Buster Posey doubled in a run and scored another in the sixth as the Giants cooled off the Cubs with a 4-2 win. Kelby Tomlinson doubled home Posey, while Nori Aoki hit a solo homer during a two-run first to help San Francisco stop a three-game skid. Jake Peavy went six-and-a-third innings to improve to 4-and-6. Santiago Casilla nailed down his 31st save. Kris Bryant doubled home a pair in the first for Chicago, which had won six in-a-row and lost for only the fifth time in its last 26 games. Kyle Hendricks allowed all four runs in six frames to fall to 6-and-6.
Final game of the series is this afternoon in San Francisco.