Joe tim lincecum came out of the bullpen in the top of the sixth. Now he will start fresh. The top of the seventh. He will deal with garcia, the rookie. And then avila and then a pinchhitter. Valverde continuing to get loose. Strike one. Twotime cy young award winner 2008 and 2009. Working out of the bullpen for bruce bochy. Bochy would love to get him through this inning and lift him for a pinchhitter in the bottom of the seventh. Garcia has grounded out twice. That one rides up and in. Ball and a strike. Tim its almost twofold reason for lincecum to do well here in the world series. To restore his confidence. So he can get back in the giants rotation next year. Joe a guy who led the National League in strikeouts three straight years. Rough season in 2012. 1015. That is strike two. The era of 5. 18. You mentioned it, tim, when he made the start in st. Louis, game four. 17 wild pitches. Velocity not what it was. Trying to get it back. Prefers now working out of the stretch. Nobody on. The 12. Smothered by posey. 22. Joe avisail garci garcia. On 22. Ball three. Like it was, tim, with zito there is not going to be a lot of room here for error with lincecum with the kind of weapons that bruce bochy has at his disposal in the bullpen. Poseaffeldt, casilla, romo. Tim lefthanders and righthanders. Joe it was 12. Now its 32. It will stay there. Tim lincecum the type of pitcher that can get away with a decrease in velocity, if the illusion of a strike is still there. That is very, very important. In his arsenal. A lot of deception with that delivery. The splitter, the changeup. He is in a position now where he has to throw a fastball, with a fiverun lead. Joe he gets a swinging strikeout. To start the seventh. Tim the illusion of the strike was there. That more than velocity is what lincecum was lacking, actually that is a slider, not a fas fastball. Served as the illusion of a strikeout. I mentioned in the League Championship series, the comment that this year doing a yankee game that if a pitcher can throw strikes that look like balls, and balls that look like strikes, that is the right formula. Joe one out, nobody on. Avila. Takes ball one. Alex tonight 02. A decision to be made with jim leyland with the start of verlander. He called on avila. They have a good option in gerald laird. Who won it all with st. Louis last year. Now hes back in the world series with detroit. He had a very good season. He allowed avila to not get worn down as much in course of the season like he did last year. He limped through the post season. That misses. Its 21. Tigers won 88 games and won the a. L. Central by three over the white sox. They were a team that was five games under under. 500 on the road under jim leyland. Off the hands, strike two. Giants won 94 games and ran away with the n. L. West. Another full count. That has lincecum shaking his head as the pitch bounced in on 22. Joe two out. Three batters faced, three strikeouts for tim lincecum. Joe all three swinging strikeouts. Peralta to end the top of the sixth. Garcia, avila in the seventh. The batter will be quintin berry. To bat for albuquerque who went two innings, allowed one run on one hit. A hit, third home run of the night by Pablo Sandoval. Strike one. Tim i will tell you, joe, i dont know if you noticed it or not, but the nod of relief after that strikeout with posey out there showed to me a relaxed expression on lincecums face. Maybe not the weight of the world off his shoulders, but relief. And relaxation. Joe the chop to the right side. Scutaro waits. Gets the speedy berry. We talk about relief. That is what tim lincecum provided tonight for barry zito and the giants. Time to stretch in game one. Its the first time in world Series History since 83 that one cy young award winner relieved another. Jim palmer relieved mike flanagan. Tim how about that . 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Tim its about as bad body language after that raul ibanez pinch hit home run as i have ever seen in a pitcher, joe. Joe one ball, one strike. Tim trying really not to go over the fence in right center at yankee stadium. It did. That tied it at four. Joe this season, 36 of 42. In save opportunities. Opponents hitting. 243 against him regular and post season. Last year, just over over. 200 at. 204. A lot of his stuff has flattened out. Misses at 92. He was working with his pitching coach, jeff jones during that time off. The five days off. They found a flaw. They thought the right leg was dragging. When he was letting the ball go in the process. Taking some of velocity away from his pitching stuff. Facing tim lincecum who throws right, bats left, had four hits in the regular season. The count is 22. Tim it is just a very, very short time where you have to correct that flaw. And you have to do it on baseballs biggest stage. Very, very difficult. The idea of time to pitch him is the ideal time to pitch him is tonight. Jim leyland knows that. Joe a good swing by lincecum and a 91mileperhour pitch. Joe leyland a very interested observer what valverde can do getting an inning of work in. And he has run it full. Good pitch. Didnt get the call. He steers in. Its a full count. 157 with the red hot giants. Six runs, all three home runs hit by sandoval. Here in game one. Joe lincecum strikes out. Geico ingame box score for the giants, who else would you highlight . The man in the number three spot. Three for three with three home runs. He will get another atbat before the end of the night. As angel pagan walks in. Posey has a hit tonight. Pagan, this batter, bounced one off the third base bag, which led to a threerun third inning. Went for a double, his only hit tonight. One out, nobody on. Pagan takes a strike. Tim this may seem like a small thing to the average fan, but ill tell you, players really appreciate this. Youve got a twotime cy young award winner. Who gave up six earned runs tonight. Very short period of time. He went in. He came back out. That says an awful lot. I mean that speaks volumes and tells you what kind of guy Justin Verlander is. Joe and teammate. Tim and teammate. Theyre very few pitchers that are teammateoriented. Its such an individual position. Nothing starts until they initiate the action. So by their very nature, the definition of it is individual. Joe here is pagan lining one in to the rightfield corner. Garcia cant get to it to cut it off. And pagan will be content with a standup double. Here with one out in the seventh. His second double of the night. Tim pagan led the National League in triples with 15. He had that on his mind. The splitter. That is the first splitter valverde has thrown. And its crushed by pagan. Joe we have seen this throughout the post season from pagan. The salute after the double. Joe here is scutaro. One for three. Rbi single and a run scored and the threerun third. Best fastball of the night from valverde. And its strike one. Joaquin benoit, the righthander is up. Not throwing yet. Tim im sure that jim leyland hates the fact he has to get benoit up. Trying to restore confidence in valverde. Joe that is a big part of what the tigers have in their bullpen, valverde. 02. It was a twostrike, tw twoout rbi hit for scutaro in the third. He set up 02 here. Left side. Base hit. Pagan. Makes it 71. As he scores on another twostrike hit by marco scutaro. [ applause ] tim there are a lot of words to describe scutaros performance in the post season. I cant think of many more than relentless. He just does not stop. Joe his first world series opportunity here tonight. Two more hits. And here is Pablo Sandoval. Looking for home run number four. Tim boy joe ball one. Down and away. He is on a list, a world series list with babe ruth, Reggie Jackson and albert pujols. Never happened in the post season. One player to hit four home runs in one game. He has a base hit. Its in to left centerfield. Scutaro will turn and go. Its a fourhit night for Pablo Sandoval. Joe time for the nikon replay. Albert pujols, last year, a threehomer game in game three of the world series. Now tonight, game one for the giants against the tigers. Pablo, solo shot. Tworun shot. Solo shot. His first three atbats. First and third, only one out. A chance for more. Buster posey at the plate. If this is an audition to regain his job as a closer for valverde, its not going well. Tim no. Joe posey one for three. Takes a pitch count. Out and in. Ball one. Joe good fastball there. Its a oneone count. Joe posey, just nine hits in 48 atbats in the post season. Tim yeah, buster is pulling off. If he goes to right field with a couple of hits, its amazing how that can make you well. To get back in to the position of driving the ball. Joe that is in to right. A base hit. Its 81 giants here in the seventh. 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What his teammates were going through and he was going through. Joe hunter pence at the plate. Two on, one out. First pitch, a strike. Talking to dotel. Benoit. Forced to relieve valverde here in the seventh. Joaquin benoit having a tough time seeing the signs put down by avila. Tim asking questions that have no answers. Joe here is the 01. Hunter pence. Now George Kontos, the righthander will get loose. This has turned in to a long halfinning in the bottom of the seventh. Two more runs. 81 giants lead. 11. Back and out of play. Strike two. As we come toward the top of the hour, game one of the 2012 world series. San francisco has led from the first inning on. Home run by sandoval san. He had another in the third. He had another in the fifth. Joe its now 81. That gets away. The runners will advance to second and third. On a wild pitch by benoit. [ applause ] tim it looks like a splitter. But theyre all fastballs. Catchers are not expecting fastballs. No, it was a splitter. Thats interesting. That ball was a tough, tough play for alex avila. Now the infield has to be pulled in. And i imagine well see kontos at the top of the inning. Joe porcello goes down now to get loose for the tigers. Here is the 22. Two outs. And a strikeout of hunter pence. Third time he has struck out tonight. Pablo sandoval, with three home runs. That is his first. Thats his second. That is his third. Off alburquerque, straightaway center. 422 feet. In this inning, a singl single. He is at third. Posey at second. Two outs for brandon belt. Good pitch. Bottom fell out of that. Strike one. Tim that was a good splitter. Joaquin benoit with very, very good stuff. Most good splitters, hitters swing over the top of them. And theyre rarely strikes. The good ones are out of the strike zone. Joe here is the 0 01. 02. Belt has flied out twice. Walked and scored a run. Theres porcello. Its benoit on the mound now. Two out. Runners at second and thir and an 02 count. 81 game. Ball one. 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[ male announcer ] the new droid razrm by motorola. With 4g lte speed and a big screen thats fit for your hand. Say hello to the fullscreen phone. Joe theres Chris Massina who play doctors danny on the fox hit series the Mindy Project airing on tuesday at 9 30 eastern, 8 30 central. Theyre obviously the fox seats, because Phillip Phillips was down the row and he did a great job with the star spangled banner at the beginning of the night. Foul out of plate to right. Lincecum goes back out there. Kontos was getting loose. Tim, we finished off the sixth. Worked here in the eighth. After having a 123 seventh. 11, the count. Two for three. 21. Tim i thought the two extra runs the giants scored meant that kontos would go back out there and then perhaps bruce bochy would have lincecum ready for tomorrow night. But he is probably trying to space him to have a couple of days between tonights performance and maybe have him ready for game three. Joe yeah. He may tell you that lincecum is not going to work backtoback games. It doesnt matter. Tim right. Joe jackson trying to get on base for the third time tonight. Do it leading off an inning. For the second time he went. That is strikeout number four for tim lincecum. One out here in the eighth. Tim well, we were talking about the illusion of a strike. And again, Austin Jackson goes too far. You know, Detroit Tigers know of no other pitcher in the American League who throws like tim lincecum. He is so unusual in that delivery. Velocity is important. But not as important with most pitchers. Joe here is infante. Ball one. Omar, 1 for 3. Singled in the first. Tigers put two on in the first. Then fielder popped out. Young bounced out. The bottom of the innin inning. Pablo sandoval hit a home run. And the giants have never trailed here in game one. One out, nobody on. 20, the count. Infante is up. On lincecum in the National League. He, lincecum, hits the outside corner. 21. Zito on his way to a 20 record this post season. Now watching after his first world series start in his long career. Two outs. [ applause ] scutaro takes care of infante. This year, two lucky consumers won the chance to play with mlb legends through the pepsi max field of dreams program. Fans voted and the game will be played in the hometown of a. L. Consumer winner Johnny Corradi from rochester, new york. He and five friends will host the n. L. Consumer winner, steven catchmark from washington, d. C. Log on to mlb. Com pepsimax for details. Two out, nobody on. Here is cabrera. Miguel has been on base twice. With a walk and rbi single. There isnt anybody that is more imposing fi