Another warm night of baseball and the rains held off. Great boiling clouds overhead.
Unlike the first, this was a great pitching matchup until the late innings. Cain was dead calm and effective, CJ Wilson, unrattled by Giants' bats. Giants scored once in the 5th with a Renteria homer, and the game could have gone either way. Then the blister appeared on Wilson's finger in the 7th. He couldn't superglue it on the mound, so he was gone.
The Rangers' relievers came in, and the whole game unglued. Oliver got them out of the inning with only one Giant scored, but the 8th was a debacle. Holland loaded up the bases with walks and two Giants eventually walked home. Lowe wasn't any help. In the end, it was a 7-run Giants inning. We'll take it, but what a sloppy ending to a delightful pitching duel.
This game points out Washington's unfamiliarity with National League play - the late innings have been a disaster. If the Rangers don't turn things around quickly in their own park, this Series is over. The Giants have all the momentum after these two games.
Former Giant Jose Guillen's probe for HGH distribution again draws attention to the pressure players feel to excel at the superhero level in the Pros.
