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ST. LOUIS - Kolten Wong ended Game 2 of the NL Championship Series with a big swing for the St. Louis Cardinals.Now, they can only hope the season isnt over for Yadier Molina.Wong hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth inning and the resilient Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 Sunday night, tying the best-of-seven series at one game apiece with their latest post-season power show.The Cardinals came back after losing Molina to a strained oblique muscle in the sixth. The All-Star catcher was getting further tests and manager Mike Matheny said it didnt look real good.Well wait and see and right now well just go ahead and keep celebrating a very tough, hard-fought win. I am real proud at how these guys kept coming, Matheny said.St. Louis didnt stay down too long, getting a home run each of the final three innings in a back-and-forth game.The series resumes Tuesday night in San Francisco with John Lackey going for St. Louis and Tim Hudson starting for the Giants.It was tough to see our backstop go down like that, Matt Adams said. We just kept grinding it the rest of the game.Rookie pinch-hitter Oscar Taveras connected in the seventh to tie it, and Adams homered in the eighth for a 4-3 lead. San Francisco tied it in the ninth on a wild pitch by closer Trevor Rosenthal.St. Louis, last in the NL with 105 home runs during the regular season, has hit 11 homers in six playoff games — seven in the seventh inning or later. Earlier, Matt Carpenter connected for the fourth time this post-season.It kind of got overshadowed there at the end, but man that was an exciting game, Carpenter said. That was a must-win for us, to do that in that fashion especially after giving up the lead in the ninth.After the Giants tied it, Wong lined a pitch from Sergio Romo for his second big home run this post-season. The rookies seventh-inning drive was the decisive blow in Game 3 of the NL Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.It was a rare post-season failure for the reliable San Francisco bullpen.They are the reason were in this situation, and you give (the Cardinals) credit, manager Bruce Bochy said. They threw out some good at-bats and we made a couple of mistakes and they took advantage of them.The Giants made it 4-all when pinch-runner Matt Duffy dashed home from second base on a two-out wild pitch in the ninth. San Francisco wound up losing for just the second time in its last 14 post-season games.Its not a tough loss at all. I feel it was a great loss, said Gregor Blanco, who had a tiebreaking hit in the seventh. We battled to the last out, so I think it was a great win.Seth Maness retired Pablo Sandoval on a comebacker with the bases loaded to end the top of the ninth, and got the win.Maness came on after Rosenthal couldnt hold a one-run lead. Rosenthals pitch bounced off the glove off backup catcher Tony Cruz and Duffy, running on a full count, never broke stride and slid home with the tying run.Adams, whose three-run shot off Clayton Kershaw put St. Louis in front for good in its clinching playoff win over Dodgers, homered off Hunter Strickland.Blancos fourth post-season hit in 31 at-bats put the Giants up 3-2 in the seventh, but Taveras re-tied it in the bottom half with a homer off Jean Machi just inside the right-field foul pole.Carpenter hit a solo shot off Jake Peavy in the third. Randal Grichuk singled with the bases loaded in the fourth to make it 2-0.Peavy was taken out for a pinch hitter in the fifth and the Giants scored a run off Lance Lynn, then Hunter Pences single tied it in the sixth.UP NEXTGiants: Hudson pitched well vs. Washington in Game 2 of the Division Series, allowing a run in 7 1-3 innings.Cardinals: Lackey has a win in each of his last three post-season series and is the active leader with 111 post-season innings.THE HIT MANMolina became St. Louis career leader in post-season hits with 89, moving past Albert Pujols on a single in the second.NOTABLEJim Edmonds, the star centre fielder on three Cardinals World Series teams, threw out the first pitch. Custom Boston Celtics Jerseys . Louis against the Blues. The Canucks picked up their second straight victory in the swings opener on Tuesday in Calgary before getting routed in Minnesota last night, 5-1. Boston Celtics Store .A. Happ? Happs seven wins are second on the staff to Mark Buehrles 10. 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Pospisil and Sock were playing together for the first time and are the first team since 2000 (Lleyton Hewitt and Max Mirnyi) to win a Grand Slam title in their first tournament together. The Bryan twins were bidding for a 16th Grand Slam doubles title and 99th overall. Pospisil said they had a simple formula for beating the all-time best doubles pair in Grand Slam history. "Close your eyes; hope you play the best tennis of your life," he said, smiling. Sock and Pospisil were playing on Centre Court for the first time. Pospisil, ranked 179th in the speciality, was playing in only his fifth doubles event at a major. "We had a lot of fun, people could see that," Sock said. "Thats part of why we did well. We really enjoyed being out there. As kids we grew up watching this tournament. This is what we kind of dreamed of ddoing.dddddddddddd" The 21-year-old Sock became the third-youngest player to win both a Grand Slam mens doubles title and a Grand Slam mixed doubles championship in the Open era, adding to the mixed title he won with American Melanie Oudin at the U.S. Open in 2011. Todd Woodbridge and John McEnroe, both 20, were the only men to win both titles at a younger age, with McEnroe being the youngest. Pospisils previous best was the round of 16 with Ottawas Jesse Levine at Wimbledon in 2013 and with Torontos Daniel Nestor at the 2013 US Open. The last time there was a Canadian man in the Wimbledon doubles final was in 2009 when Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic won their second All England Club title. Pospisil and Sock saved four match points over two fifth-set games before Scok drilled a winner down the line for the historic victory. Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic of France lost to Mirnyi and Chan Hao-Ching of Taiwan 7-6 (4), 7-5 in the mixed doubles semifinal. Nestor and Mladenovic saved three match points on the Chan serve before Mirnyi poached a winning volley to end the 90-minute match. ' ' '