The Rangers had runners on alternate and third, one out, sixth inning, and it was occasion to go to work. He threw the best fastball he had on the inner half to Nelson Cruz, who was looking for something different and popped out to first. He challenged Kinsler with another squiffed fastball and Kinsler flew out. Three outs. End of inning. Job done.
"I mean, he executed his pitches," Giants catcher Buster Posey would say. The Rangers are in big grieve here in the series, no inquiry about that now. They blundered through Game 1 with their star, Cliff Lee, starting.
And they were overwhelmed by Lee, and then they they innocently melted down in Game 2. The gamble was 1-0 wealthy into the seventh -- a terrible pitching altercation between Cain and C.J. Wilson -- when Rangers proprietor Ron Washington began to force inscrutable moves such as allowing lefty Darren Oliver to balls righty Juan Uribe with a page on more recent (his righty, Darren O'Day had been warming for two innings). Uribe blooped in a run-scoring single.
He might have done that against O'Day too. But there's unambiguously no explaining the eighth inning: O'Day started the inning, struck out the elementary two batters of the inning and then allowed a quiet range ball to Buster Posey that became a single. And then Washington pulled O'Day to tie up his lefty, Derek Holland, against the Giants lefty Nate Schuerholz.
That would be Nate Schierholtz, who hit.242 and slugged.366 this year. Washington had to get the match-up help there. Well, Holland threw 12 balls in 13 pitches -- making World Series news by fit the premier pitcher to put 10 or more pitches and cast only one strike.
Why didn't Washington have someone up in the bullpen throwing? "I reflection he would set himself," Washington said. Holland's third pussyfoot scored a run, giving the Giants a 3-0 lead. Washington, realizing then that a course-correction was not coming, brought Mark Lowe came in. He walked Juan Uribe and gave up a lone to Edgar Renteria. That made it 6-0.
At this point, in came lefty Michael Kirkman, which sparked Giants superintendent Bruce Bochy to put on in auspicious pinch-hitter Aaron Rowand. He hit a triple. Andres Torres followed with a double. And that's how we got to 9-0. "Did you under consideration using Neftali Feliz," a correspondent asked Washington -- Feliz being the Rangers' closer and best reliever. "I didn't at all," Washington said.
And Feliz, having not systematized in Game 1 or 2, will be well-rested for the Texas platter of the series. Yes, the Rangers are in big trouble. Of course, things can twist as the series shifts back to Texas, but yesterday's news is against the Rangers. The Giants became the foremost tandem in World Series old hat to goat 20 or more runs in delightful the to begin two games.
They were a below-average attack duo the unscathed year. But, no signification what the names may seem like, they don't look out on love a below-average rig now. The Rangers sent their two best pitchers out there.
And they still cannot celebrity out how to get the Giants out. Of course, Cain remains grounded through it all. We're in admissible position, he said. There's a lot of baseball left, he said. We've been lucky, he said.
He wants to arrest on in the count, he said. Simple. Real. Tangible. The questions in the postgame seminar were about the unsubstantial -- Cain's occupation in days and whether or not he has ever organized this well and all that lot of thing. He shrugged it off.
At one nitty-gritty someone asked him if he would come up with a monicker for himself. "We don't diminutive ourselves," he said.
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