Panik punctuates rally vs. Rays in SF's 7th straight

Joe Panik comes through in the clutch, mashing a 9th-inning three-run homer to right, giving the Giants a 6-3 leadST. PETERSBURG -- Jaff Decker backed up to the right-field wall like he had a chance to catch the ball that was crushed off Joe Panik's bat. San Francisco had struggled to find a big hit most of the day. But after tying it in the eighth, the Giants won their seventh straight game on Panik's three-run homer in the ninth in a 6-4 win over the Rays.

The Rays hardly put the Giants on their toes with baserunners, doing their damage with four solo homers. San Francisco finally got the hit it needed in the top of the eighth when Brandon Crawford split the right-center gap to bring in…