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They also beat the A’s 8-6, and Brandon Belt stated, “It feels excellent to do that. It’s about being selective. Our hitting coaches say look for a specific pitch, and if you don’t get it, lay off it.”

Basic as that.

Suddenly, Giants hitters are working out patience. They drew nine walks 1 game after they drew ten. It was the 1st time they walked nine or more occasions in back-to-back games since July 16-17, 1995.

The Giants’ season high for walks final year? Eight.

Among the players who showed patience was Angel Pagan, who walked three occasions. Also, Barry Zito, who walked twice — as soon as with the bases loaded, and we can picture how A’s reliever Jerry Blevins felt about that.

“Facing pitchers is not that simple,” Zito said. “You see it in interleague at times, guys pitching to pitchers, particularly for relief pitchers. There’s an art to it. You know the guy is not rather a main-league hitter.”

Even though the Giants drew nine walks, their pitchers walked just one A’s batter.

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MLB Team Report – San Francisco Giants – NOTES, QUOTES

–RHP Brad Penny returned to the Giants’ organization, getting signed a minor-league deal. He’ll report to extended spring instruction on Monday, and manager Bruce Bochy stated Penny’s 1st assignment will be with Triple-A Fresno. The Giants see Penny, a Giant in September 2009 (four-1, 2.59 ERA), as a reliever. Penny, 33, threw off a bullpen mound early Friday in front of Brian Sabean, Dave Righetti and Bochy.

–LHP Barry Zito was pulled in the sixth inning with the Giants top 8-3, and he visibly was upset. Before the inning ended, thanks to reliever Steve Edlefsen, it was 8-6. “I want the ball,” Zito stated. “I was angry at myself going 3- to (Jemile) Weeks leading off the inning. I was a lot more upset at myself for not slamming the door.” In any occasion, he got the win.

–CF Angel Pagan hit fourth for the 1st time as a Giant and drew three walks and scored the team’s first run. He opened the second inning with a walk, a steal and a run scored, courtesy of 1B Brandon Belt’s RBI single. Pagan reached base safely with a hit and/or walk in 10 of 12 plate appearances, like four hits and six walks. He has six walks in two games.

–INF Joaquin Arias returned to the lineup following missing two games with a bruised forearm. He played third base and hit a sacrifice fly in his first plate look. Arias had been hit on the forearm by a 93-mph fastball from Rockies’ Jeremy Guthrie. X-rays had been unfavorable.

–2B Freddy Sanchez, right after receiving an epidural injection in his lower back, could play this weekend in extended spring instruction, said manager Bruce Bochy, adding the program is for Sanchez to play third base once more in an try to relieve pressure from his surgically repaired right shoulder.

BY THE NUMBERS: Ǫ — Consecutive Giants residence wins more than the A’s, dating to 2009.

QUOTE TO NOTE: “He wanted to stay out there and get out of it, He’s a competitor. Looking back, I most likely should’ve let left him out there. I just believed he was getting the ball up a small bit.” — Manager Bruce Bochy on Barry Zito, who wasn’t pleased when removed after 105 pitches in the sixth inning.

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MLB Team Report – San Francisco Giants – ROSTER REPORT

MEDICAL WATCH:

–OF Melky Cabrera (sore toe on left foot) was scratched from the Might 16 game, even though he pinch-hit in the eighth inning. He was back in the beginning lineup Could 17.

–INF Joaquin Arias (bruised left forearm) sat out Might 16-17 but was back in the starting lineup on May 18.

–INF Ryan Theriot (strained proper elbow) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to May possibly 9.

–3B Pablo Sandoval (broken hamate bone in left hand) went on the 15-day disabled list May possibly 3. He underwent surgery Might four, and he is expected to be out till early to mid-June.

–2B Freddy Sanchez (appropriate shoulder surgery in August 2011) went on the ǯ-day disabled list retroactive to March 26. He was nonetheless struggling with his throwing in mid-April. He started a rehab assignment with Class A San Jose on April 23, but he was shut down a couple of days later because of shoulder soreness. He played third base in extended spring coaching May 8-9. Across-the-body throws from second have troubled Sanchez, and the a lot more direct throws from third (with his momentum directed toward first base) might be less complicated. Immediately after receiving an epidural injection in his lower back, he could play this weekend in extended spring education according to manager Bruce Bochy.

–LHP Eric Surkamp (strained flexor tendon in left elbow) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 26.

–LHP Dan Runzler (strained lat muscle) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 26.

–RHP Brian Wilson (sore right elbow) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April ǭ, and he was transferred to the 60-day DL on April ǻ. He underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery April 19.

ROTATION:

RHP Tim Lincecum

LHP Madison Bumgarner

RHP Matt Cain

LHP Barry Zito

RHP Ryan Vogelsong

BULLPEN:

RHP Santiago Casilla (closer)

RHP Sergio Romo

LHP Javier Lopez

RHP Clay Hensley

RHP Steve Edlefsen

RHP Shane Loux

LHP Jeremy Affeldt

CATCHERS:

Buster Posey

Hector Sanchez

INFIELDERS:

1B Brandon Belt

2B Emmanuel Burriss

SS Brandon Crawford

3B Joaquin Arias

INF/OF Brett Pill

INF/OF Aubrey Huff

INF Charlie Culberson

OUTFIELDERS:

LF Melky Cabrera

CF Angel Pagan

RF Gregor Blanco

OF Nate Schierholtz

2B Freddy Sanchez, following receiving an epidural injection in his lower back, could play this weekend in extended spring coaching, said manager Bruce Bochy, adding the program is for Sanchez to play third base once more in an try to relieve pressure from his surgically repaired right shoulder.

LHP Barry Zito was pulled in the sixth inning with the Giants major 8-3, and he visibly was upset. Before the inning ended, thanks to reliever Steve Edlefsen, it was 8-6. “I want the ball,” Zito stated. “I was angry at myself going three- to (Jemile) Weeks top off the inning. I was much more upset at myself for not slamming the door.” In any event, he got the win.

Ryan Vogelsong didn’t know what hit him Saturday. All he knows for confident is that the A’s didn’t.

Vogelsong was at the center of a seventh-inning hit-batter controversy that led to all the runs the Giants scored in a four- blanking of Oakland, their 11th straight victory against their East Bay counterparts at AT&ampT Park.

But the real story of this day was Vogelsong on the mound, not at the plate. The tall right-hander retired the first 13 hitters he faced and ended up permitting only two base runners in seven innings — a bloop single to Seth Smith in the fifth and a walk to Daric Barton in the sixth.

Javier Lopez and Clay Hensley completed the combined one-hitter, pitching an inning apiece to finish off Vogelsong’s fourth straight commence in which he went at least seven innings and gave up one particular or fewer earned runs.

In this game, it was fewer, as Vogelsong solved the manage problems that had smudged his 3 preceding outings, if only a bit. He looked like the Vogelsong of a year ago, relentlessly and methodically attacking the strike zone and showing definitely no worry.

The only worry he showed against the A’s was when Tyson Ross buzzed a fastball straight at him as he squared to bunt right after an Emmanuel Burris single.

“You get a 90-plus mph ball coming at your face, it scares you a tiny bit,” mentioned Vogelsong, who hit the deck and then asked residence plate umpire James Hoye, “That ball hit me, right?”

Hoye agreed it did, and

A’s manager Bob Melvin scurried from the dugout to argue that the ball hit Vogelsong’s bat, not his physique. Immediately after the Giants logged a four-spot, Melvin re-engaged Hoye on the point and promptly was ejected.

Vogelsong in no way showed any sign of pain as he worked his way around the bases throughout the subsequent Giants rally, which included a Melky Cabrera sacrifice fly that broke a – stalemate, a Buster Posey RBI double to right-center and a two-run single by Angel Pagan.

If Vogelsong was giving a performance, he did a excellent job of denying it afterward. And the rest of the Giants in the vicinity, like manager Bruce Bochy, claimed they didn’t have a very good view of it.

“I wasn’t acting,” Vogelsong said. “Something hit me in the chest, whether or not it was my bat or the ball, one thing produced speak to with me. I did not know what it was. I believed I got hit. I believe I am a pretty difficult guy, so I just tried to get up and make confident all my parts had been in spot.”

The Giants were glad to see they were, because Vogelsong has quietly turn into their most consistent pitcher this month.

“I did not catch him significantly final year, naturally, but he was as good as I’ve seen him nowadays,” said Posey, who was sidelined most of Vogelsong’s breakout 2011 campaign, during which he went 13-7 with a two.71 ERA and made the All-Star team.

Mentioned Bochy: “He has excellent command of four pitches, he’s a wonderful competitor, he can pitch to each sides of the plate. He’s continued exactly where he left off (final season). To run off a streak like this, it’s shows you excellent this guy is.”

Vogelsong (2-2) lowered his ERA to two.27, finest amongst Giants starters, and struck out five. Surprisingly, he doesn’t believe this run convinces a lot of people he’s a thing other than a 1-year wonder.

“Nope, I think I require to do it for the entire season,” he said. “That’s a large target of mine this year, to have another solid year and type of place that behind me forever. I still feel like I have a lot to prove.”

• Pagan extended his hitting streak to 10 games and, perhaps much more impressively, has at least one hit in 30 of his last 31 games. Right after beginning the season 3 for 27 (.111), Pagan has hit .344 considering that (45 for ፃ) to raise his season typical more than .300 for the 1st time at .304.

  Bochy has been most impressed that Pagan hasn’t altered his hitting strategy given that moving from the leadoff spot to the middle of the order.

  “When guys move around in the order, we attempt to tell them don’t change a factor,” the manager said. “He hit cleanup (Friday night) and drew three walks. What I like about Angel, he doesn’t let exactly where I hit him affect him. He’s done a good job with out worrying exactly where he’s hitting.”

• Bochy believes veteran correct-hander Brad Penny, as soon as he’s ready to pitch with the Giants right after signing a minor league deal Friday, could fill just about any function the club demands him, whether it be in the rotation or the bullpen.

  “With his encounter, he gives us depth,” Bochy stated. “He’s a achievable starter if a thing happens due to the fact we do not have a lot of depth there and in the bullpen, he’s prepared to do anything we ask simply because he desires to be here. He’s a guy I wouldn’t be afraid to use to close a game if Casilla or Romo went by means of a stretch where they pitched a lot and I necessary to give them a day.”

• The Giants drew five much more walks Saturday to give them 33 in the past 5 games.

GIANTS VS. ST. LOUIS

Wednesday: Cardinals’ Jaime Garcia (two-2, four.09) vs. Giants’ Madison Bumgarner (5-two, two.80), 7:15 p.m., CSNBA

Thursday: Adam Wainwright (two-4, 6.16) vs. Matt Cain (2-2, two.28), 12:45 p.m., CSNBA

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – Barry Zito outdid his old Oakland team, Brandon Belt drove in three runs, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Oakland Athletics in the Bay Bridge Series opener 8Lj on Friday night.

Hector Sanchez had two RBIs to back Zito (3-1), who won the 2002 AL Cy Young Award across the bay in Oakland but left for a $ 126 million, seven-year deal with the Giants prior to the 2007 season.

Josh Donaldson homered, doubled in a run and hit a 3-run double off Steve Edlefsen for the A’s, giving Donaldson profession-bests of 3 hits and 5 RBIs. But Oakland couldn’t overcome a shaky night by starter Jarrod Parker (1-two) and lost their 10th straight in San Francisco’s waterfront ballpark dating to񎧙.

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Zito matched his season high with 5 strikeouts in five 1-three innings and also drew a bases-loaded walk in the Giants’ 4-run third inning. The A’s walked five that inning as San Francisco batted about on the way to scoring its most runs at home since finding eight final Sept. 12 against the Padres. Zito, who improved to just two-4 with aŇ.16 ERA in six begins against the A’s, walked off to a warm ovation from the sellout crowd of 41,477 with one particular out in the sixth after allowing Jemile Weeks’ leadoff triple and an RBI single to Cliff Pennington.

Belt had an RBI single in the second, drew a bases-loaded walk in the third that chased Parker, and hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth.

Zito came in with the lowest ERA of San Francisco’s starters at two.53 but raised it to three.00 and fell behind Matt Cain’s 2.67.

This has been a comeback season for the 34-year-old lefty, who was kept off the roster for all three playoff rounds for the duration of the Giants’ run to the 2010 Planet Series title.

Santiago Casilla, San Francisco’s fifth reliever, pitched out of a jam in the ninth for his 10th save in 11 chances. He retired Weeks on a groundout with runners on the corners to end it.

Belt put the Giants ahead 1- on an RBI single in the second that scored Angel Pagan, who drew a leadoff walk and stole second. Pagan, coming from second, produced a headfirst slide into residence but effortlessly beat the throw.

A’s pitchers went for 18 with seven strikeouts at the plate final season in interleague play and Parker struck out in the lone plate look Friday, extending the pitchers’ hitting funk to for 22 dating to Ben Sheets’ single on June 19, 2010, at St. Louis.

“Oh, I didn’t comprehend that,” Oakland manager Bob Melvin stated. “Hopefully we’ll be able to choose up on that.”

San Francisco’s longest residence winning streak against an opponent at AT&ampT Park is 12 games, against the Mets from Could 1, 2000-May possibly 16, 2003 �� so the Giants could match that with a weekend sweep. They have a nine-game property winning streak against the Texas Rangers, who visit AT&ampT Park from June 8-10 nonetheless searching for their initial win here.

A unique logo was painted on the grass behind residence plate in honor of subsequent week’s 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, and CEO and team president Larry Baer searched before the game for his Golden Gate Bridge neck tie.

Players wore special patches on their jerseys for the occasion, also.

Joaquin Arias had a sacrifice fly, returning to San Francisco’s lineup after missing two games since becoming hit in the left forearm by a pitch Tuesday.

A’s lefty Travis Blackley, claimed off waivers this week from the Giants, entered the ballpark on his old San Francisco ID and pitched aŁ-two-three eighth against his old team.

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