The San Francisco Giants are taking on the Texas Rangers in the first game of the 2010 World Series. This is the pitching matchup of the series as the Giants will send Tim Lincecum to the mound while Cliff Lee gets the starting nod for the Rangers.
Lincecum got into trouble early and often in the first two innings. In the first inning, Vladimir Guerrero reached on infield single to first and Elvis Andrus scored on the play. In the 2nd inning Andrus hit a sacrifice fly to center scoring Benji Molina to give the Rangers a 2-0 lead. It could have been worse for the Giants as Lincecum gave up 4 hits and a walk in the first 2 innings but managed to escape big scoring innings. It appeared that the Giants weren't ready for the Rangers style of baseball.
The Giants got to Cliff Lee in the 3rd inning when Freddy Sanchez, with runners on 1st and 2nd, lined a double (his 2nd of the game) to left field to plate Edgar Renteria. The next batter up was rookie cather Buster Posey and he knocked in Andres Torres to even up the score at 2-2. The runs ended Lee's 16 1/3 innings of scoreless pitching in the post season. That put runners at 1st and 3rd with one out, but Lee got out of the jam by striking out Pat Burrell and Cody Ross to end the inning.
In the 5th inning, things just fell apart and imploded on Cliff Lee as the game completely slipped away from him. Sanchez doubled for the third time off a Lee to deep center scoring Torres. That was followed up by a Cody Ross single to center that plated Sanchez. Aubrey Huff then singled in Pat Burrell. Lee was chased from the game after 4 2/3 innings. He was relieved by Darren O'Day, who came in and was greeted by a 3 HR blast by Juan Uribe - Ross and Huff came in to score on Uribe's shot to left center to give the Giants an 8-2 lead.
In the 6th inning, Texas got to Tim Lincecum and he didn't make it out of the inning. Benji Molina doubled to left scoring Ian Kinsler. David Murphy came in to pinch hit and delivered a single to right field scoring Molina to make the score 8-4 in favor of the Giants.
In the 8th inning Travis Ishikawa doubled to deep left field for the Giants and that brought home Edgar Renteria to extend San Francisco's lead to 9-4. Freddy Sanchez then came up and knocked his fourth double of the night which drove in Ishikawa (and Sanchez's 3rd RBI of the night) to make the score 10-4. Nate Schierholtz then knocked in Sanchez to extend the score to 11-4 in favor of the Giants.
The Rangers rallied in the ninth inning when Vladimor Guerrero hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score Julio Borbon. Nelson Cruz doubled to deep right center, scoring Elvis Andrus and Josh Hamilton. It was too little to late for Texas though as their rally came up short. The Rangers came out on the losing end of a 11-7 win for the San Francisco Giants in game 1 of the 2010 World Series.
The two teams will play again tomorrow night in San Francisco. Starting time is 7:57 PM EST for Game 2.
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