By Jeremy Harness

SAN FRANCISCO – If the Giants are dejected about missing the playoffs, they sure didn’t show it Wednesday night.

A night after being eliminated from playoff contention and having to watch the hated Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate their clinching of the National League West on their home field, the Giants pulled things back together and showed they are still in it until the very end with a where-was-this-last-night? 5-0 win over the Dodgers at AT&T Park.

It’s pretty safe to say that the acquisition of starter Mike Leake has been far from what the Giants had in mind as they were trying to chase a playoff spot upon trading for him two months ago.

The right-hander was 2-5 in his nine starts with the Giants this season, which is still hard to believe given the fact that he arrived in San Francisco riding a four-game winning streak and gave up only two runs during that stretch.

Nonetheless, he closed out his season in style Wednesday night and reminded Giants fans of what he showed in Cincinnati, even though it was a little too late to make a difference. He threw a complete-game, two-hit shutout at the Dodgers by keeping the ball on the ground. He closed the game out in the most fitting way, as he got Corey Seager to bounce into a double play to ensure that he will have at least a winning record (11-10).

“I would say that this was his best game,” manager Bruce Bochy said. “A (two)-hit shutout, it’s hard to beat that. He really pounded the strike zone, he mixed it up, and he did a really good job of working the game plan.

“We think a lot of him. That’s why we acquired him.”

Matt Duffy made sure that Leake got some runs to work with early on, as he turned on a first-inning fastball from Dodgers starter Mike Bolsinger and sent it over the wall in left-center for a two-run homer to put the Giants ahead.

Two innings later, after Angel Pagan led off with a walk and then stole second, Kelby Tomlinson brought him in with a double down the right-field line. Pagan, however, was unaware that Tomlinson had hit the ball at first, as he had already taken off for third on a steal attempt and stayed there for a few seconds before realizing that the ball was rolling into the right-field corner.

The Giants added a run in the seventh – Nick Noonan’s first major-league home run – as well as the eighth, courtesy of an RBI single by Jarrett Parker, which especially proved crucial in helping Bochy make a pitching decision.

“That was a big hit, to allow you to stay with your starter a little bit longer to allow him to get a shutout,” Bochy said.

The Giants have one more game against the Dodgers before closing out the season with a three-game series at home against Colorado.