CHICAGO -- The feeling in the Giants clubhouse these days is that theyll always find a way to win. And San Francisco has been especially good at doing just that on the road. Angel Pagan had a tiebreaking single in the ninth Sunday as the Giants rallied to a 7-5 win over the Cubs, completing a 5-1 road trip to Houston and Chicago. Since the All-Star break, the NL West leaders are 19-6 away from home. "Weve been playing very well on the road," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "These were hard-fought games that could have gone either way. Its all about trying to get a series. If you do that, youll have a decent year." The Giants are more than decent right now. Theyre 76-58, a season-best 18 games over .500 after winning 12 of their last 16. And they have a favourable schedule in the final month. San Francisco plays the second-place Dodgers six more times, but L.A. is the only team left on the Giants slate that currently has a winning record. "Theres a feeling in the dugout, that even when things arent going right, we still feel like were in the game," said Giants starter Matt Cain, who lasted only five innings Sunday, matching his shortest outing of the season. "Ive been on teams before where youre down runs and you dont feel like youre in it anymore. This team feels like no matter what the score is, theyre gonna keep going out and find ways to score runs. Its a good feeling to have because you never feel like youre out of the game." Santiago Casilla (6-5) pitched an inning to get the victory Sunday and Javier Lopez got the final two outs for his sixth save in eight chances. San Francisco carried a 3-1 lead into the fifth but Darwin Barney scored on right fielder Hunter Pences error and Alfonso Soriano hit a three-run drive off Cain for his 25th homer, putting the Cubs ahead 5-3. Brandon Belt tripled in Xavier Nady in the sixth and scored the tying run on Manuel Corpas wild pitch. Then the Giants took advantage of a bout of wildness by Carlos Marmol to grab the lead in the ninth. Nady led off with a four-pitch walk and pinch-runner Gregor Blanco stole second with one out. Brandon Crawford then walked and Pagan followed with a single to centre. Marco Scutaro added another RBI single to give the Giants a two-run cushion. "I got up in the right situation to put the team on top, and I got it done," said Pagan, who once played for the Cubs, as did Nady. "For us, were trying to grind at-bats the best we can and make the at-bat as tough as possible," Pagan added. Marmol (2-3) was 1-0 with a 1.08 ERA in his previous 17 appearances. "Just a bad day. Youre not going to be perfect all year long," said Marmol, who lost the closers job earlier this season and then got it back. The Cubs could be on their way to 100 losses as they try to mix in young players and build for a future that looks a long way off. Manager Dale Sveum said he hopes his players take notice of how the Giants play the game. "Thats a championship-type baseball team that we have to somehow put together, too," he said. Cain was charged with five runs and six hits. The ace right-hander was 3-0 with a 1.82 ERA in his last four starts. Chicago starter Travis Wood surrendered seven hits and four runs -- two earned -- in 5 2-3 innings. The left-hander is 0-8 with a 6.33 ERA in his last 10 starts. San Francisco got three in the third, aided by an error on first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who threw wide to first on Cains sacrifice bunt, putting runners at first and second. Pagan, Pablo Sandoval and Buster Posey followed with RBI singles. Cain missed Barneys comebacker to start the bottom half of the inning. Barney, credited with an infield single, moved up on Woods sacrifice and scored on David DeJesus sharp single to make it 3-1. 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Yet here they are, trailing the Philadelphia 76ers 3-1 in the first round and trying to avoid elimination as they return home for Game 5 on Tuesday night. If the Bulls lose, they will be just the fifth No. 1 seed to fall to an eighth seed. It would also give Philadelphia its first series victory since 2003, a scenario few envisioned when the post-season started. "Its been a crazy year from beginning to right now," guard Richard Hamilton said Monday. "We know that." They also realize itll take a wild comeback for them to advance, particularly given their injuries. They lost Derrick Rose for the remainder of the season to a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee late in the series opener, and centre Joakim Noah will likely sit out his second straight game because of a sprained left ankle, leaving them without two of their leaders. As they staggered back home following Sundays 89-82 loss, they sure looked like a beaten team. History says theyre just about finished, too. Only eight teams have come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-7 series. Hamilton wasnt conceding anything. He was with Detroit when the Pistons turned the trick in 2003, beating in the first round Orlando after falling behind 3-1 and advancing all the way to the conference finals. "When we played Orlando, I remember Tracy (McGrady) made a comment saying that it feels good to be going to the second round, so we kind of took that personally," Hamilton said. "Right now, its personal. Its not just about business. ... Its personal. This is it. You can win and continue playing, or you can go home, so youve got to make it personal." The 76ers werent making any bold statements after Game 4, even though theyre on the verge of a rare feat. The only other eight seeds to knock off a No. 1 are Denver (1994), New York (1999), Golden State (2007) and Memphis last season, when it eliminated San Antonio, but while they put themselves in a good spot, they also got a few words of caution from associate head coach Michael Curry. Like Hamilton, he played on that 2003 Pistons team. "I think Michael Curry was great in the locker room yesterday when he talked about the Detroit-Orlando situation," coach Doug Collins said. "You cant go in with the idea weve got three games to win one. That would be very bad psychology. Weve got to go in with the idea thhat we want to go to Chicago and we want to finish the series.dddddddddddd" Andre Iguodala agreed. "Were hungry and we still want it just as bad as if we were down 0-3," he said. "Weve got to come in and play like this could be our last game." For Chicago, it has simply been a brutal series. Rose was looking more like an MVP after missing 27 games during the regular season because of injuries when he went down late in Game 1, and the Bulls havent been the same without their superstar. They got plowed over in the second half while dropping Game 2, and things only got worse in Game 3. As if watching their best player go down werent enough, they lost one of their emotional leaders after Noah stepped on Iguodalas foot while driving the lane. And in Game 4, they again came up short. Jrue Holiday has been giving them fits, averaging 19.8 points in the series. He nailed two 3-pointers down the stretch on Sunday after struggling most of the game. Spencer Hawes has been a big headache, too, shooting over 57 per cent and averaging 12.5 points in the series. The Bulls, meanwhile, have gotten little from Luol Deng. Carlos Boozer has been inconsistent, and Hamilton cant even get on the court down the stretch, with coach Tom Thibodeau going with Kyle Korver instead. He sat out the entire final period in each of the first two games and was in for just 27 seconds in Game 4 after playing 9 minutes, 43 seconds in the fourth quarter of Game 3. "You do (want to play in the fourth), but it is what it is," Hamilton said. "Whatever they need me to do, Im going to do. My job is if Im not on the court in the fourth quarter is to cheer for the next guy because I know the next guy would do the same thing for me." The Bulls came in with big expectations, eyeing a possible rematch with Miami in the Eastern Conference finals after grabbing the No. 1 overall seed for the second straight year. Now, theyre in a spot few envisioned. "Thats where your mental toughness, your physical toughness come into play," Thibodeau said. "Hopefully, youve been building the right habits all season long to get through situations like this. Every team in the playoffs is going through the same thing. Theres going to be ups and downs. You have to be resilient. You have to persevere. You have to get through things. "But we have more than enough to win with," he continued. "We just have to finish it off." ' ' '