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Giants slip n’ slide through extras for another win

The San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies followed their Memorial Day nail biter with another close game Tuesday night, sweating through 11 innings of early summer heat.

Though runners were stranded often by both teams, the Giants continued a worrying trend in recent games of missed opportunities to score early. They stranded 5 runners over the first two innings, at one point having runners at second and third with no outs in the first. They were 0 for 8 with runners on base through the first four innings.

The Phillies scored first in the fourth, scratching a run out of a double-play ground ball that J.