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		Posey and Sandoval bust-out in Giants win By Greg Lee July 17, 2010
	New York Mets catcher Rod Barajas, right, tags out San Francisco Giants' Juan Uribe during the seventh inning of a baseball game Saturday, July 17, 2010, in San Francisco. Uribe was attempting to score on a sacrifice fly hit by Travis Ishikawa. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
	The Mets’ Ike Davis cracked the Giants 24-inning scoreless streak with his first of two home runs in a futile cause. San Francisco’s Matt Cain delivered scoreless frames into the seventh before Davis’ home run put the Mets on the board, but by then it was already too late. The Giants, firing on all cylinders these last few days had already staked Cain to a 4 run lead on the strengths of homers from Andres Torres (8) and Buster Posey (8). With the Giants already leading 2-0, Torres drove in Juan Uribe and Pablo Sandoval, rounding out a five-run explosion at the feet of Mets’ starter Hisanori Takahashi (7-3, 4.15). Posey, who most Giants fans are already reserving a space in Cooperstown next to soon-to-be enshrined radio voice, John Miller, hit his eighth homerun an inning later, on a no-question line-drive into the fans in right field. Posey notched his 11th consecutive game with a hit, already 20% of Joltin’ Joe’s record. Cain delivered the Giants’ third straight pitching gem, delivering a two-run, seven inning outing. Cain’s effort follows Zito and Lincecum, and helped to pull San Francisco into a second place tie with Colorado, bouncing them a half-a-game over the spiraling Dodgers. The Mets scored two in the seventh, on Davis’ home run and added two more runs in the eighth and ninth. Sandoval drove in two of his three RBIs in the with a double to Center in the seventh. Probably the most impressive and important number for Giants fans were Sandoval’s three RBIs, a hopeful sign that their media-frenzied Panda might be finding his stroke late in the season. Don’t throw those Panda-hats out yet! The Giants’ man-handling of the Mets these last three days (the last two innings not withstanding), puts San Francisco square in the hunt for the West and with the recent power surge from Posey and RBI binge from Sandoval, it looks like there may be more life in the Giants’ questionable offense than many have suspected all season. The Giants new offensive juggernaut will have their work cut out for them on Sunday when they back Jonathan Sanchez (7-6, 3.47) against the Mets’ ace Johann Santana (7-5, 2.98) before taking on the hated Dodgers in Los Angeles on Monday.