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MLB: San Francisco 6, San Diego 1

SAN DIEGO, July 16 (UPI) -- Tim Lincecum allowed three hits and struck out seven during seven tedious innings Friday in pushing the San Francisco Giants to a 6-1 victory over San Diego.

The Giants won their fourth straight and the Padres dropped their seventh consecutive game.

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Lincecum (8-7), the defending National League Cy Young Award winner, won his second in a row after grabbing just one victory in his previous eight starts.

Although he gave up only three hits, he also walked three and threw two wild pitches. His pitch count reached 112 before he was replaced in the seventh.

Cody Ross hit a solo shot in the second for the Giants and Andres Torres had two RBI on a fifth-inning single and a seventh-inning double.

Dustin Moseley (2-9) went six innings to take the loss, giving up four runs on seven hits.

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