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Giants’ Samardzija channels Bo Jackson in team’s third straight win

CINCINNATI - Jeff Samardzija knocks in a few runs and all of a sudden he thinks he's a hitter?

He did in the eighth inning Tuesday night, when he swung a slider way off the plate for strike three and was so angry he slammed his bat over his left leg and broke it in two, a la Bo Jackson.

For a split second, Samardzija was not satisfied with pitching his best game as a Giant, or that his teammates had just scored the go-ahead runs in a 3-1 victory, San Francisco’s third in a row

Samardzija three-hit the woebegone Reds for eight innings, one a home run by former Giant Adam Duvall, and won three consecutive starts for the first time in his career.