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york. red sox and the braves, dodgers try to wrap up a victory against the angels in anaheim leading 3-1 in the 9th inning there. great action all across the big leagues going on as we speak and madison bumgarner, he and the giants have a chance to make it 2-0 against the a's. josh reddick who is two for three with a home run in this game takes off, 1-1. bumgarner now over 100 pitches so giants will get the bullpen going. in what has been a tough evening for bumgarner, the first two innings a struggle, that is for sure. first lefthanded hitter to homer against bumgarner all year. count 2-0. now 3 balls and a strike. sergio romo, the righthander getting loose. we could see romo in the game pretty quickly.

reddick takes a strike, as the slider catches the outside and now the count is full, 3-2. >> eric: earlier in the game, dave, we were talking about it, whether bumgarner was able to get through 6 innings, which he had a nice stretch of doing. >> dave: 3-2. reddick hits it foul. >> eric: giving up a lot of base hits, so far, the most for him, 11. >> dave: never given up more than 11 hits in any start in his big league career. throws a lot of strikes, that is for sure. >> eric: well, you throw strikes, you are going to give up hits. >> dave: 3-2 and reddick draws the walk. that will bring up yoenis cespedes who, in dramatic

fashion on thursday, sweeps the field, his first-ever walkoff hit as a big leaguer. and they are making the pitching change here. romo is coming in.

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♪ it's now or never ♪ whoa oh oh oh ♪ oh oh oh ♪ let's go [ thump ] [ crowd cheering ] ♪ [ can opening ] [ ahhh ] ♪ >> dave: bumgarner out, sergio romo in from the giants bullpen and romo misses. i think the strike zone is fairly tight right now for tony randazzo. fastball may be up a bit for ball 1. romo sr-bs another excellent year out of the giants' bullpen, particularly tough on righthanded hitters. cespedes fooled by the slider. >> eric: opponents hitting .149 against him.

has a .93 e.r.a., second-lowest among the national league leaders. >> dave: and we talked about the leaders. that pitch is up, 1 and 2. >> eric: actually he is the active career leader of all the pitchers with the highest strikeout to walk ration, 5.56. >> dave: going back a long time in history, best of anybody. remarkable. throws a slider and it just misses inside. cespedes took that one and it

was close. >> eric: that slider is really what makes him so devastating. so difficult for righthanded hitters. >> dave: you would think he would be throwing it again here. 2-2. the slider. struck him out, swinging. so romo gets cespedes. today's game sponsored by directv. if you call yourself a sports fan, you gotta get directv. and the all-new mazda cx5 with 35 highway mpg. getting toward twilight time here in the bay area, the oakland coliseum now in the shadows. giants and athletics. jonny gomes who has a home run against the starter madison bumgarner now faces romo with one out. the slider missing.

ball 1. the a's still have a while to go. this game is not over. they have a bullpen but not as deep as the giants bullpen has been. wilson out for the year, moto suspended for a long while. outside for a strike, 1 and 1. >> eric: the guy i played with on the oakland a's, same guy, just a name change. happens. don't blame him. if i could be 25 again, i would. >> dave: there goes reddick. romo not paying attention and he takes second base. >> eric: solidified the back end of the bullpen so well, 20 of 21 save opportunities and

that has allowed romo to stay in his role which is so effective against righthanded hitters. >> dave: 1-2 and gomes strikes out, swinging. so romo gets gomes. two down with inge coming up. dave tphr-plg, eric b -- flemming, eric byrnes. every year, fans mingle in the ball park with interleague play. >> eric: nice to see them. baseball is alive and well in the bay area. >> dave: indeed it is and the a's are having a year where, in the very tough american league west, three games below 500, the a's have a lot to be pleased

about. giants are a contending team in the west and certainly in the wild card race in the national league. the athletics had a good year for oakland but the young players liked josh reddick, first full year as an everyday major leaguer. cespedes with superstar potential and then the young pitching you were talking about earlier in the telecast. >> eric: parker. >> dave: i think oakland could be pretty good but they have had injury problems, consistency problems from the young kids and haven't put the pieces together. but i think the right pieces are there for them to put a great team forward. >> eric: it will take a little while but they have the right manager in place in bob

melvin. first thing he did when he took the job over here was change his cell phone to a 510 number. to officially engulf himself in the oakland area. [laughter] >> dave: you can see the wins and losses, retooling the pitch. romo walks a hitter which doesn't happen very often. it particularly doesn't and shouldn't happen with a 5-run lead, so that is a mistake and go will bring on the rookie norris. erbgs eric chip is the first base coach and really runs the

day-to-day operation. he is as good with numbers as any coach i have been around and has a passion for the game and it works very well because they feed off each other. here is chip, the energizer bunny and then bob who generally is reserved, but then i think that plays very well with a young team because you are not going to see the panic at the top. you see curt young there as well, we talked about him earlier. everybody in the a's organization happy to see him back as well. >> dave: norris would not swing, 1 and 1. a's trying to rally here, down four. last time up, he got his first big league hit off madison bumgarner. one to remember for the young catcher and they did save the baseball. strike 2 to norris. there it is with the authentic

stamp on there. that is the ball. >> eric: well there it is but what we did not show you is they pulled a switcheroo, throwing another ball in the stands hoping norris would see that at second base and panic a little bit. >> dave: he looked pretty calm to me but he could be in a panic now as this is not a good place to be. reddick breaks for third and makes it safely. daring base running. if you are down by five runs, two outs, already in scoring position. he better make it. that would have been an unbelievable mistake. romo just a little bit late. i guess there is some value to that but not exactly sure what josh was thinking about there.

[ indiscernible ] >> dave: off the plate on the outside. and romo and the giants are not too concerned about that run. inge never went any where i, he was still at first. but the risk reward calculus in a situation like that doesn't favor reddick. 2-2 to norris. romo trying to put him away but norris hanging in there. foul ball. can't reach it. norris came over in the geogonzalez trade and while gonzalez has had great success with the washington nationals, malone, starting pitcher for the a's has pitched very well for them. they got a couple of other draft picks in the minor leagues in

that deal. >> eric: well, the a's are constantly wheeling and dealing and they will have some trades that benefit them, benefit both teams and a few that will benefit the other team, andre ethier one of those. >> dave: dodgers and ethier finished off the angels, that game now finished 3-1. still 2-2 to norris and romo strikes him out, swinging. romo gets three strikeouts out of the bullpen and the a's do not score. not score. 3-1 in the coliseum, 9-4 giants it was soccer, and ballet, and cheerleading, and baseball. those years were crazy.

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>> dave: giants have come from behind in this one, leading the a's by four. theriot one for four, hitting .266 for the giants. norberto gets to start the inning clean. he inherited the bases loaded situation in the 7th, did walk one in but was able to limit the damage with a couple of strikeouts. fastball to theriot. jeremy affeldt, knee brace on, will start to warm up for the giants. he was throwing when romo was out there in the bottom of the 7th. affeldt, we were discussing the giants bullpen without wilson,

wowed mota, affeldt a critical part of that giants pen. >> lopez as well in the matchup with the lefty on lefty. >> dave: ground ball to inge, throws out theriot. melky procedure ra comes up with the bases empty and one out. it is a tight race and some real talented outfielders for the national league. giants have helped melky cabrera and he is in position as of now to start the all-star game, kemp, beltran, braun in pursuit but cabrera in the third spot. >> eric: boy, that is tight. >> dave: cabrera in the national league. he spent 2010 with the braves in the nl but most of his career, has been an american leaguer. and of course came over from the

yankees. >> eric: what surprises me is that he was actually able to overtake braun. >> dave: passionate brewers fans, braun having a good year himself. >> eric: and molina, both of those guys having big-time years. >> dave: big-time trade for the giants. a lot of folks thought the royals won that trade as sanchez had struggled mightily and cabrera has backed up his very good year, last year so far and even better this season. there is a strike. full count 3-2 to melke. >> eric: well, it was a steal it, really was. and a lot of people questioned whether cabrera was able to repeat what he did last year in kansas city. kansas city is not a great hitter's club. he had over 200 hits last year. now, if you look at his year in atlanta which wasn't very good, he struggled at times with the

yankees but he wasn't the player he is now. he showed up in san francisco this year on a mission to prove last year was not an aberration. >> dave: pops this one up and inge with all that territory at the coliseum circles under it and makes the catch. next saturday, these a's will be in arlington to take on the west-leading rangers after indicate ter league play. astros will meet the rockies. and several other games. a full night of baseball in america, next saturday, 7:00 p.m. eastern, 4:00 p.m. pacific, only on fox. big ovation for the giants fans here for buster posey, having a big day. a couple of walks, been on base three times, ninth home run of the year. >> eric: you mention the

giants fans and i credit them for giving the votes to buster posey and cabrera, enough of them to overtime, two guys having great years. >> dave: the comebacker and he can't make a play so he scorches another one for his second hit of the game. >> eric: what has been incredible for me is how much reputation the giants have when they go into opposing ball parks, particularly san diego. you saw it in anaheim. obviously looking for some sort of mixture herbut it seems like since 2010, this giants fan base has taken on a life of its own. >> dave: old-time francse, been around 130 years and a passionate fan base through most of that time, but 2010 did change things. giants on the road now are one

of the top draws in baseball. angel bagan, part of this refurbished giant offense with a hit and a walk in this game. he scored a couple of runs. >> eric: have to call them the three amigos. >> dave: all starters, all performers, all brand-new. that is hard to do. >> eric: a little different from the water buffalos in 2010. >> dave: quite well. buffalo had burrell. dodgers had torres who played a major role in that 2010 season, traded for pagan. [ indiscernible ] >> dave: the trade with the mets, i think you would say at

least now the giants won and won handily. torres has struggled. angel pagan has been excellent. >> eric: and really consistent. three different hit streaks of 11 games. i mentioned that earlier. at one point, i believe he reached base in 46 of 48 games -- or hit in 46 of 48 games. >> dave: a's and giants in the offseason made some really productive moves. pagan takes ball 4. so norberto having problems with his command, walks pagan. posey to second. two on, two out, sandoval coming up and bob melvin will make another pitching change. fifth pitcher of the game coming

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>> dave: fox baseball night in america is presented by budweiser. the-4 giants in oakland. it was 4-2 athletics after three innings of this game but the a's bullpen has not pitched well here today. jim miller, the fifth pitcher for oakland. second stint for the a's, pitching well but not all that frequently. two on, two out. breaking pitch to sandoval misses. >> eric: usually you would think you want to keep the switch hitter on the right side of the plate where for the switch hitters, that is their weaker side. sandoval is pretty equal on both sides and in this case, you

bring in miller. >> dave: took a rip, that one foul. >> eric: they are batting .433 against miller and righties at a .302 clip. >> dave: pretty good skill, righthander who can get lefties out. way to carve out a big league career. pablo sandoval has two hits in the game. takes that one and missed for a ball. 2-0. >> eric: when i was with oakland, there were times we wouldn't even have a reliever in the bullpen. quite the opposite of how the a's bullpen looks now but we had guys like jim masir with the screwball that was excellent at getting hitters out. >> dave: that oneo