CHICAGO (AP) " Best in the major leagues during the regular season, the Chicago Cubs are one win from reaching the National League Championship Series for the second straight year after beating the San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Saturday. Cubs manager Joe Maddon remains wary of the Giants, World Series champions in 2010, '12 and '14. Chicago led the big leagues with 103 wins during the regular season and is hoping for its first World Series title since 1908. Ben Zobrist hit a run-scoring single off former Cubs and now Giants pitcher Jeff Samardzija in the first inning, and Hendricks added a two-run single in a three-run second. The only other reliever to homer in the postseason was the New York Giants' Rosy Ryan in Game 3 of the 1924 World Series.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 09, 2016 03:45 UTC