Bochy started to come out to talk to Bumgarner, but the left-hander waved his manager off. Given a two-run cushion, Bumgarner cruised into the seventh, when he put two runners in scoring position ahead of hard-swinging rookie Javier Baez. “I get (trainer Dave Groeschner) working on me for a solid 24 hours and get some medication, and it usually responds pretty well,” he said. Posey got Wednesday off to receive treatment for hip tightness that he said has bothered him off and on for years. The Giants fell behind 3-1 on two Cubs homers in the first, but Buster Posey took over from there, reaching base five times and hitting a go-ahead homer and two doubles.

He scored three batters later on one of Pablo Sandoval’s three hits. The teams returned to the field 46 minutes later, and Pagan kicked things off by getting the exact result he had just missed at the end of the first game: A lined single up the middle. It’s a hard-hit ball, and the pitcher did a great job of stopping it.” He knocked it down and threw to first to end a game that went in the books as two hours, 50 minutes, but took 48 hours to complete. Panik and Brandon Crawford singled with one out in the ninth, but after Gregor Blanco struck out looking, Angel Pagan lined a shot right at closer Hector Rondon. Travis Ishikawa had a leadoff single in the seventh that didn’t lead to any damage. It did, but the Giants couldn’t get home. You would like to think that would get us going.” “He was really locked in and hitting his spots. “Geez, it’s hard to throw the ball better than he did,” Bochy said. He struck out two more in a perfect sixth. Yusmeiro Petit replaced Ryan Vogelsong and struck out the side in the long-awaited bottom of the fifth. In the meantime, the bullpen was cruising. Adam Duvall doubled with two outs in the sixth and scored on a single by pinch-hitter Joe Panik. The two weather delays officially lasted six hours, 31 minutes, and the Giants wasted little time cutting into the deficit. After waiting two more hours, the Giants and Cubs took the field to continue playing a game they had started two days earlier and continued only because the Giants became the first team in 28 years to win a protest. But another round of showers brought the controversial blue tarp back out.

(CDT) with the teams picking up where they left off Tuesday night. Thursday’s action was supposed to start at 4:05 p.m. It was a tough series, really, with all the delays. “It would have been nice to come back (in the first game), but we tried and came up short.

“You’ll take it,” manager Bruce Bochy said.

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