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SAN FRANCISCO -- The last active pitcher to beat the San Francisco Giants in a postseason elimination game will seek to do it a second time Tuesday night when Chicago Cubs right-hander John Lackey takes the ball for Game 4 of the National League Division Series.The Giants staved off elimination with a 6-5, 13-inning victory Monday night, the 10th consecutive time San Francisco recorded a postseason win when a loss would have meant the end of the season.San Francisco won World Series titles in 2010, 12 and 14 but failed to capture the 2002 championship when Lackey, then a rookie, started for the Anaheim Angels on their way to a 4-1 win over the Giants in Game 7.Seems like a long time ago, Lackey said before Mondays game. That has nothing to do with (Tuesday), for sure. Ive had several postseason starts, and one doesnt really affect the next one. Once you get in the game, its another game, another challenge.Lackey, an 11-game winner for the Cubs this season, will be making his 21st career postseason start, the most among active pitchers.He has faced the Giants more often in the playoffs (four times) than the regular season (three), with three of those postseason meetings coming in the 2002 World Series.Lackey is 2-1 with a 3.62 ERA against the Giants in those seven head-to-heads. However, San Francisco roughed him up for four first-inning runs the last time it saw him in the postseason, when he was pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 3 of the 2014 NL Championship Series.The Giants won that game 5-4 in 10 innings en route to a 4-1 series win over the Cardinals that propelled them to their third title in five years.San Francisco will counter Tuesday with left-hander Matt Moore, who had been a candidate to start Game 2 in Chicago. Giants manager Bruce Bochy opted for Jeff Samardzija, pushing Moore back to Game 4.That puts Moore in the same position staff ace Madison Bumgarner faced Monday night -- win or go on vacation.This has got to be the biggest reason why we play the game, why we start training early in November and getting ready for this month, for these series, these moments, Moore said before Mondays game. So for me, Im very excited to watch Bum pitch, and probably a little bit more excited to get going myself.Moore, acquired at the trade deadline from the Tampa Bay Rays, has never faced the Cubs. He does have postseason experience, having gone 1-1 in four games, including two starts, for the Rays.He was one of the Giants best pitchers down the stretch. San Francisco won six of his last eight starts, and Moore held the Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Dodgers to a total of two runs over 15 2/3 innings in the final week of the regular season with the Giants needing every possible win to hold off St. Louis in the wild-card race.Bochy admitted before Mondays game that the plan was to split the first two in Chicago, then have Moore for the clincher at home.Youre hoping to at least get a split there ... and now youre set up pretty good here, he said. It didnt happen, and now we have to find a way to win every game. Swell Water Bottle Sale Australia . - Levi Browns tenure at left tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers is over before it even began. 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Doubling down can be derided for arrogance and a refusal to accept reality; radically changing a previously successful method can suggest impatience and a lack of belief.After failing to notice the warning signs before the 1929 financial crash, John Maynard Keynes reconfigured his approach and ended up as one of the most influential economists in history. After being dropped by England in 2000, when he averaged 25.06 after 27 Tests, Mark Butcher enlisted the help of his father to remodel his technique, and reemerged as a far more successful Test player.Like Butchers first stint in Test cricket, Sam Robsons initial returns for England - 336 runs at 30.54 apiece in the summer of 2014 - were middling, neither disastrous nor good enough to cement his place. His technique was picked apart mercilessly, although the main criticism was that he had a penchant for nicking off outside off stump, something hardly unique among opening batsmen.Just as Gary Ballance has done more recently, Robson vowed that he would resist the calls to reinvent his game. I know what works for me and I have my way. Ive just got to try and stick to that, he said after those seven Tests. Robson has been as good as his words, trusting the strong foundations - above all his meticulous defence - that had earned him Test elevation in the first place.Last season Robson must have been tempted to wonder whether he should more radically change his game. In 2015 he scored a disappointing 891 Championship runs at 30.72 apiece which, even allowing for some spicy wickets, was far short of the weight of runs needed to convince the selectors that he was worth revisiting.A frustrating winter, in which he spent a couple of months injured after damaging his thumb playing grade cricket in Sydney, has been no impediment. In his opening game of the season, against Warwickshire, Robson made 231 and 106, breaking the record for the most runs in a first-class game by a Middlesex batsman. In the process he made such an impression that his skipper Adam Voges backed him to knock the door down and win England selection.It remains unlikely that Robson will win a recall for the first Test of the summer against Sri Lanka, but he cannot be far off after another century, chanceless and still undefeated, lifted his seasons tally at Lords to 451 runs at 225.50 apiece.Perhaps this was the most impressive of his three centuries so far in 2016. Robson had to confront a powerful pace attack including Stuart Broad, the worlds number No. 1 Test bowler; Jake Ball, who showed the muscular action and nagging seam movement that have him on the brink of a call-up of his own; and Harry Gurney, who seemed the quickest of the lot.dddddddddddd There were also cloudy skies and, with Middlesex 49 for 3 in pursuit of Nottinghamshires 354, a perilous position for his side.It was a challenge Robson rose to with skill, composure and assurance. He produced an innings in keeping with those he played for Middlesex all summer long in 2013, when his partnership with Chris Rogers was the best in the country and helped secure Robson an England call-up. After withstanding the first spells from Nottinghamshires attack, Robsons pristine hooking, delicate fine cuts, and dexterous use of his feet to flick consecutive deliveries from Samit Patel to the midwicket boundary gave the impression of an England batsman playing for Middlesex, rather than a Middlesex batsman hoping to be rekindled with England.Theyve obviously got a really good attack so I just tried to get through the new ball and hang in there. I probably didnt always feel quite at my fluent best but were in a good position as a team, Robson said. Ive probably changed a couple of little things over the last six to 12 months but generally Ive stuck to my game and just tried to do the hard work. Thankfully its been a decent start to the year. Robson does not do self-aggrandisement.Nick Compton could only watch jealously on. The delivery from Brett Hutton that accounted for him seemed innocuous enough, a short-of-a-length ball on middle-and-leg of the sort Compton has clipped away thousands of time in his career. This time, though, was different: Compton missed. In the seconds after he was given out, Compton stood motionless, reflecting on how his England dream seems on the verge of dying for a second and, surely, final time. He only has 100 runs, for five times dismissed, this season: surely not enough, barring a magnificent riposte in the second innings here, to retain his cherished position as Englands No. 3.When Dawid Malan followed next ball, strangled down the legside, Nottinghamshire sensed a healthy lead. That was reckoning without John Simpsons crisp counterpunching, which included breaking a pavilion window with a straight six off Patel. Together with Robson, Simpson built a stand worth 154 in 47.3 overs before rain brought a premature end to the day.So, after their earlier batting wobbles, Middlesex ended the day in the same spirit of contentment in which they had begun it when Toby Roland-Jones was polishing Nottinghamshire off. As he finished with 5 for 61, reward for persistence, pace, bounce and swing, it lifted his career record to 259 first-class wickets at 25.01 apiece, and prompted the thought: is there a current county bowler of higher pedigree yet to play an international? ' ' '