00:01On the hill today for the Giants will be the 22 year old right hander Hayden Birdsong 6'4", 215
00:07pound rookie out of Mattoon, Illinois.
00:10This is what he has done in seven starts, three and one with a 4-7-3 ERA.
00:1439 strikeouts in 32 and a third.
00:17And just 27 hits allowed in those 32 and a third.
00:21Into left field, well struck, Conforto back at the wall.
00:25Welcome back, Matt Vierling.
00:27He buzzes it up and over to start the ballgame.
00:31So happy to have him back in the lineup.
00:33And that's one of those pitches that we've seen.
00:36Matt Vierling hammer this entire year.
00:39That slider that just kind of spins maybe in the middle or in the inner third.
00:43And he jumped all over it.
00:46And a hard ground ball toward the middle.
00:48Backing far to his right is Wisely.
00:51He turns and throws him out at first.
00:53Ground ball to second.
00:54Over to his right to backhand it.
00:56Wisely straightens up and throws out Keith.
00:59Two straight down balls.
01:00Hand it clean.
01:01Here's a fastball.
01:02Swung on a miss.
01:03He struck him out.
01:04Inning is over.
01:05The pass.
01:05Montero with that 5-62.
01:07But there are reasons to believe this stuff will play at the major league level.
01:12And he's gone five or more innings in seven straight starts.
01:17Hit way out into triples alley.
01:19Can anybody get there?
01:20No.
01:21And it bounces over the wall.
01:24And that keeps Fitzgerald from having a triple.
01:28Tyler Fitzgerald came into the game hitting 3-12.
01:32That's his 10th double.
01:35Outside.
01:35He walked in.
01:38In the air right field side.
01:40Akeel Badu started back.
01:42Now he is in to make the catch.
01:44Fitzgerald tags.
01:45And he is in the third.
01:46He knew the whole way that he was going to go.
01:48And he broke fast.
01:50And he broke smart.
01:52And the walk.
01:53Fitzgerald will head out to the mound.
01:55A little settling down here.
01:57This is where we've seen Montero have the ability to just kind of get back to what he's trying to
02:02do.
02:03Well, here's Matt Chapman with the bases loaded.
02:05One out.
02:06One to nothing.
02:07The Tigers lead.
02:09And it may sit into center field.
02:11One run scores.
02:13Here's the throw home.
02:15Cut off.
02:16And with one swing in the back, the Giants take the lead.
02:20Go the other way.
02:22In a bases loaded situation, he's just not getting greedy.
02:26Putting a good swing on a good pitch to hit.
02:29And he winds up with a single that puts his team ahead.
02:31That's an unselfish at bat.
02:33He's up.
02:33Dylan Dingler off to a 3 for 20 start in the major leagues.
02:36Swings.
02:37It's a fly ball to center.
02:38He crushed it.
02:39Ramos going back.
02:40Tracking it out of the track.
02:41Looking up.
02:42Gone.
02:43First career home run for Dylan Dingler was a bomb to straightaway center.
02:49And the Tigers take a 3-2 lead in the second.
02:52Somebody go get that baseball and give him some pizza.
02:56Fitzgerald led off the game with a double, starting that two-run first inning round.
03:00And Carnacio on the runner at first.
03:02Up the middle.
03:04And a base hit.
03:06Montero in trouble in the second inning.
03:08It's important.
03:09His boys got him two more at the top of the inning.
03:11You've got to figure out a way to put a zero up this inning.
03:13Stop the bleeding right now.
03:14Get the zero, get the shutdown in, get in the dugout, get back on offense.
03:19That ball's whacked to right center field.
03:22Meadows and Badu.
03:23And Parker gets sideswiped by Badu.
03:27He gets up to throw it in.
03:29And there are two away.
03:32Oh, my goodness.
03:34Giants down by a run.
03:353-2.
03:36They've got two men on and two men out in the second inning.
03:39The 1-2.
03:40Swing and a miss.
03:41Got him to the fish ball.
03:43Word at the belt.
03:44Montero does not allow a run.
03:46We head to the third inning.
03:46Tigers still on top after two.
03:48We start the third inning.
03:49It's 3-2.
03:50The Giants trailing the Tigers.
03:52Swing and a miss.
03:53Strike three.
03:54Got him on a high fastball.
03:56Swing and a miss.
03:58Well, Keith hasn't done that much.
04:00But, again, we've seen Veerling and Keith swing at a fastball well above waist-high
04:05and strike out in this inning.
04:08Swing and a miss.
04:09Strike three through the curve.
04:10And that was a good one.
04:11And Birdsong ends up with three strikeouts in that inning.
04:14He's got five through three innings.
04:16But the Tigers lead 3-2 midway through three.
04:19I love fans who are at the wrong game.
04:23It's one of the greatest things of baseball because you know they're a real fan.
04:27Because their team's not playing.
04:29But they're here to represent anyway.
04:31And that's just the essence of baseball.
04:33As Parker Meadows makes the catch on Patrick Bailey.
04:36There's one away.
04:37The 0-2 ground ball tapped back to the mound.
04:39Grabbed by Montero with some quick hands.
04:42Runs toward first.
04:42A little underhand flip to Bly Madras.
04:45We're talking about five outs on 13 pitches for Montero in the third and now the fourth.
04:51Talking about 13 straight strikes as well.
04:53Here's another comebacker.
04:55A couple of boomerangs for Montero.
04:57And he's cooking, Dan.
04:59It's a six-pitch, one-two-three, fourth inning for Cater Montero.
05:03Dylan off his very first Major League home run.
05:07It went just right of center field.
05:09And he shoots this ball in the air once again right center field.
05:13Dingler one more time to the track.
05:15And that'll be a ground rule double bouncing off the track and over.
05:19Man, oh man, that's opposite field thump.
05:23And a first-pitch ambush again, just like the home run.
05:27So a meeting on the mound here with a runner at third, one out, 81 pitches deep for Birdsong.
05:32With the two left-handed hitters lined up after this and Eric Miller getting ready as fast as he can,
05:37there's a pretty decent chance that the Giants are trying to buy him a few pitches.
05:41And he may be coming in after this hitter.
05:44Line drive.
05:45Fair hugging the line.
05:46And Matt Veerling powers a curveball right around the chalk and it's 4-2.
05:52Matt Veerling had a couple days where he's resting the back, hasn't missed a beat.
05:57That's a curveball down and in.
05:58He just drops a barrel on it, tucks it inside that left field line, ends up with a double.
06:02That's a good hint from Matt Veerling.
06:04RBI, he's on second base, one out.
06:06Melvin heading to the mound.
06:07Miller will be brought in, the left-hander from the bullpen.
06:09Four in the third innings pitch for Birdsong and four runs allowed.
06:14And here now is Colt Keith, runner in third, two down.
06:19Keith 0 for 2 in the game.
06:21And Colt Keith likes left on left evidently.
06:24Again, an RBI single this time and it's 5-2.
06:28That's what makes him so good.
06:30He recognizes that it's on the inside part of the plate and pulls it.
06:34If it's out over the plate, he goes the other way off those left-handers.
06:38Just tremendous at-bats.
06:40Giants need some base runners and it'll be Michael Conforto to see if he can make that happen.
06:46Lift it out to left and hit well.
06:49And off the bottom of the wall and it kicks away from Malloy.
06:54Conforto is going to go for three and he is going to make it.
06:58A little bit of a hang on the breaking ball for Montero and Conforto says, yeah, that's where I like
07:03him.
07:03He got Malloy out there, tried to catch that ball.
07:05Once it kicked away, it was an extra base.
07:07So a leadoff triple.
07:08Chapman at the plate, didn't feel back.
07:105-2 Tigers are in the sixth.
07:11There's a swing.
07:12Lined into right field for a base hit.
07:15So Conforto will come in to score.
07:18Matt Chapman has knocked in all three of the Giants' runs.
07:215-3 Detroit.
07:22And that's going to be the end of the day.
07:25Kater Montero, A.J. Hinch is going to play this one like, as I said during a break earlier, Game
07:317 of the World Series.
07:32He wants a win to end this road trip.
07:35Two on, nobody out in the sixth inning.
07:38Here's Patrick Bailey.
07:39Two men on, nobody out.
07:41Third base side.
07:43Urshela.
07:43Keith loads up a throw and a double play again.
07:47Boy, you can't draw that up any better.
07:49I mean, that's just a perfect ground ball, like a coach is standing there hitting fungos right to Gio Urshela.
07:57Just a rally killer.
07:59Encarnacion.
08:00Right-handed hitter.
08:02Driven to right.
08:04And a base hit.
08:07Chapman scores.
08:08Encarnacion is going to make it.
08:11A double by Encarnacion to knock in that run with two down.
08:16And it's a 5-4 Tigers lead.
08:18Lloyd draws a walk to put a couple of runners on for Gio Urshela.
08:22The 1-1.
08:23Urshela, ground ball.
08:25And a diving stop by Wade at first from his knees.
08:28He'll feed to Jelly, who gets to the bag for the putout.
08:33And Jelly with a big fist pump and a roar.
08:36What a great play by Lamont Wade on the ground ball down the first baseline.
08:40Last of the eighth inning.
08:42Giants down by a run as Matt Chapman leads off.
08:45Swing and there's a high drive in the deep center field.
08:47Way back there.
08:48Still going back is Parker.
08:49He jumps.
08:50He can't get to it.
08:51It bounces off the wall.
08:52Coming around second.
08:53Digging for third.
08:54Chapman.
08:55And it's going to be a triple for Chapman.
08:57He has hit the ball hard four times today.
09:00A little lazy slider that kind of hangs out over the plate.
09:03He backspins it over the head.
09:05He just kind of slowed down a little bit and then said, I'm going for it.
09:10Belly slide.
09:10Three-bagger to open it up the inning.
09:12Here's Kanna.
09:13Infield in.
09:14Ground ball to short.
09:15He's coming home.
09:17Chapman is caught up in between third and home.
09:20Now Kanna is going to run for second base.
09:24The Tigers get the out there.
09:26Man, Chapman got a terrible break for the plate and now he's down at home.
09:31That is a real, real bit of fortune for the Tigers.
09:36Patrick Bailey batting from his stronger left side to 250 with some power from the left side.
09:42Chopper back to the mound.
09:43Now Hannafee's got a chance at second base.
09:46Hannafee's going to run him down.
09:48Throw to third.
09:48Third, Urshela with the tag.
09:50The Giants are reenacting the Agatha Christie novel and then there were none.
09:56There was a runner at third.
09:58They lost that for a runner at second.
10:00They lost that runner for a runner at first.
10:02Ground ball to third base.
10:03Urshela will glove the knee-high bounce and flip it over to Ibanez at first.
10:08What a job by Brendan Hannafee.
10:10He gives up the leadoff triple.
10:12And the Giants do not score.
10:15Oh, we have.
10:15The Tigers once again are playing it literally close to the vest.
10:19It's our wall-side windows pitching change.
10:21And Will will try to close up shop on his fourth career save.
10:26Oh, strike three.
10:27And the Tigers will take a win.
10:29Back to Detroit.
10:30Will Vest closes the deal on this Sunday afternoon in San Francisco.
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