since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. fsy. since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. isy. since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. rsy. since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. sy. since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. tsy. since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. sy. since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. isy. since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. nsy. since then, flied out to right center and fouled out to first. 1 for 3. nsy. since then, flied out to right centergy.. since then, fli foul tim into the glove of diaz. out number one. >> mike: comes out with a hanging breaking ball but a backup slider for a guy that throws hard is not a bad pitch. it's not one you purposely try to throw. it becomes a good mistake. that was a good mistake. got him a strikeout. >> jon: 40 strikeouts now in 39 2/3 innings for him. dicker john just a little bit low for ball one. dickerson, who came into last night's game, he started last night's game.

but came in as a pinch hitter the night before against arizona and he smoked a line shot that landed in san francisco bay. 11th pinch-hit home run of the season by the giants. 3-0. 98-mile-an-hour but out of the strike zone. dickerson has three pinch hits this year, all home runs as he took a shot at one right there. he didn't get it. >> mike: he had a good pitch to do it on. 98-mile-an-hour challenge. middle of the strike zone. i love it. you're seeing more and more of it around the game. >> jon: out of play off the left field side. second deck. 3-2. austin slater is on deck.

base hit to right field. 98 miles an hour and he hooked it right through the right side. >> mike: nice at-bat. >> jon: here is a guy with a few nice at-bats tonight. austin slater. >> mike: he's had the kind of night where you can't wait to see what he is doing next. >> jon: he opened up the giants first inning hitting one off the left center field wall and the beginning of what ended up being a four-run rally. he hit another double in the second inning and scored the fi. they have not scored since. he also had a single and he just

crushed all three of those hits extremely hard-hit balls and the double in the second, 107 miles an hour. dickerson at first. one out. 5-2 giants. back out of play. one ball, one strike. jake mcgee is getting ready in the giants bullpen. slater with a three-hit night going. trying to do more damage here. 1-2. >> mike: good swing. >> jon: kris bryant is on deck.

>> mike: rockies really backup center fielder sam hilliard, almost looks like double prevent defense. no doubles. >> jon: that is all for slater. two down. two strikeouts for estevez. >> mike: backup slider. this ball doesn't do anything. when you see that spin, you expect it to break and when it doesn't break, it winds up being a great pitch. again, you can't purposely throw a backup slider. i don't know that anybody has ever perfected that pitch. that is just a gift. estevez has done it twice in strikeout situations and twice has gotten a swing for a

strikeout. >> jon: bryant 1 for 4. left center field. that one is up and over the wall. an automatic double. >> mike: that cost him an rbi. boy, as soon as he hits this thing, you think catch that. screaming line drives he has been hitting and they have been finding gloves but not this time. but it's the warning track that does him in as it one hops the wall. denies him a rbi. >> jon: buster posey now with two runners in scoring position. buster has walked twice and grounded out to short twice.

zack littell has joined mcgee in the bullpen for the giants. strike one. dickerson at third and bryant at second. >> mike: if the score stays 5-2, you're going to see jake mcgee. if they score a run or more, you'll see zack littell. >> jon: lamonte wade jr. on deck. 0-2. >> mike: that is about as off balance you're going to see buster posey. >> jon: two strikes the count. two on, two out. strike three called!

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>> jon: on to the ninth inning from oracle park. giants 5-2 lead over the colorado rockies. here is jake mcgee to try and record the save against colorado. >> mike: look what jake has dodge this year. 51st time coming in and 24 saves on the year. 2.44 e.r.a. >> jon: garrett hampson will lead off against him. >> mike: mcgee a former rockie four years and originally came up from tampa. also played with the dodgers. he has found a good home here

with the giants. >> jon: called strike on the outside to hampson. he has a single. he also has struck out plate ap. would-be pinch hitter on deck is yonathan daza. >> mike: you know he was looking fastball with mcgee and mcgee just stole it. >> jon: mcgee gets the sign from buster posey.

two strikes the count. foul ball. into the second deck. fastball right down the middle of the plate. >> mike: posey wanted that up above the letters. these last couple of outings mcgee has had he has not been able to locate that high pitch above the strike zone. that is a good strikeout pitch for him. >> jon: slider for the strikeout! >> mike: i think this is something that posey is learning from mcgee is if he's not able to get that high fastball up there, keep throwing that slider up there because they simply will not look for it. mcgee has got a reputation for throwing fastballs 90% of the time. so two sliders in the same at-bat, we haven't seen that in a while. >> jon: here is daza, the pinch

hitter. that was a slider, fouled. strike one. connor joe, the lead-off man, is on deck. there is connor. all of the scoring in this game occurred early. giants four-run first inning. out of play. strike two. back to the fastball there. big blow in that first inning. the three-run homer with two down from wilmer flores. then later, another rally developed and thairo estrada knocked in a run. charlie blackmon looking on from the dugout. >> mike: best mullet in the league! >> jon: another foul.

97 miles an hour. right down, what do you say, mike? right down? geary? right down market street? right down embarcadero. 0-2. there is the high fastball but away. 1-2. daza hitting .288, one of their top pinch hitters as well. that slider, he got a piece of it, lunging at it. >> mike: he did well to get a piece of that. that had the perfect location.

most the sliders we have seen mcgee throw in an outing ever. this is perfect location. outside corner at the knees. >> jon: 1-2 the count for daza. into the hands, back to the screen. >> mike: really got in on the hands tight with that 96-mile-an-hour but still not the location that posey wanted. he keeps putting that mitt with a target above the strike zone and not once tonight has mcgee been able to pinpoint that location.

>> jon: too low. 2-2 now. daza trying to get something going here. rockies got a run in the second and knocked in by gomber. there is connor joe on deck and mcmahon in the hole. they got another run in the third. neither team has scored since. cron knocked in a run in the third to make the 5-2 and still the score now as we play in the ninth inning. foul ball over toward the colorado dugout. >> mike: he has fought off a sliders and then fought off pitches on the inside corner off the hands. he hasn't made any contact near the sweet spot of the at-bat. this is a great at-bat. he is hanging in there.

>> jon: back to the slider but that is down and in. 3-2. full count. this will be the tenth pitch from mcgee to yonathan daza. the crowd now is getting into it. base hit to left field. >> mike: that's a great at-bat. fought off a lot of nastiness to finally get something he could put on the field and find a hole. for mcgee, he worked himself into a 3-2 pitch. three-run lead you can't walk anybody. you got to make them swing it.

>> jon: here is connor joe. he has gone 0 for 4 tonight. ground ball to third, a lineout to first and flyball to left center. then he clobbered one a liner to center for an out his last time. deep to left field! down the line! and way out of here! now it's a one-run game! after the ten-pitch battle from daza, connor joe unloads on the first pitch he sees. 5-4 giants. now andrew bailey will go out to the mound to talk with jake mcgee. >> mike: outside target they set

up and down and in and connor joe drops the head on it and gets what he is looking for and barrels it out of here. that was a loud line drive. right now, mcgee is hav his fas. >> jon: that ball was was hit at 110 miles per hour, 407 feet the estimate. so this one has become much more tense and the rockies are going to sends up trevor story as a pinch hitter for mcmahon. he is the possible tying run.

he is well capable of hitting the long ball. ground ball to first. foot race. flores gets the unassisted out. two down in the inning. >> mike: wasn't a lot of drama in that at-bat. first fastball, set the defense up perfectly. wilmer flores catches it and wins that foot race you're talking about. >> jon: setting the defense is a big story of the giants season. two down. here is brendan rodgers. 1 for 4. there is a good fastball up above the belt. strike one. >> mike: keep climbing. keep raising it up three inches.

up around the letters, he gets a little more carry with that fastball than he does around the knees. >> jon: strike two called! giants fans now all around the ballpark are standing, rooting mcgee on. way outside and high. brendan rodgers got a single in the first and extending his hitting streak to 15 games. he has been hot. he has hit four home runs in that time. high fastball fouled out of play. second deck.

two strikes. >> mike: he is getting in that location that posey has been wanting him to get to with that fastball. that last fastball, rodgers was late. >> jon: charlie blackmon, the veteran, left-handed hitter, on deck. two down in the ninth. 5-4 giants. down the right-field line. slicing toward the corner and off the pillar and yaz drops it! but rodgers will still hold with a single. yaz played the carom, he stopped and when yaz dropped it, he thought too late now. >> mike: a nice at-bat from rogers taking that high fastball to right field. ball slams into the wall. but giants catch a break.

rodgers has to stay at first base. he is not in scoring position. >> jon: now charlie blackmon, the veteran. two runs are in. possible tying run is on base. blackmon tonight is 1 for 4. he had a single his first time up. ball one. blackmon has hit two walkoff homers this year, including one against the dodgers.

he hasn't hit many home runs but he has hit some big ones. way outside with a slider. 2-0. zack littell is heating up in the giants bullpen. the red hot hitter on deck is c.j. cron. high down the right-field line! it is foul, although the wind watching that one carry it looked like the wind was pushing it back toward the foul pole. >> mike: it was trying. woo! >> jon: it had the distance by plenty to be a home run.

>> mike: they are asking bill miller if they can have a look. that angle there, i mean, you really can't tell. >> jon: i guess the umpires in new york, that is the angle that they will be looking at too. >> mike: that is what they are going to look at. i don't know how you can tell from that look. it wasn't exactly down the line. there is a camera well in this ballpark that looks down that first baseline but there is no camera there tonight. >> jon: bill miller, the crew chief, and it was his call. >> mike: this is definitely ratcheting up the drama here, jon. >> jon: if it's a fair ball, then the rockies are ahead.

>> mike: charlie blackmon thought he hit a home run. but, there's no way new york could tell from that angle. giants catch a break. >> jon: we didn't have a great angle either but it did look foul from where we were. >> mike: that's what i'm going with! >> jon: it also looked like the winds was pushing it back toward the foul pole. i remember barry bonds hit one one night and it pushed it back and it hit the foul pole. 2-1. up the middle. base hit center field. rodgers will stop at second. slater aggressively charged the ball. it has not gone well for jake mcgee. he has allowed four hits in this

inning. now the possible tying run is in scoring position. gabe kapler is making a move with zack littell in the bullpen. >> mike: you got the hottest guy in the national league right now stepping in the batter's box, c.j. cron, last week's player of the week, so stay tuned.

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>> jon: it was 5-2 when we went to the ninth inning and 5-4 now with two down in the ninth inning. another pitching change. zack littell comes in. rockies have the guy they would like up there more than any other up there available to them right now. >> mike: he has one save and one save opportunity sunday in milwaukee a two-inning run where he had a one-run lead against the brewers. here he is going to be asked to get the final out of this game and to do so, he is going to face the hottest guy in the national league. he was the player of the week last week in the national league. >> jon: he has three hits tonight. >> mike: he doesn't have to challenge him. he has got a base open here with two outs. if he gives up a walk here, it's not the ends of the world.

>> jon: elias diaz, a right-hand sided -- right-handed hitter is on deck. rodgers at second. blackmon at first. back to the screen. 95 miles an hour out in the middle of the plate. 1-1. >> mike: that is a quick bat. one thing we have seen from cron tonight is he has covered a lot of width on the outside corner. you could throw a pitch six inches away and he could get to it. he is in full command of that strike zone. >> jon: strike two! >> mike: 95'd him. with that second strike, everybody is on their feet here at oracle park.

>> jon: he has the sign from posey. looks at second. here it comes. he struck him out! he blew it by him at 96 miles an hour! the giants hang on to win it and for zack littell, another save this week. that was pretty impressive because nobody has been doing that to cron for a while. >> mike: he took on the best hitter and he sat him down. what a week zack has had. >> jon: giants win their sixth in a row to maintain their five-game lead over the dodgers. we will be back with more. stay with us.