Steve Kroner only about 12 hours from Thursday's finale of the Giants' three-game series with Houston: Some of the pertinent and not-as-pertinent facts about Matt Cain‘s 27-up, 27-down night: ** He threw 125 pitches, 86 strikes. ** His 14 strikeouts were a career high. The previous best: 12, against Colorado, on Aug. 6, 2006. ** [...]