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(SportsNetwork.com) - The San Antonio Spurs have responded well to head coach Gregg Popovichs harsh words from last week and look to remain unbeaten on a six-game homestand, which resumes Wednesday versus the Charlotte Hornets. After last Thursdays 104-81 road loss against the Chicago Bulls, Popovich said his teams play was humiliating and embarrassing. The Spurs went out the following night and posted a 99-85 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers to kick off the stay at the AT&T Center. San Antonio got back to work in Sundays 101-95 triumph over the Milwaukee Bucks and Tim Duncan recorded 20 points and 11 rebounds to lead the way. Kawhi Leonard scored 19 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, while Boris Diaw and Manu Ginobili posted 14 and 13 points, respectively. We were more competitive. We were stronger with the ball. We competed harder in the second half than we did in the first half, said Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich. We made a few more shots, but it was about being competitive and being more physical and focused. A 32-point fourth quarter was all the Spurs needed to push their home winning streak to five games. The defending champion Spurs are 17-6 in the Alamo City. The Spurs, winners in eight of the past 10 games, will also entertain the LA Clippers, Orlando and Miami. Charlotte will open a three-game road trip against San Antonio, Denver and Washington, and is 7-13 as the guest this season. The Hornets will make the trip without leading scorer Kemba Walker, who will miss the next six-to-eight weeks because of knee surgery. Walker will have surgery to repair a torn lateral meniscus in his left knee Wednesday in New York and had missed three of the last five games with a cyst on the knee. Walker leads the Hornets with 18.8 points and 5.2 assists. Charlotte has prevailed in nine of its last 11 games, and handed the Knicks a 76-71 setback the last time out on Saturday. Brian Roberts ran the point in Walkers absence and scored 17 points, while Gerald Henderson netted 14 and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist added 10 for the Hornets, who shot only 32.9 percent for the game and registered 22 points on 18 New York turnovers. Thats not good offense, said Hornets coach Steve Clifford. We have a lot to work on, obviously, offensively. Cliffords squad is defending well at least and has held four of the last five opponents under 80 points. The Hornets suffered a 98-93 loss to the Spurs on Jan. 14 at Time Warner Cable Arena. Walker scored 28 points and Ginobili recorded 27 points in that one for the Spurs, who are unbeaten in the last eight meetings in this series. Charlotte is winless in seven straight trips to the Alamo City. Pat Tillman Cardinals Jersey . The defeat leaves the 41-year-old Nestor to concentrate on the mixed-doubles event after winning 12 straight matches and winning Australian titles in Brisbane and Sydney with two different partners. 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Teammate Chris Egi had 20 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks.Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - The San Francisco Giants walked into a stadium filled with rally towels and threw a wet blanket on the whole thing. It was a familiar October script. Madison Bumgarner pitched a four-hit shutout, Brandon Crawford hit the fourth playoff grand slam in team history and the Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-0 in the National League wild-card game Wednesday night. The Giants have won seven straight playoff elimination games, including five on the road. Bumgarner (1-0) kept them out of trouble in this one, scattering four hits and a walk while striking out 10, and giving the Pirates little hope of scoring a rally against him. So when Crawford homered with no outs in the fourth inning off Edinson Volquez (0-1), it cast a pall over the crowd of 40,629 -- a PNC Park record -- that lasted the rest of the game. Indeed, it had none of the drama of Tuesdays instant-classic AL wild-card game between Kansas City and Oakland, which the Royals won in the bottom of the 12th inning. The Giants are OK with that. They will face the NL East-champion Nationals in a division series with Game 1 scheduled for Friday in Washington. I think that experience really came into play today, said Giants manager Bruce Bochy. The guys threw out some good at bats. They looked very quiet up there. You want to create those chances and get guys on base, and they were relentless doing that until we got, of course, a big hit from Crawford. The Pirates were eliminated after making the playoffs for the second season in a row. They hosted the NL wild-card game last year, beating Cincinnati 6-2 in their first playoff game since 1992. Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle stuck with Volquez after the Giants loaded the bases with no outs on singles by Pablo Sandoval and Hunter Pence and a walk by Brandon Belt. He didnt call the bullpen until after Crawford lined a two-strike curveball into the right-field seats. Those three guys ahead of me getting on was huge. It set up the whole inning, said Crawford. You get a little confidence when those three guys get on. I only wanted to get one (run). Fortunately I got four. When someone like (Bumgarner) gets four runs, its lights-out. Volquez looked shell-shocked. The right-handder hadnt given up more than three runs in any of his last 12 starts, going 5-0 with 15 earned runs allowed and 64 strikeouts in 76 innings since his last loss July 21 to the Dodgers.dddddddddddd. Big swipe. Four-run swipe right there, said Hurdle. We havent run one of those with Edinson on the mound the second half of the season. That one put us in the hole that eventually just got bigger. The last Giants grand slam in the playoffs was hit by Buster Posey in Game 5 of the 2012 NLDS against Cincinnati, San Franciscos third straight win facing elimination in that series. They went on to beat St. Louis in three straight elimination games in the NL Championship Series that year before sweeping Detroit for their second World Series title in three years. Volquez stayed in the game until walking Pence to lead off the sixth inning. Pence went to second base on Justin Wilsons wild pitch and scored on Belts single to make it 5-0. Belt added a two-run single off Jared Hughes in the seventh and Posey had an RBI hit off Bobby LaFromboise in the eighth. Bumgarner, making his seventh postseason start at the age of 25, was perfect in four of his nine innings. The four his he gave up were all singles, including two to Josh Harrison. He threw 109 pitches, including 79 strikes. Hurdle said Bumgarner pitched a different game ... than what we scouted and threw all his pitches, in particular a changeup he said he used to keep the Pirates off-balance. He had it all working tonight, Hurdle said. Absolutely a very professional and well-pitched game by him tonight. It was the second postseason start for Volquez, who has been overshadowed both times. The first one was Game 1 of the 2010 NLDS against Philadelphia when Roy Halladay threw the second no-hitter in postseason history. Game Notes The other playoff grand slams in Giants history came from Will Clark in the 1989 NL Championship Series and Chuck Hiller in the 1962 World Series ... The Pirates, one of the NLs better home teams in the regular season, finished two games behind St. Louis in the NL Central this season in a race that came down to the final weekend ... The Giants finished six games behind the Dodgers in the NL West. ' ' '