Spit, you start blowing cotton balls, you get a little dry mouth. All he is trying to do is find the adrenalin. Pagan, home run back in the seventh inning, gave the giants the lead. Giants have led this game at three different times and have not been able to onto any of them after pagan put them ahead in the seventh, the diamondbacks scored in the last of the sevens, and giants went back ahead of the tenth inning. And diamondbacks tied it in the tenth now were in the 11th. Pagan shows bunt, takes low. Pagan, righthanded in the seventh inning. Breaking ball, twostrike count. Its a hanger. Escobar. And that was a big swing of the bat. Only home run of the night for the giants, diamondbacks have hit three home runs in this game. 2 and 0. This is the 11th pitcher that has used by chip hale tonight. And mike by my count, lets, see, two, four, six, eight, 10 out of the bull pen. He has 11, in the 11man bull pen. And this is the tenth of those 11 that he has used. Giants have used five pitchers. Four relievers. Giants have ten relievers still that they can summon. 3 and 0 to pagan, buster posey on deck. Looks like casilla going out and giving the young righthander a pep talk. You got to sell it. Kid, your stuff is unbelievable, they cannot hit you. 3 and 0 to pagan. And that is another walk. He has walked. First two hitters. In his First Major League game. Buster posey. Mike butcher is going to come out and give the same sales pit pitch. Right now you know what is going on between thes of matt koch. He is freaking out. This is going to be a very calming session if you can do it. Try and relax this kid and get it back in the strike zone. Joe nathan, only one up in the giants bull pen, just kind of walking around. Warmed up in the tenth inning. So here we go. Buster posey, who is 0 for 5 in this game. 4 for 29 during the road trip. Buster swung the bat really well in denver, a single and a double and a long sacrifice fly in that game. One of the times that he didnt get a hit he drilled right to the third base. And that is ball one. Tonight he has grounded out three times and struck out twice. The longer it takes you to throw a strike, the harder it is to throw a strike. Strike zone looks like a coffee cup right now in the eyes of matt koch. Way outside. Lunging to grab it. Castillo, 2 and 0. And everybody in both dugouts knows what it feels like to have adrenalin surging through your arm. You lose the feel of your hand. You have so much arm speed, its impossible to control your arm stroke. So on 13 pitches, ten out of the strike zone. 2 and 1. Buster posy, Old School Idea dont swing it. Ive always liked that rule. A lot of hitting coaches saying you need to get a pitch to hit. But if you have been a pitcher and youre out there in this situation its almost impossible to throw a strike. So he has thrown one down, 2 and 1 to buster, i dont think he will take another one like that again. High in the air, deep right center field. Back there is tomas. Tagged up. And he makes it to third. Deep drive to right center that fell a little bit short for buster posey. Productive. Posey would have been disappointed. I think he thought he had a chance to hit one out of here. Now brandon crawford, the giants rbi leader for the season comes up. To try and knock in a run that the giants badly need. Crawford has gone 0 for 4. With a walk. His walks started the tenth inning rally. In which they ended up getting a run to go ahead. Hunter pence, a righthanded hitter is on deck. And the middle infielders are not all the in. Sort of the next stop to doing all the way pulled in. Goldschmidt on at first with pagan. Takes a strike. Maybe just getting that out a calming influence for koch. Going home with it. Is goldschmidt, the tag. And ran right into slider out didnt do anything. Well, that is a play that you have planned that you talk to by your third base coach. Youre going on contact. Really was no place for him to go. First baseman, pulled in, he is not a very tough road for goldschmidt. So pagan over to second. And that leaves it to hunter pence who has not been retired in this game. He has had two doubles, two singles and a walk. Pence has scored four of the giants six runs. Four of the times he has been on base he has been knocked in. For a wild pitch. Strike two call. Two fastballs, outside corner. Koch. Just in the nick of time started throwing strikes and hitting his spots. Once he got that one strike and 20 count for posey he settled down a bit. Fastball, just keep going out there. You never know. Pence in a protective mode, he may go chase that. Its not a bad pitch there. Pagan at second. Crawford at first, two down, 6 with an open base he could do that three more times. Spikes that one off. He has got a cover. Fourhit night for pence, but this was the biggest play defensively for the giants. That would have been a triple with one out. He takes the extra bags. From mitch haniger. That was a play back in the ninth inning. Castillo. Just got it. So koch could hardly have started worse but he gets through it. music plays from one way or another im gonna find y im gonna Getcha GetchaGetcha Getcha one way or another im gonna win ya im gonna Getcha GetchaGetcha Getcha one way or another im gonna see ya inhales cigarette now to the last half of the 11th inning. Giants had a couple of walks to start the. And then the three, four, five spots were not able to get it done against the rookie, koch, who got out of a really tight spot. So here is joe nathan, who is not a rookie, 41yearold righthander, trying to get the giants into the 12th inning of this game. What we see from nathan his one appearance with San Francisco. With the cubs and giants combined, havent given up anything, six base runners, five strikeouts, low 90s velocity, cut the fastball, pretty straight for the most part. His strength has always been to be able to shave the corners with the fastball. Velocity not quite the same as it was earlier in his career. Curveball still fantastic, a changeup, and he will throw anything, any time. Never worry about strikes with nathan nathan. Ball one to drury. Drury hit a tworun homer back in the second inning. Since then, called out on strikes, flied out to right and struck out swinging. Ball and a strike. Joe nathan coming back from tommy johns surgery, which the procedure was he was operated on last year. And back in the big leagues he had a few days with the chicago cubs in midseason. Curveball. Base hit. There comes haniger. Well, the issue, to see what chip hale does here, he has options. Want to give up an out, move a runner in scoring position. The giants are going to protect. So weve got haniger at the plate. Gosselin goes out on deck. 90 miles an hour. Joe nathan i remember years ago him as a very young pitcher getting a start in this ballpark. The dbacks had all of those veterans. Matt williams, luis gonzales. And it was at a time when he was still a starting pitcher for the giants. The move to the bull pen did not occur until later on. Joe nathan. A giant once again, they traded him away after or the 1999 season. Is that right . Or was it later on . Well, lets take a look. Now 2 and 1. Worked out that the trade worked out well. He became an out stastanding cl with the minnesota twins. 2002 was his last year as a giant. Or 2003, i beg your pardon. And nathan pitched in 78 games out of the bull pen. That year he became a fulltime reliever but not a closer. He won 12 games that year as a reliever. 79 innings, 51 hits allowed. 83 strikeouts. He was part of the deal that got them a. J. Pryzynski. Now the top of the winning line, moving into scoring position. Count goes to 3 and 1 to haniger. Haniger, the situation now becomes, you have to get him over, get him in. Short hop on the fastball. Posey, little surprised at the location there. Not having his glove in a good blocking position. 3 and 2. Above the hands, right back up there and do it again. Strikeout situation, second base, nobody out. Believe me, joe nathan knows the deal. That is what he is known for pitching for. Poppedup foul, out of play. Any foul he can get he will take take. Nathan in his third game with the giants. Got into three games in his nineday stay with the cubs earlier this year. Could be deep enough to get drury to third. Pence, with a long throw cut off. Relays it. Not in time. Indeed, good atbat for haniger. Moves drury up 90 feet. Now that changes everything. Phil gosselin, the pinchhitter. Hitting. 280. 200 at bats, just a couple of home runs. He has had 64 at bats as a pinch hitter. 17 pinch hits, including one home run. Infield is this this, as you mentioned, mike, the outfield comes into a spot where you feel like they can catch a ball and still keep drury from scoring. One out. The possible winning run at third. Ball one. Talked about nobody out, strikeout situation. Well, remember a third one out situation, thats a strikeout situation, too. Its a little bit different. Because from joe nathans perspective he has two bases to play with. So in his mind, every pitch can be an 02 pitch. If you ever have to give into him ever. Swing, yes. Or it was called a strike one way or the other. Thats perfect. Nathan has had five strikeouts in his three and a Third Innings in the big leagues this year. Gosselin,. 266 average as a pinchhitter. Just off the outside. 2 and 1. That was normally a 21 count, you walk him, so what, you still have a place. Segura having an excellent year, but hitless tonight, on deck. 2 and 1 the count. That one was in there, maybe more in there than nathan wanted it. But it worked. A swinging strike. This is a 91 miles an hour fastball. It gets by him. Swinging at that fastball, he has got to be thinking breaking ball. 2 and 2 the count. Breaking ball is in the dirt, blocked by buster. Blocked, thrown again. ni buster posey. Not dropped the sign yet. Now he does. Struck him out. Could not have pitched him more beautifully than that. Even with the target for posey, set his glove almost completely off the plate with two open bases and a pure strikeout situation nathan gets the strikeout. And he gets gosselin he gets him to go straight and swing out of the strike zone. Beautiful. He is not out of the woods just yet, as segura, having an excellent year, one of the top hitters in the league for batting average comes up. Big difference, now, two down. He has two bases to play with. You can pitch this to whoever you want to pitch to. Segura had a hot year with the bat, but 0 for 5 tonight. Behind him is owings, who has been red hot lately including tonight. Behind segura. Nobody, except for three guys have ever faced him. Only one guy has a lifetime hit. That is ricky weeks. That is an advantage for a guy like nathan. If you can save the stuff for two strikes and get to it. One ball and no strikes to segura. Struck out, come back, ground out to third, flied to shallow right, grounded out to second last time. 0 for 5. It was a gap, right center, pence on the run and the inning is over. That ball was hit hard. What a job of pitching for nathan. Belt, panik, nunez, coming up. To prove how authentic my new brewhouse bacon burger is im going undercover, at an actual brewhouse. Its awesome. Amazing what if i told you, you are eating a jacks brewhouse bacon burger from jack in the box. Not this one. Absolutely lying. And what if i told you. That im jack. Whaaaat . no way no didnt see that coming, did you . Porter ale cheese sauce, grilled onions, and bacon on a artisan potato bun. Jacks new brewhouse bacon burger, new from jack in the box. Hey, where did jack go . He was just here. The cardinals won tonight in st. Louis, giants bunched up in the wild card race, cardinals will be in San Francisco next thursday to start a fourgame pennant race, stretchrun thursday. It will be italian heritage night the 16th. Friday, star trek night. And on sunday, yoga day at the park get your tickets now. Dominic leone is how they pronounce it. Number 54, called from reno four days ago. 3. 24 e. R. A. , he was acquired last year in june, dbacks were in need of a catcher. And they made a deal with the Seattle Mariners for welington castillo. And he worked out brilliantly. They traded away mark trumbo. One of the guys they got with castillo was this righthanded pitcher, dominic leone. 24 years old, stocky guy, 511, 220 pounder, little over two years in the league. Just a bit outside. A little bit high, maybe, too. Lowtomid 90s with a fastball. Did not lack for arm speed on that particular pitch. Got a curveball and a slider. Curveball is a straight down slider. That is called a strikeout that is a dale scott special. That was a sometime bover. Belts had two singles, two walks, three at bats. Been on base four times. 2 and 1. Leone up earlier this year, in 20 games he has a 7. 52 e. R. A. In 20 innings, 37 hits allowed. Nearly two per inning, plus nine walks and a hit batsman. Allowed 47 base runners in 20 and a Third Innings. Called strike. Another high strike. He has also allowed seven home runs in 20 and a Third Innings. He is the 12th arizona pitcher of the game. 2 and 2. They have three infielders stacked up on the right side. Including the second baseman, segura, way out in the outfield. Lamb, the second baseman, owings at third. He shook off a slider to get to another fastball. 3 and 2 at 95 miles an hour. Leone is from south carolina. And went to clemson university. 3 and 2 the count. And he walks him. All fastballs. Second baseman. Fifth time that brandon belt has been on base tonight. So here is joe panik. Panik, who has walked, singled home a run, and then been ret e retired three straight times. Diamondbacks going to defend against the bunt. Edwardo nunez on deck, 66th. In the 12th inning. Ball one, and each team mou now in the last couple of innings had a chance to score. Koch got out of it. The 41yearold joe nathan gave up a single, threw a wild pitch, had a runner at second, nobody out. He got out of it. Stranding a republunner at thir there was a runner at third and one out in nathans inning. Getting out of jams is what weve seen in the last couple of innings. Thats a base hit. Belt will stop at second, strong arm right fielder, tomas. Two men on, nobody out for nunez. The fastball down. Segura may have had a little lead towards the base, had to come back for his momentum. The point you think about tomas is a good one. He is not going to challenge his arm. Another opportunity here, bruce bochy can do a number of things. Defending against a bunt. Meanwhile, corey gearrin. A righthander, starts to warm up in the bull pen. Goldschmidt, shallow in case of a bunt. Nunez, sacrificed fly and a double, also had a single. Bunts it fouled. That is a tip right there. He had a couple of sacrificed bunts with the twins before the giants acquired him in the trade. None with the giant. Kelby tomlinson has come out on deck. Giants have used their two pinchhit possibilities. Although they have adrianza as a switchhitter. Thats not very good either. Well, im surprised you put a runner on a second time. Every one of the bull penners coming out of the pen with the giants have all been righthanders. They have six lefties left. They have plenty of arms. That is not the issue with bruce bochy bochy. Just off the outside. And now, Roberto Kelly calls to nunez saying lets talk. For now and for the rest of the season. I cant argue with you. 1 and 2 the count. He has been knocking in runs, knocked in two tonight and six on this road trip. Thats out of play off to the right. 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