I only have 5 words to say about this game..."chicks dig the long ball"! And so does every Giants fan after the display they put on tonight. There hasn't been too many games this year where they have hit 4 homers, but they did tonight, and that was just enough to edge the Dodgers in another torturous game.
It didn't start off very good for the Giants. They only had 1 hit through the first 6 innings, and I thought, here we go again. But the Giants R.O.Y. front-runner Buster Posey led off the top of the seventh with a monster homerun over the left-center fiel wall. It went halfway up the bleachers, which is a tape-measure shot at Dodger Stadium at night, when the ball doesn't travel as well. It seemed like that shot put a little juice into the guys on the bench.
Edgar Renteria led off the top of the 8th with another bomb off Lilly that almost went into the second deck right down the left-field line. This was his first game since August 10th, coming off the disabled list. Bruce Bochy then sent up Pat Burrell to pinch hit for Matt Cain, who after giving up 4 runs in the bottom of the 4th, including a 3 run homer to Jay Gibbons, really settled down to throw what baseball calls a "quality outing".
After that, Ted Lilly came out and Octavio Dotel came in. Burrell gave Dotel a battle, then on the 8th pitch of the at bat, he launched one over the left-center field wall. Not as impressive as Posey's, but just as effective. It was Burrell's 3rd career pinch hit home run.
After Javier Lopez shut down the Dodgers in the eight, Jonathan Broxton came in to try and close it out for the Dodgers. He over powered Jose Guillen with fastballs to start the ninth and struck him out. It was the fourth time Guillen struck out in the game. The next batter was Cody Ross. He just barely beat out a slow roller up the middle that Rafael Furcal made a great play on. That brought up Juan UUUU-RIBEEEE. On a 1-0 count, Broxton threw a breaking ball and got too much of the middle of the plate. Uribe crushed a line drive over ;again; the left-center field wall for the go ahead home run. Uribe has been in a little slump, but always is a threat to do just what he did tonight. That was the biggest at bat of the season so far for the Giants for sure!
Brian Wilson gave every Giants fan the heart attack performance that it seems he thrives on, and got the final out on a ground ball by Reed Johnson to 3rd baseman Pablo Sandoval. As Wilson said after the game, 1 batter gets a hit, 2 batters get a hit, you just have to "sack up" and get the last out.
Now with the San Diego Padres losing their 9th straight game, the Giants are right at the back door and about to bust in!
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