00:00A beautiful night for baseball in this city by the bay in San Francisco tonight and a rematch of the 2010 World Series as the San Francisco Giants play host to the Texas Rangers and look who's back Bruce Bogey and his second return trip to San Francisco as the manager of the Rangers a Hall of Famer wearing a Giants uniform for the first time Justin Verlander at 42 has shown up here in San Francisco the only pitcher to win an MVP a rookie of the year and multiple Cy Young awards sixty
00:29one strikeouts away from thirty five hundred and now sixty away the first strikeout tonight for the future Hall of Famer being able to command that fastball he started Smith off with a ninety three mile an hour fastball and all of a sudden to put him away you see that gear go up a little bit at ninety five ninety six miles an hour and so already starting to pitch aggressively in his own first base runner of the game for Texas comes on a two out walk from Verlander here's Doliz Garcia here's a fly ball to left from Garcia hangs up for Elliot Ramos
00:59and Justin Verlander on the mound in the Bay Area in giant orange works the scoreless first Nathan Evaldi only two walks with thirty one strikeouts the best walk to strikeout ratio in the majors yeah he's in tune with his mechanics he likes where his arm slot is and he's just gonna grip it and rip it and challenge you within the strike zone oh it's hammered out toward right center field Adamas gives it a ride back four near the wall and making the catch is Harris jumping up into the fence after he makes the grab
01:29Francisco Willie that ball was squared up and in most ballparks that ball is gone with two outs the batter Jung who leave Lee lines a base hit first one for the Giants tonight a solid smash of a single for Jung who Lee it's truly impressive how many balls he's squared up so far early on in this season two balls and two strikes on Chapman gets it hard through the middle of Evaldi at least and the second baseman Simeon makes the play I don't know how that didn't hit Evaldi
01:59being fortunate to have a 110 mile an hour swing off the bat of Chapman go just under him and as he finished he was defenseless especially falling off to the first base side and so he gives that look like wow through the legs the second inning here in San Francisco and Marcus Simeon another Bay Area native leads things off for the Rangers against Justin Verlander swing and miss Verlander has looked good again here early on his second strikeout
02:29tonight Verlander now 3441 career strikeout he's 10th all time swing and a miss well one more on his track to 3500 he has three tonight and a couple of scoreless innings Wilmer Flores leads off for the Giants here in the second Wilmer Flores hits it hard but it's caught by the third baseman Young I tell you what these Texas Rangers defenders are on their toes right now a lot of loud contact but they understand the game plan if the Giants are going to jump on the first pitch fastball and Young when he's healthy he can go get the
02:59baseball with the best of them two one two three innings from Justin Verlander tonight three strikeouts what do you like that to be right handed looks good off to a good start I mean you know we talked about earlier about how the Velo tends to pick up as the game goes along really good vert to it good feel for his breaking ball so far so good Willie Adamus Lamont Wade Jr. both given two balls a ride those guys have been scuffling but do you like what those swings tell you about where they are both really good swings that's just the wrong part to hit it in this ballpark when it's cold but they should feel good about the swing thanks Bob you got it a pretty good swing here
03:29from Jake Berger as he hammers one off the wall and left center field and it's a leadoff double for Berger here in the third got a slider middle center cut and almost hit that ball out of this ballpark on a line so you know he squared that ball up here's Wyatt Lankford with two outs and Berger at third base there's a line drive base hit the Rangers are on the board cut off by the left fielder Ramos Lankford frying for second base as Ramos couldn't handle the ball after it cut it off
03:59nothing lead and to be honest with you lucky not hit that ball out of the ballpark because that's right this wheelhouse they did rule it a double all the way for Lankford as he drives in the first run of this game his ninth RBI as Peterson pops this one up we'll see if it stays in play looks like it might over for it is Fitzgerald and he leaps out makes the catch crashing into the netting nicely done by Fitzgerald to win the third it's some help with some protection from the net no balls two strikes on Smith lined up the middle Adamus knocks
04:29it down picks it down picks it up the throw is too late infield hit for Josh Smith that was a bullet up the middle and Adamus could only knock it down in terms of outs above average Adamus is ranked among the worst defenders so far and here's a drive out by Lankford left center field it's over the head of Lee and in one hops off the wall Lee's going to try to get it in but Smith's on his way to the plate the relay will not be made and Wyatt Lankford's second RBI double tonight now all of a sudden the Rangers offense is cooking Giants are going to ask to see
04:59see if this ball was out of play or not which would make it an automatic double and put Smith back at third if it's to the right of that yellow line it's out of play and it kind of skipped up off the yellow line and then to the right of it which means it probably is out of play here so this will not be an RBI for Lankford but it will be his second double of the game well still second and third nobody out as Verlander goes to work against Jock Peterson infield is in for the Giants
05:29the double time to start the year he hasn't even driven in a run yet ground ball it is rolled off the glove of Peterson or rather a Fitzgerald in the right field it scores the run as Smith comes in Lankford goes to third and at long last Jock Peterson has his first RBI the first out of the inning gives the defense a chance to think about a double play off the bat of Simeon there's a ground ball in the hole
05:59start a 6 4 3 to win the inning I'm not gonna lie Wayne that was slick especially with Simeon running nice backhand excellent feet great turn by Fitzgerald well the Adamas leads off at the bottom of the sixth inning nasty pitch there and Evaldi gets another swing and a miss for a strikeout they're just not covering the split finger and being able to tunnel that pitch with the fastball and it's been a swing and miss pitch for Evaldi tonight
06:29I think it threw Lee off because he thought it was gonna be a slider down three and two now Chapman the Giants trying to get something going against Evaldi and Chapman strikes out Nathan Evaldi punches out the side of the sixth pitching at his finest Rangers just enough offense so far to hold the Giants off but tends to be the later innings when the Giants start to turn the game their way three balls two strikes runner goes and that strike three called the throw to second not in time Young steals
06:59as Rodriguez strikes out Berger second stolen base for young and we might have a replay review here on the strike him out throw him out double play look like this might end up in the Giants favor we might be outweighing retroactively we might have a strike him out throw him out double play the 40,000 umpires in this stadium right now things over turn now they were right it is a strike him out throw him out double play to win the inning
07:29the Giants in the bottom of the ninth innings they look to rally oh Lee got hit or maybe it hit the bat it's hard to tell they're gonna say that it was a strike and that Lee is out he was hit by the pitch but he could not hold his swing and it's strike three well did it hit the bat or did it hit him it sounded like it hit the bat that should be a foul ball what a big turn of events Wayne right there because we can clearly hear that that ball was hit off the handle so now with Lee cleared
07:59Bruce Bochy will bring Jackson into this game to try to complete the save that's in there strike three called and with the 13th strikeout tonight from a Rangers pitcher Texas completes the shutout to nothing the final here in San Francisco
