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A beautiful night for baseball in this city by the bay in San Francisco tonight and a rematch of the 2010 World Series as the San
Francisco Giants play host to the Texas Rangers.
And look who's back, Bruce Bogey in his second return trip to San Francisco as the manager of the Rangers.
A Hall of Famer wearing a Giants uniform for the first time, Justin Verlander at 42 has shown up here in San Francisco.
The only pitcher to win an MVP, a Rookie of the Year, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
Sixty-one strikeouts away from thirty-five hundred and now sixty away.
The first strikeout tonight for the future Hall of Famer.
Being able to command that fastball, he started Smith off with a 93 mile an hour fastball and all of a sudden to put him away, you see that gear go up a little bit at 95, 96 miles an hour and so already starting to pitch aggressively in the zone.
First base runner of the game for Texas comes on a two-mile walk from Verlander.
Here's Dolis Garcia.
Here's a fly ball to left from Garcia.
Hangs up for Elliott Ramos and Justin Verlander on the mound in the Bay Area in giant orange.
Marks a scoreless first.
Nathan Evaldi, only two walks with thirty-one strikeouts.
The best walk to strikeout ratio in the majors.
Yeah, he's in tune with his mechanics.
He likes where his arm slot is and he's just going to grip it and rip it and challenge you within the strike zone.
Oh, that's hammered out toward right center field.
Adamas gives it a ride.
Back four near the wall and making the catch is Harris jumping up into the fence after he makes the grab.
Yeah, welcome to San Francisco, Willie.
That ball was squared up and in most ballparks, that ball's gone.
And with two outs, the batter Jung-Hoo Lee.
Lee lines a base hit.
First one for the Giants tonight.
A solid smash of a single for Jung-Hoo Lee.
It's truly impressive how many balls he's squared up so far early on in this season.
Two balls and two strikes on Chapman.
Gets it hard through the middle of Evaldi at least.
And the second baseman, Simeon, makes the play.
I don't know how that didn't hit Evaldi.
Nathan Evaldi being fortunate to have a 110-mile-an-hour swing off the bat of Chapman go just under him.
And as he finished, he was defenseless, especially falling off to the first base side.
And so he gives that look like, wow, through the legs.
The second inning here in San Francisco and Marcus Simeon, another Bay Area native, leads
things off for the Rangers against Justin Verlander.
Swing and a miss.
Verlander has looked good again here early on his second strikeout tonight.
Verlander now 3,441 career strikeouts.
He's 10th all time.
Swing and a miss.
Well, one more on his track to 3,500.
He has three tonight and a couple of scoreless innings.
Wilmer Flores leads off for the Giants here in the second.
Wilmer Flores hits it hard, but it's caught by the third baseman, Young.
I'll tell you what, these Texas Rangers defenders are on their toes right now.
A lot of loud contact, but they understand the game plan of the Giants.
They're going to jump on the first pitch fastball.
And Young, when he's healthy, he can go get the baseball with the best of him.
Two one-two-three innings from Justin Verlander tonight.
Three strikeouts.
What have you liked out of the right hander?
Looks good.
Off to a good start.
I mean, you know, we talked about earlier about how the velo tends to pick up as the
game goes along.
Really good vert to it.
Good feel for his breaking ball.
So far, so good.
Willie Adonis, Lamont Wake Jr., both giving two balls a ride.
Those guys have been scuffling, but do you like what those swings tell you about where
they are?
Both are really good swings.
That's just the wrong part to hit it in this ballpark when it's cold.
But they should feel good about the swing.
Thanks, Bob.
You got it.
Pretty good swing here from Jake Berger as he hammers one off the wall and left center
field.
And it's a leadoff double for Berger here in the third.
Got a slider middle center cut and almost hit that ball out of this ballpark on a line.
So you know he squared that ball up.
Here's Wyatt Lankford with two outs and Berger at third base.
There's a line drive base hit and the Rangers are on the board.
Cut off by the left fielder Ramos.
Lankford trying for second base as Ramos couldn't handle the ball after it cut it off.
And Lankford able to advance to second as he gives Texas a 1-0 lead.
And to be honest with you, lucky he's not hitting that ball out of the ballpark because
that's right in his wheelhouse.
They did rule it a double all the way for Lankford as he drives in the first run of
this game.
His ninth RBI.
As Peterson pops this one up to see if it stays in play.
It looks like it might.
Over for it is Fitzgerald and he leaps up, makes the catch, crashing into the netting.
Nicely done by Fitzgerald to end the third.
It's some help with some protection from the net.
No balls, two strikes on Smith.
Lined up the middle.
Adamas knocks it down.
Picks it up.
The throw is too late.
Infield hit for Josh Smith.
That was a bullet up the middle and Adamas could only knock it down.
In terms of outs above average, Adamas has ranked among the worst defenders so far.
Here's a drive out by Lankford.
Left center field.
It's over the head of Lee.
And in one hops off the wall.
Lee's going to try to get it in but Smith's on his way to the plate.
The relay will not be made and Wyatt Lankford's second RBI double tonight.
Now all of a sudden the Rangers offense is cooking.
Giants are going to ask to see if this ball was out of play or not, which would make it
an automatic double and put Smith back at third.
If it's to the right of that yellow line, it's out of play and it kind of skipped up
off the yellow line and then to the right of it, which means it probably is out of play
here.
So this will not be an RBI for Lankford, but it will be his second double of the game.
Well, still second and third, nobody out.
As Verlander goes to work against Jock Peterson, infield is in for the Giants.
Peterson has had such a miserable time to start the year, he hasn't even driven in a
run yet.
Ground ball, it is rolled off the glove of Peterson, or rather of Fitzgerald, into right
field.
It scores the run as Smith comes in.
Lankford goes to third and at long last, Jock Peterson has his first RBI.
It's the first out of the inning.
Gives the defense a chance to think about a double play off the bat of Simeon.
Here's a ground ball in the hole, a sliding backhand pick, out at second, out at first.
Adamas to start a 6-4-3 to win the inning.
I'm not going to lie, Wayne, that was slick, especially with Simeon running nice backhand,
excellent feed, great turn by Fitzgerald.
William Adamas leads off in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Nasty pitch there and Evaldi gets another swing and a miss for a strikeout.
They're just not covering the split finger and being able to tunnel that pitch with the
fastball.
And it's been a swing and miss pitch for Evaldi tonight.
That one's in there at the knees for strike three.
Sixth strikeout for Evaldi, two in a row to start the inning.
I think it threw Lee off because he thought it was going to be a slider down.
Three and two now on Chapman.
The Giants trying to get something going against Evaldi.
And Chapman strikes out.
Nathan Evaldi punches out the side in the sixth.
Pitching at his finest.
The Rangers, just enough offense so far to hold the Giants off, but tends to be the later
innings when the Giants start to turn the game their way.
Three balls, two strikes.
Runner goes.
And that's strike three.
Called to throw to second.
Not in time.
Young steals as Rodriguez strikes out Berger.
Second stolen base for Young.
And we might have a replay review here on the strike him out, throw him out, double
play.
Looked like this might end up in the Giants' favor.
Ooh, he might be out, Wayne.
Retroactively, we might have a strike him out, throw him out, double play.
One of the 40,000 umpires in this stadium right now thinks they're going to turn.
No, they were right.
There's a strike him out, throw him out, double play to win the inning.
Jung-hoo Lee will try to start it for the Giants in the bottom of the ninth inning as
they look to rally.
Ooh.
Lee got hit.
Or maybe it hit the bat.
It's hard to tell.
They're going to say that it was a strike and that Lee is out.
He was hit by the pitch, but he could not hold his swing.
And it's strike three.
Well, did it hit the bat or did it hit him?
It sounded like it hit the bat.
That should be a foul ball.
What a big turn of events, Wayne, right there, because we can clearly hear that that ball
was hit off the handle.
So now with Lee cleared, Bruce Bochy will bring Jackson into this game to try to complete
the save.
That's in there.
Strike three called.
And with the 13th strikeout tonight from a Rangers pitcher, Texas completes the shutout.
Two-nothing the final here in San Francisco.
