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CHICAGO -- Jeff Samardzija finally got to make a playoff start at Wrigley Field, and it worked out really well for his former team.Samardzija lasted just two innings in the shortest start of his career and San Francisco was shut down by Chicagos bullpen in a 5-2 loss to the Cubs on Saturday night, putting the Giants on the brink of elimination two games into their best-of-five NL Division Series.Gregor Blanco hit an RBI double and Brandon Belt added a sacrifice fly in San Franciscos two-run third, but that was it for the Giants in another sluggish performance at the plate. They have scored in just two of their 27 innings in this years postseason, winning 3-0 on Conor Gillaspies ninth-inning homer in the wild-card game against the Mets and losing 1-0 in the NLDS opener Friday night.San Francisco won the World Series in 2010, `12 and `14, and its playoff win against the Mets on Wednesday was reminiscent of its even-year magic during those title runs. But the Giants lackluster stay in Chicago put them in a big hole against the loaded Cubs, who led the majors with 103 wins this year.The biggest positive for the Giants: Madison Bumgarner is lined up for Game 3 on Monday night in San Francisco. The big left-hander tossed a four-hitter in the wild-card win and is 6-1 with a microscopic 0.79 ERA in his last nine playoff appearances.San Francisco also can draw from its 2012 title run, when it dropped the first two games of the division series against Cincinnati and won three in a row to advance. The Giants then fell behind 3-1 in the NLCS against St. Louis and stayed alive again.Manager Bruce Bochys club was looking to rebound in Game 2 against the Cubs after it managed just six hits against Jon Lester and Aroldis Chapman in the series opener. But the Giants trailed from the very beginning in Samardzijas second career start at Wrigley as a visitor.Samardzija was drafted by the Cubs in 2006 and spent his first 6 1/2 seasons with the team before he was traded to Oakland in the 2014 deal that brought shortstop Addison Russell to the Cubs. His only previous playoff appearance was a relief outing for Chicago against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2008 Division Series.The right-hander, a native of nearby Merrillville, Indiana, who played baseball and football at Notre Dame, fell behind in the first when Dexter Fowler hit a leadoff double and scored on Ben Zobrists two-out RBI single.The Cubs added three more in the second. The big blow was pitcher Kyle Hendricks two-run single on a flare to center.Bochy then hit for Samardzija in the third. The righty allowed six hits and walked one, throwing 33 of his 47 pitches for strikes.Hendricks departed in the fourth with a bruised right forearm after he was struck by Angel Pagans line drive with two out. But the Giants managed just two hits against five Cubs relievers.Travis Wood, who replaced Hendricks, got four outs and homered against George Kontos in the fourth. Chapman pitched a perfect ninth for his second save of the series.The Giants totaled six hits against six pitchers. Bochy even asked Bumgarner to spark San Franciscos sluggish offense as a pinch-hitter in the fifth -- third baseman Kris Bryant bobbled Bumgarners grounder for an error, then threw the ball away to let Bumgarner reach second base with one out. Bumgarner was stranded.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap Wholesale Air Max . Louis Blues absence from top spot in the TSN. Cheap Authentic Air Max . 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Every day Im flooded with messages from Indians all over the world telling me they are supporting me. GENEVA -- The goal of helping referees with video review to make decisions at the 2018 World Cup has been facing key tests at FIFA headquarters.Two systems among the 11 in talks to win the World Cup contract were undergoing trials this week during training sessions with Europes candidates to referee in Russia.An idea met with a skeptical response when then-FIFA President Sepp Blatter presented it in 2014 has support from his successor, Gianni Infantino -- even if Blatters idea of NFL-style challenges by coaches looks unlikely to survive.It is not certain that video assistance referees, or VARs, will be approved in time for the World Cup.Still, history was made on Wednesday with a first significant intervention by video review at a Dutch Cup match. Willem II player Anouar Kali was sent off for fouling an Ajax opponent one minute after the referee initially showed a yellow card.Here is how FIFA is moving to give top-level referees the kind of help that is standard in American sports leagues:---THE REQUIREMENTSFIFA wants video review only for potential clear errors in four situations: goals being scored, penalties being awarded, players being sent off and cases of mistaken identity.It needs a technology system to help VARs and the referee communicate quickly without spoiling the games flow.Massimo Busacca, FIFAs director of refereeing, believes it should take not take more than five, six seconds to review an incident.If we need one (camera) angle more, of course it can take two seconds more, Busacca told The Associated Press.In most situations, play has naturally stopped and review time will not disrupt the flow.All involved agree that calling back play to impose a decision not initially taken is the biggest challenge for FIFA and its rule-making panel, known as IFAB, which must give final approval.---THE TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMThe DreamCatcher system developed by Evertz Microsystems of Burlington, Ontario is among FIFAs options. It has already been proven in NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL games.This week at FIFA, two DreamCatcher operators worked in a windowless portable cabin next to the hedges lining the soccer bodys compound.Two banks of screens -- each to be monitored by one of two VARs, helped by a technician -- take feeds from cameras around the artificial turf pitch that flanks FIFAs offices.The largest wide-screen TV above the desk shows a live game feed. Two smaller screens at desk level show several angles of the action at a slight delay, allowing the VARs to take a quick glance at an incident. The VAR can ask to zoom in anywhere on the split-screen images. Each World Cup match has at least 30 cameras, but too many angles can slow a decision.Though the NBA and MLB centralize review operations in one location, FIFA would likely want each VAR team in a truck or booth at each of the 12 stadiums in Russia.FIFA had sset a two-year timetable and wants a decision by IFAB by March 2018.ddddddddddddThis has been the most thorough review of the leagues we have worked with, DreamCatcher project manager Nima Malekmanesh said.---THE REFEREES BOSSSix seconds. In that time, Busacca wants his officials to know if they must change a clear mistake.That will require expert analysis and communication skills from the VAR, who Busacca believes should also be a FIFA-list official.Absolutely. If he is not the same level, how can he change the decision of the referee? said Busacca, who suggests video review could be a rarity at World Cups with only the best referees taken from each continent.If you have a top referee, one situation every four or five games, he said.Busacca insists video review cannot compromise the personality and football understanding of his officials, and he is no fan of letting coaches challenge decisions.Never lose the authority of referees, never take it out, he said.---THE REFEREEBjorn Kuipers supports video review within clear limits.You need a VAR which you can trust, said the referee from the Netherlands. If you dont have a VAR on the same level, it will be difficult.He foresees the two video reviewers joining a referees two assistants and fourth official as part of a regular match team from the same country, speaking their native language.The communication has to be very clear, very short, said Kuipers, who worked the 2014 Champions League final before going to the World Cup in Brazil. We have 10 seconds or 12 seconds if we want but its not good for the game.Kuipers was granted 10 seconds earlier this month when Italy hosted France in Bari, and he made a key video-assisted decision to show France defender Djibril Sidibe only a yellow card for fouling Daniele De Rossi. The Italy midfielders teammates wanted a red card.Players like it when they got confirmation, Kuipers said, referring to that outcome.---THE FIFA MANAGERAs FIFAs lead official for technological innovation, Johannes Holzmueller oversaw the process of approving goal-line technology and picking the GoalRef system for the 2014 World Cup.Holzmueller visited the U.S. in February to hear from pro leagues about their experiences with video review.The 11 contenders in talks with FIFA also include American firm XOS Digital and Hawk-Eye, the British system used in Amsterdam on Wednesday.The technology works, and FIFA must find a clear protocol for feeding information to referees, Holzmueller said.Coaches challenges could lead to stoppages to tactical reasons, and requiring referees to check images on a tablet computer also appears to be slow.We have to look at, `Does it improve the game and not just refereeing? Holzmueller said. ' ' '