and adrian gonzalez grounds into the 6-3 double-play. cubs get out of the inning unscathed. top of the ninth now. no score. and there's a runner on second. heath bell, facing brad snyder. and snyder getting it done. the cubs win 1-0. the padres trail the giants by three games in the n.l. west. these two teams will play in a pivotal three-game series in san francisco starting today. i'm don bell with your espn news update. now, back to you. >>> coming up next, the stories we'll be following on this busy news day. including a rare court appearance for the american convicted of murder in it flip italy. ♪ turn the tub around ♪ talking about nutrition [ female announcer ] "i can't believe it's not butter" with no trans fat and 70% less saturated fat than butter. butter taste, better health. [ animals calling ]ter. ♪ [ pop ] [ man ] ♪ well, we get along ♪ yeah, we really do - ♪ and there's nothing wrong - [ bird squawks ] ♪ with what i feel for you ♪ i could hang around till the leaves are brown and the summer's gone ♪ [ announcer ] when you're not worried about potential dangers,

adrian gonzalez had a spotty game in the field, but this three-run blast started a matt cain eveningee home runs. the giants, though, come back with aaron rowand bottom 6th left for dead not playing of late, a two-run homer of clayton richard and the momentum is all giants from 6-0 back to 6-3. then four batters later the before mentioned torres hits a little dribbler. not many guys will beat that out of the giants, but torres does. it's 6-4 and the fans really at this juncture you could sense hey, maybe the giants are going to come all the way back, but then in the 9th aubrey huff, a drive to right with freddy sanchez who had walked the board. freddy sanchez just blew it. bad day. he obviously thought it was going to hit the wall. it was caught. he doubled at first and that's your game. the san diego padres 6, the giants 4. if you not to play around with history, the dodgers back in 1996 led the padres going way back here by three games with three to play. padres swept them, won the national league west. so again tomorrow is a key game and they'll go with barry zito. they moved zito

gave up six home runs to this one, adrian gonzalez, it's a homer in the third inning.nts fans still hung tough and continued to rally even though the padres had a 4-0 lead. how about the sixth inning rally, andres torres, mr. mccovey himself, the infield hit and all of a sudden it was 6-4. here comes the big mistake in the bottom of the ninth inning, aubrey huff with the fly ball out. a base-running mistake, he does not tag up. that killed the rally and essentially the game was over. the padres come in and steal game one, 6-4 your final. as expected inside that giants clubhouse, not the best place to be but the show goes on. let's bring in laura bankhe from inside. >> the player his teammates call the workhorse of the sack simply couldn't locate his pitches, according to him. now the giants have just two more opportunities to clinch the division. >> definitely a good bitd of nerves. it was more good nerves, exciting, being in the situation that we're in. but it was still the same routine as always. i just didn't get it done. >> we got down early and we were able to fig