PHOENIX -- It was Jake Peavy's choice of music in the clubhouse prior to his start Saturday at Chase Field and he chose vintage Grateful Dead. After recording his first regular-season win since Sept. 16, Peavy said the strands of the one-time Jerry Garcia-led band could become a regular presence.
"We're going to need more Dead," said the 34-year-old Mobile, Ala., native after the Giants clobbered the D-backs, 8-4, to win their fifth in row. "I know a lot of these guys in here hate it. [Brandon] Crawford said, 'This stuff is awful.' Well, they better get used to it.