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With the Giants all but finished in the postseason hunt, it was hard to imagine them accomplishing anything at Coors Field on Thursday night to upstage all of the intrigue in the executive suite back home.

Then Pablo Sandoval did it. In the sixth inning of an 8-5 Giants victory, their fifth in a row, the Kung Fu Panda huffed and puffed and demanded that his season-worn legs move as fast as they could around the bases toward third base.

With a head-first slide, Sandoval had a triple to complete a cycle, the 25th in franchise history and the first by a Giant since Fred Lewis' at Coors Field in 2007. Sandoval also had the second in the majors this season. Milwaukee's George Kottaras accomplished it against the Astros earlier this month.

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