Hunter Pence’s rally cry — “Look into each other eyes! Play for each other! Win each moment! Win each inning!” — became the Giants’ rallying cry when they needed it most.

Buster Posey finished the regular season with a league-best .336 batting average to go along with 39 doubles, 24 homers and 103 RBIs. So when the opportunity arose for someone to submit a season-shifting knockout punch, who better to provide it?

San Francisco’s relievers allowed two runs over the final 14 innings of the National League Division series — all victories — to ensure the team advanced to the next round.

Buster Posey’s grand slam culminated a six-run outburst in the fifth inning that propelled the Giants to a 6-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in Thursday’s decisive Game 5 of the National League Division Series.

Jayson Werth knew what was on the line at Nationals Park on Thursday. A loss would mean Washington would go home for the winter. But Werth didn’t allow that to happen as the Nationals edged the Cardinals, 2-1, on Werth’s walk-off home run in Game 4 of the National League Division Series at Nationals Park.

Stunned, ecstatic and soaked with champagne, the San Francisco Giants capped an improbable Davison Series win over the Cincinnati Reds with a celebration almost as intense as the game they just played — a 6-4 Game 5 win on Thursday.

Cincinnati made undesirable history with its three-game collapse this week, but if there’s one thing the Reds can hang their hats on as they headed home on Thursday, it’s the fight they showed until the bitter end.

In the fifth inning of Game 5 of the National League Division Series, when it mattered most, the Reds’ usually outstanding defense faltered.

Following a 12-hour playoff bonanza that featured spectacular individual performances, two walk-off wins and two teams staving off elimination, Major League Baseball’s postseason brought pretty much the perfect day Thursday.

Mike Trout has moved on from his rookie season to his parents’ house in Millville, N.J., where he will spend the next four months catching up with his family and rekindling his social life, all while wondering how he can possibly follow up on one of the greatest individual seasons in baseball history.

More than 3,000 miles apart, Raul Ibanez and Coco Crisp walked off for their respective clubs on Wednesday night. They also walked off straight into the record books.

After four exciting games in the American League Division Series resulted in a 2-2 tie, the A’s and Tigers will square off one final time on Thursday to see who’ll move on.

Wanting to extend a storybook campaign that against all odds resulted in their first postseason trip in six years, the A’s reached into their back pockets late Wednesday night during Game 4 of the American League Division Series to discover, in the face of elimination, they’re not yet out of miracles.

Engaging in yet another win-or-else game against the Tigers on Wednesday, the A’s weren’t planning on saving any bullets — aside from maybe one.

Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” played earlier on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium than in previous postseason games, as injured closer Mariano Rivera threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Game 3 of the American League Division Series against the Orioles.

If Orioles pitchers Chris Tillman or Joe Saunders have been told who’s starting Game 4 of the American League Division Series against the Yankees on Thursday, they didn’t let on Wednesday afternoon.

Much like a year ago, when the Cardinals also qualified for the postseason as a Wild Card team, St. Louis is starting to act like a championship beast right now.