Rafael Devers played his 163rd game, Willy Adames hit his 30th home run and Logan Webb clinched the NL strikeout crown.

As the Cardinals eliminated the Giants last night, the Giants returned the favor tonight. In reality, the Cardinals were undone by their own bevy of mistakes, more than anything. The Giants take the game 4-3 to avoid a series sweep and send the Cardinals to Chicago to play 3 meaningless games.

An offseason priority for the Giants will be adding proven, veteran starting pitchers to their staff. Sonny Gray fits that bill perfectly.

Sometimes, all it takes is a two-week September hot streak to give a team hope in the postseason race, and no team is hotter than the San Francisco Giants right now. On Wednesday night, the Giants survived a ninth-inning push by the Colorado Rockies in a classic Coors Field chaos game ( SF 10,

With their sixth loss in their last seven games, the Giants’ playoff ambitions have all but evaporated. In short, they are four games back of the New York Mets for the third and final NL wild card spot (essentially five due to the tiebreaker) with eight games remaining.

The Giants made a late lineup switch prior to their regular-season finale against the Rockies, moving Willy Adames into the leadoff spot to maximize his chances of ending the club’s long-lived 30-homer drought.

The Rockies lost 4-0 to the Giants at Oracle Park, a fitting eulogy to the worst season in franchise history and one of the worst seasons in big-league baseball’s modern era.