the best-of-seven series.
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Philadelphia's offense finally busted loose against a Giants pitching staff that was on a historic run dating to last August. With four runs in the fifth inning, the last on a wild pitch by reliever Santiago Casilla, the Phillies claimed a 4-2 lead.

Back came the Giants.

San Francisco pulled it to 4-3 in the fifth and went ahead 5-4 on Pablo Sandoval's double in the sixth.

When the Philllies tied it 5-5 on Jayson Werth's double in the eighth, the Giants had one final reply.

Juan Uribe hit a one-out sacrifice fly in the ninth off Roy Oswalt -- the Game 2 starter and winner -- to score Aubrey Huff. The Giants mobbed Uribe, who, because of a bruised wrist suffered in Game 2, had been questionable to start Game 3 and didn't start in Game 4.

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