Beginning tonight - 4 days Giants playing the Chicago Cubs in San Francisco.
This is the Giants chance to close the four game gap with Colorado for the wild card.
Found this article that explains what is going on. Colorado is playing San Diego tonight, so if Colorado loses tonight and Giants win that
will close the gap even quicker.
Giants bring playoff dreams home
San Francisco (82-70) vs. Chicago (78-73), 7:15 p.m. PT
By Tom Singer / MLB.com
09/24/09 3:15 AM ET
PHOENIX -- Eleven years ago, the Giants' remarkable drive for the postseason ended with the Chicago Cubs. Can an encore now begin with the same Cubs?
The testimony will be presented over the next four days in AT&T Park, where the Giants on Thursday night start a four-game weekend series against those Cubs. It will also lead off the season's final homestand which, interrupted by an off-day Monday, will conclude with a three-game set against the D-backs.
The Giants return home sharing with Atlanta a
four-game deficit to Colorado in the National League Wild Card standings, with 10 games remaining. That's not much rope.
As San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said, "We know the odds against us."
But the Giants are one of two teams (the '07 Rockies being the other) who can say with conviction, "Been there, pulled that off."
In 1998, the Giants made up a five-game Wild Card deficit by going 8-2 over their final 10 games -- only to lose the resulting playoff-berth tiebreaker to the Cubs in Wrigley Field.
Using the Cubs as the catapult to a similar charge would be nice revenge. The Giants realize they need two things to make the dream possible, one of them very much in their control:
Help from the teams (San Diego, Milwaukee and a pair of playoff entries, the Dodgers and Cardinals) left on the Rockies' schedule. And more of the pitching reversal touched off Wednesday by Jonathan Sanchez, of all people.
After Brad Penny, Tim Lincecum, Barry Zito and Matt Cain had been rocked, Sanchez rock-and-rolled.
Now that same aforementioned quartet is lined up for the Cubs.
"I knew I had to go deeper into the game," said Sanchez, after having become the first starter in six games to go longer than 4 1/3 innings, "and now hopefully the others can go even deeper. It won't be easy [to stay in the race], but it'd be great if we could get there."
"We're still breathing," said Bochy. "We're running out of games, we know that. And we need a little help. But
there's still hope.
"We'll be facing a good team and some good pitching, Hopefully our other guys can get back on track, too."
The Giants got back on the winning track Wednesday night in more than one way.
It was their 82nd victory of the season, assuring the team of a winning final record for the first time since 2004.
"That was our goal, to make improvements. But that wasn't our priority," Bochy said. "That was to make the postseason. But we did want to play winning baseball, and now we've done that."
This will be the Cubs' first visit to AT&T Park since last season, when the teams split a four-game series from June 30-July 3.
UPDATE: Thursday night........... Giants lost to Cubs 3 to 2. San Diego won against Colorado 5 to 4 So, Giants are still 4 games away.
Giants were doing well until the top of the 9th when Cubs scored 2 and Giants just couldn't get anything done in the bottom of the 9th to fix that.
I can't recall any bashing going on, I must have missed it. 
