blackmon at first.back to the screen. 95 miles an hour out in the middle of the plate. 1-1. >> mike: that is a quick bat. one thing we have seen from cron tonight is he has covered a lot of width on the outside corner. you could throw a pitch six inches away and he could get to it. he is in full command of that strike zone. >> jon: strike two! >> mike: 95'd him. with that second strike, everybody is on their feet here at oracle park. >> jon: he has the sign from posey. looks at second. here it comes. he struck him out! he blew it by him at 96 miles an hour! the giants hang on to win it and for zack littell, another save this week. that was pretty impressive because nobody has been doing that to cron for a while. >> mike: he took on the best hitter and he sat him down. what a week zack has had. >> jon: giants win their sixth in a row to maintain their five-game lead over the dodgers. we will be back with more. stay with us.

blackmon got one to shallow center, cut giants' lead to one. he had seen enough.through but wade jr saved the day. oh, a laser from right field to get the man at the plate to preserve the lead. defense opportunistic, that's the giants. i got it, you got it, it fell to the ground. the great ones, they don't do that. scored on the two base error and giants won 5-2. league best 76-42 record now. how about that wade play from right field? >> it was a perfect throw, perfect exchange, biggest moment of the game. no two ways about it. we probably don't win the game or it's going to be much more difficult for us to win the game if he doesn't make the throw. >>> a's body language will tell you, not his day at the rangers. first, rangers felt comfortable at home and it was 1-0 before peters crushed this one 460 feet. 3-0 texas. oakland got one back. chapman, his third home run in the last two games, a three hit day for chappy, got a's on the board. now 5-1, peters again, two run homer. tagged for seven runs in five innings. a's made a move in the eighth. murphy smashed one,

wood into the seventh gives up an rbi single here to charlie blackmon to cut the lead to a run but the giants would answer scoring a pair of runs in the bottom half of the frame and the giants beat the rockies, 5-2, thanks to a sol performance again from alex wood. >> he definitely likes the ball in his hand in a big moment. i think he likes the role of taking care of our team. i think he like the role of taking care of bull pen. it's just kind of cool that is lining up and syncing up with the days after we don't play our baseball he comes back the next day and performs well. >> the as and the lonestar state wrap up their three-game series with the rangers. bottom one d.j. peters tags man ilia for a two-run shot giving the rangers a quick 3-0 lead. matt chapman hit two homers yesterday and today went yard in the top of the second but it wasn't enough. the rangers beat the as 7-4. the as had won seven in a row but cooled down in texas losing 2 of 3 against the rangers. >> they played good. that's all i can say. they swing the bats well, put pressure on us early in the game. get us behin

now it's 54 man on two out charlie blackmon deep and gone into the night but foul.ahead, two run homer. the rockies aren't convinced that was a foul ball. they review it, and then it is officially ruled foul. so that's enough for mcgee after he gives up another hit, and there come zakariyah tell to get the final out. is he k? c j crone seal the deal that was in turn bradl er 54, but the giants get their 75th with six straight victories. and they're still five up on the dodgers. well yesterday, the oakland a's 17 nothing. the winter easy, but back to reality. today they take a plane flight wind up in texas, and it was hot down there about 105 degrees global ict stadium, but it's air conditioned to oakland. a's fans aren't used to that in oakland, sergio romo try to protect a one run lead. his first pitch is the first big league homer for janell pozo, a three run shot. suddenly it's 64 rangers in the sixth and the seventh innings might say the a's come back. their own counterpunch. matal stood with a straight shot. uh right. that believed the yarn about 2.9 seconds. h