San Francisco Giants: 10-Game Road Trip Defines Season

By some miraculous series of events, the San Francisco Giants find themselves only three games back of the NL West lead.

They have begun to capitalize on the Padres' recent slump and have inched closer and closer as the Giants near a four-game set with San Diego.

Tim Lincecum had his first great outing since July 15.

The Giants took a series from Colorado and, if not for a broken bat triple, may have swept the Rockies.

These next 10 games will show everyone if the Giants are worthy of a playoff spot. But a lot of things have to go right for this to happen.

Three in Los Angeles, three in Arizona and four at San Diego.

We'll take it series by series and see what has to happen.

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