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FRANCISCO -- The text message from his manager landed on Andrew
Cashner's phone about 1 p.m. PT on Saturday afternoon.  "He told
me to be ready to start," Cashner said.  When the Padres
scheduled starter, Clayton Richard, fell ill to a virus that
kept him bedridden, the team called upon Cashner, the hard-
throwing righty who had pitched exclusively out of the bullpen
this season.  Not anymore, though.  Cashner didn't make many
mistakes, and even the two-run home run he allowed to Pablo
Sandoval was not that bad of a pitch, though the Padres couldn't
muster anything against Tim Lincecum and three Giants relievers
in a 2-0 loss before a sold-out crowd of 41,995 at AT&T Park.
"Their guy was throwing well," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said
of Cashner. "He was throwing hard and he had a good breaking
ball going."  His guy wasn't bad, either.  Lincecum (2-0) looked
like the Lincecum of old, mixing in a tantalizing split-finger
fastball that proved next t