Tim Lincecum increased his NL-leading strikeout total to 122 with eight Ks in six innings and also singled in a run and scored from first, helping the Giants salvage a four-game split with an 8-3 win over the Cubs on Thursday. Lincecum seemed unfazed, and certainly not jinxed, in his first start since he made the Sports Illustrated cover this week, trailing all of two innings before holding down the Cubs? lineup.