Pablo Sandoval went 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs in Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday night.

The San Francisco Giants third baseman now has a .328 lifetime postseason batting average, which ranks ninth among players with at least 125 plate appearances.

Sandoval has also reached base safely in 24 straight postseason games, baseball's longest active streak and the fourth-longest ever.

"I feel great that we won -- that was the more important thing," Sandoval said. "We scored runs. That's the only thing that I care about right now. My teammates did a great job of taking advantage of all the mistakes that [the Royals] made."

Pablo Sandoval went 1-for-4 with a walk in Game 4 of the NLCS on Wednesday night, breaking a Giants franchise record.

Sandoval has reached base in 22 straight postseason games dating back to Game 4 of the 2012 NLDS.

The streak breaks Barry Bonds' franchise record set from 2002 to '03.

Matt Carpenter hit a home run for the third-straight game as the St. Louis Cardinals topped the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.

Carpenter is just the sixth player in history to homer in his first three games of a single postseason.

He also became the first Cardinal to homer in three consecutive games in a single postseason series, and only the second to go deep in three straight in the postseason overall.

"I feel really good at that plate right now," Carpenter said. "Throughout the regular season, I wouldn't say it was a struggle, but I never really went through a stretch that I felt I was really hot. I just felt like I was just having consistent at-bats."

Doug Fister pitched seven shutout innings on Monday as the Washington Nationals fought off elimination against the San Francisco Giants.

Fister lowered his postseason ERA to 1.78 as a starter, the fourth-lowest in Major League history by a starting pitcher with at least seven starts.

The Nationals defeated the Giants 4-1 after a pair of one-run defeats in the first two games of the NLDS.

Only Sandy Koufax, Christy Mathewson and George Earnshaw recorded a lower postseason ERA than Fister.

Brandon Crawford became the first shortstop in Major League history to hit a grand slam in the playoffs on Wednesday night.

Crawford broke a scoreless tie in the top of the fourth inning of the National League Wild Card game between the San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates.

"You know, it's obviously cool to do something like that," Crawford said, "but you can't hit a grand slam without the guys in front of you getting on base. So it's kind of a team thing in that sense and I'm just glad it helped us get a win. That's what matters, in the end."

The Giants went on to win 8-0 as Madison Bumgarner shutdown the Pittsburgh offense.