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It’s just one game.

But for one game, anyway, the San Francisco Giants looked a little bit like the team that won the World Series less than one year ago.

Entering Friday night’s contest against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the second-place Giants trailed the first-place Diamondbacks by six games. Realistically, the Giants need to win at least twice in this three-game series to enter next week with a fighting chance at returning to the postseason.

Well, one down, one (or two) to go.

The Giants, with Matt Cain on the mound, got off to a shaky start. In the top of the first, the D’backs took a 1-0 lead on Miguel Montero‘s run-scoring double, and soon had the bases loaded with two outs. But Cain retired Gerardo Parra on a fly ball, and would never be challenged so seriously again.

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/9/3/2401974/Giants-Diamondbacks-score-Carlos-Beltran