Giants' Tristan Beck, not Blake Snell, starts vs. Cards

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Blake Snell's abbreviated season with the San Francisco Giants apparently is coming to a premature end.

Snell, the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, was due to start Saturday in the next-to-last contest of the year against the visiting Cardinals. However, after St. Louis won the opener of the three-game series 6-3 on Friday, the Giants announced that Tristan Beck wo