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SAN FRANCISCO - At the end of a long and sporadic regular season for the San Francisco Giants, Hunter Pence held the microphone to his mouth and gave fans at AT&T Park a pep talk.The right fielder, whose profanity-filled speech in a celebratory clubhouse a few days earlier made national headlines, kept his words clean this time as teammates and coaches surrounded him in the infield. He led the crowd in a chant and asked, Do you guys want to see another game here at home?Yes! Yes! Yes! fans responded.Whether there will be is up to the Giants now.The Giants geared up for the NL wild-card game by beating the San Diego Padres 9-3 in the regular-season finale Sunday behind home runs from Buster Posey and Adam Duvall.San Francisco will play at Pittsburgh on Wednesday night. The winner will face the NL East champion Washington Nationals in the best-of-five division series.I expect to see a great ballgame and well do all we can to get back here, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.Bochy got just about everything he wanted out of the 162nd game: the regulars tuned up, the bullpen pitched stress-free innings and nobody got injured. Even starter-turned-reliever Tim Lincecum (12-9) tossed two scoreless innings for the win.The Giants (88-74) enter the playoffs on a three-game winning streak. But perhaps the most encouraging sign for San Francisco was Posey starting behind the plate a€” and showing some pop with the bat a€” after dealing with a nagging back over the last few weeks.The 2012 NL MVP hit a tying, two-run shot in the first inning for his 22nd homer this season. He said he felt fine and is ready to go for the post-season.Posey, Pence and Pablo Sandoval all started after getting a day off Saturday to rest. They were replaced in the middle innings along with most of the other starters, including first baseman Brandon Belt, who left with a tight groin that Bochy called a minor injury.Giants rookie Chris Heston tossed four innings in his first major league start. He allowed three runs and six hits.Padres starter Robbie Erlin (4-5) allowed four hits and four runs in 1 2-3 innings. The Padres (77-85) lost their final three games and finished third in the NL West.But everything Sunday was secondary. The only result that really matters is the next one for San Francisco.The Giants won the World Series in each of their last two post-season trips a€” in 2010 and 2012 a€” and many of the teams current players have experience in the kind of pressure-packed game ahead. They won six elimination games before sweeping Detroit for their last title, and theyll need a similar effort to put Pittsburgh away.The guys who have been through it know thats its going to come down to pitching well and playing good defence, Posey said. And I think we have the offence that can get hot and sustain that hotness for a few weeks.UP NEXTGiants: Bochy announced the worst-kept secret in San Franciscos clubhouse: LHP Madison Bumgarner (18-10, 2.98 ERA) will start Wednesday at Pittsburgh. Bochy said he felt comfortable with Bumgarner or Jake Peavy on the mound, but Bums our guy. The last few years, the job hes doing, I dont think there was any question who you pitch that game. If the Giants beat Pittsburgh, Peavy would pitch Game 1 against Washington.Padres: Manager Bud Black said he plans to meet with new general manager A.J. Preller in San Diego and is looking forward to being part of the clubs rebuilding process this off-season.TRAINERS ROOMGiants: OF Michael Morse (strained left side) said hes feeling better but remains doubtful to be activated for the wild-card game.Padres: Black said nobody on his team is expected to have any off-season procedures. Medically, were all doing fine, he said.TRICKY TRAVELThe Giants finally got some clarity on their travel schedule after the Pirates lost 4-1 to Cincinnati, ensuring the NL wild-card game would be in Pittsburgh. The Giants will to travel to Pittsburgh on Monday.BOCHYS BOYBrett Bochy, the son of the Giants manager, pitched a perfect ninth to close out the regular season. Father and son both called the moment special, and the manager said he would keep the lineup card as a souvenir. Air Max 270 Prezzo Basso . 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"We made a lot of big moves early last off-season. It wasnt by design, it just worked out that way," Anthopoulos said Friday. "Weve had a lot of dialogue. Theres still a lot of players out there, just havent been able to line up with respect to a price, whether its trade or free-agent cost. "We do have the ability on some trade fronts to just say Yes. We know what the asking prices are -- just not willing to pay that price. From a free-agent standpoint ... we have been given a price and we just dont necessarily see the value right now." The starting rotation continues to be a point of emphasis after a miserable 2013 that saw Toronto finish last in the American League East after starting the season as World Series favourites. Free agent starters Ervin Santana or Ubaldo Jimenez are still on the open market, but Anthopoulos said theres a chance that the rotation could be filled out from within. "We have a lot of candidates and a lot of options. Someone like Brandon Morrow coming back (from injury) is a huge boost for us, some of our young kids that are coming back are certainly going help," he said. "We still have dialogue and try to upgrade but we do have some upside to some of the guys that are coming back." Anthopoulos, who was in town for a luncheon with the single-A Vancouver Canadians, also touched on the New York Yankees signing of Japanese starter Masahiro Tanaka earlier this week. The 25-year-old right-hander inked a seven-year deal worth $155 million dollars with Torontos AL East rivals that also includes a $20-millionn dollar payment to his club team.dddddddddddd The Blue Jays, who have an internal policy of not signing player contracts longer than five years, were rumoured to be in the running for Tanakas services early on in the process. "Obviously hes a great starter and there was a lot speculation on where the dollars would go just based on the previous two Japanese starters (Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yu Darvish)," said Anthopoulos. "I think it was expected that he would go north of (their price tags) -- $175 million, I dont know if anybody predicted that. "Hes very talented and the Yankees certainly got better." Anthopoulos said the Blue Jays use the five-year limit on contracts as "a guideline" but tend to shy away from longer-term deals because they offer clubs very little wiggle room. "Weve held firm on our five-year policy in terms of contracts. When free agents are signing for seven, eight years, then normally thats where we tap out," he said. "We definitely have the resources financially in terms of annual value and salaries and things like that. I think weve proven that with some of the players we have acquired. But just the length of term -- very rarely do those seven-, eight-year deals work out." Anthopoulos and manager John Gibbons will be feeling the heat if the Blue Jays stumble out of the gate as the they did in 2013. Fans flocked to Rogers Centre with dreams of a return to the teams glory years of the early 1990s that included two World Series titles, but were instead bitterly disappointed with the product on the field. With pitchers and catchers set to report for spring training on Feb. 17, a repeat in 2014 surely wont fly. "Youre always anxious to try to improve the club and to add to it, but you dont necessarily have to guard against it when you know theres a deal that just doesnt make any sense," said Anthopoulos. "We just dont want to force a deal and do it for the sake of doing it. "We want to make moves that we think are going to help the club. If we have to go more years and dollars than we believe in, people might get excited now but a few months into it we may be regretting that deal and be hamstrung with a contract that we dont want." ' ' '