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on fox has mike trout and the angels taking on the rangers. andrew mc cusp. continuing at 7:00 eastern right here on fox. irving falu, smith, and venable for san diego, continuing in relief for the giants. you mentioned the strength of the san diego bullpen being a possible chip for whoever the new gm may be. so far, padres certainly haven't missed a beat in terms of baseball operations. with hinch running things, a new gm will be put in place. fox sports.com senior writer ken rosenthal with the latest. >> matt, eric, the padres already have interviewed four

candidates for their gm vacancy, and club president mike dee told me this morning they expect to interview seven to eight more over the next ten days. after that, the team will pare down the list to two or three and invite them back to the final round. it's possible that the gm will be hired sometime this month before the nonwaiver deadline on july 31st. but it's also possible that the start date for the job will not come until after the deadline. >> matt: ken, thanks. padres' president on the right, aj hinch on the left. >> eric: how about a former teammate of mine, chicago cubs, mark beyer right there, one heck of a year with the cubs in 2003. career upset by injuries. but, man, oh, man, could he pitch. >> matt: part of the padres' front office here.

seth smith with a line shot out to center. and blanco handles that one. two away. start thinking about the ninth. and huston street up and throwing. it will be his to try to save. morse, blanco and crawford's schedule. here's will venable now. 0 for 3 so far this afternoon. there has not been a lot of consistency in terms of baseball operations in san diego. certainly when you contrast it with the consistency in san francisco. brian sabean, longest tenure gm in baseball. the pads will be on their fourth different gm in an eight-season span. when a successor to josh burns

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those are the two padres responsible for our burger king plays of the game. the two-run rally in the seventh, yasmani grandal doubled, and cameron maybin sent him home with the go ahead run with a sac fly to center field. a 3-2 lead, the first for the padres. and one that huston street is

going to try to bring home in the top of the ninth. >> eric: you look at those numbers right there, the thing that jumps out at me, 23 saves in 23 opportunities. the giants right now, michael morse at the plate, 3 for 6 lifetime against huston street. really, the giants' best bet if they're going to score at all this inning. >> matt: it will be morse, blanco and crawford. top half of the ninth. only two base hits today for san francisco. the home run by gregor blanco gave them their 1-0 lead. scored a run in the seventh. blanco walked and came around to score. high and deep to left. and the giants have tied it!

mike morse in the midst of a dismal 10 for 55 stretch with one swing of the bat, as perhaps rein investigation reinvigorated a sleepy san francisco lineup. >> eric: morse, again, 3 for 6 off of street. the other guys just haven't had any kind of success. and michael morse is, you know -- for lack of a better phrase, on the back of that milk carton for the last month, month and a half, missing. and shows up, hits a big home run. and he was a huge reason for the way the giants started off the

first two months of the season. >> matt: a ball and a strike to gregor blanco. a rare hiccup by a padre right-hander who has been perfect this year. in fact, as this now counts as a blown save, charged to huston street, it will go down as his first since last september, against these giants. just doesn't come easy, does it? you know bud black gets the two in the seventh, and offensively challenged club looked like they had enough to do it today. and more will be required. >> eric: it's a man's game. nothing is easy.

you're going to have your struggles. things look really obvious out there, they can take a turn. >> matt: two balls and two strikes to gregor blanco. full count now. >> eric: i'm looking at the giants. three hits, three runs. you know, that's, again, i guess that's efficiency right there. >> matt: one way to look at it. blanco wants time. >> eric: i think the thing -- bud black's frustration and even more so huston street, there was one guy that could hurt you. one guy, and that was morse. you know, you look at the rest of the lineup. bruce bochy's bench has been depleted because sandoval hurt, had to use colvin earlier in the game. and not a lot of options.

>> matt: yeah, it's a brand-new story here after morse's home run has tied it at 3. >> eric: that thing was crushed, too. michael morse, watching him in bp, man. he can hit some balls a long way. >> matt: well, he is a big old boy. blanco taps it to second for falu. and one away. and i suspect he knew it as soon as he got ahold of it. >> eric: that thing might have just landed. almost knocked it -- he's fired up. watch it. watch. oh, yeah. helpless feeling as a pitcher. that was second deck. second deck line drive.

>> matt: so now brandon crawford with the run in and one away here in the ninth. so not only is that the first blown save by huston street this year, it ends what was the longest active streak in converting save opportunities dating back to last year. street had gone 23 in a row. crawford pops it up. two away. >> eric: again, you get back and look at the inning. one of the things that bud black was talking to us prior to the game and huston street and his success, he doesn't have the overwhelming stuff, but knows how to pitch the ninth, knows how to navigate, who is on deck. that was one of the qualities that, you know, he had mentioned. and really this inning, again, one guy -- one guy is going to beat you and that's the man sitting right there. they let him get him.

>> matt: so now joe panik. little more intrigue. we're going to go to the bottom of the ninth. and it remains to be seen how bruce bochy is going to tackle that from a pitching perspective. he's got santiago casilla and sergio romo, both hot. romo, as we mentioned, being bounced out of the closer's role. >> eric: the padres are 3, 4 and 5, too. start with headley, grandal and goebbert. >> matt: ball and two strikes the count to joe panik. >> eric: just looking at things, i think bruce bochy has got to go casilla.

headley swings the ball, swings the bat well against romo. not a lot of success against casilla. >> matt: san diego has given the giants all they can handle this year. this is usually a well-contested season series. just ask somebody like matt cain or tim lincecum, who has been around for so much of these. panik with a little chopper. street gets to it. to the bag at first and panik two away. >> eric: the full-swinging bunt, most indefensible play in baseball off the mound and tries to get -- what makes that important, though, is now if

picks is retired, the giants if they're able to stave off the padres, will have 1, 2, 3 coming up in the tenth. >> matt: brandon hicks who will pinch hit in the nine spot. bruce bochy just about out of cards on the bench. >> eric: we've got juan perez and hector sanchez still available. not a lot of offense to pick from right there. >> matt: no. well, nor is it with hicks. he is 0 for his last 21, and just 1 for his last 30. >> eric: might want to ask madison bumgarner to put on his spikes. >> matt: this has just been a weird one, huh? the giants with the fewest infield hits in baseball. today they've got two, and two solo dingers.

san diego offensively challenged come up with what looks like the perfect two-run rally in the seventh. huston street perfect all year. he gives it up here in the ninth. there is no figure in this. 0-2, the count to brandon hicks. as eric mentioned, the middle of the san diego order in the ninth. didn't think we would be going there five, ten minutes ago. >> eric: again, the giants just looking for anything. anything. to turn these last 30 games around.

>> matt: and the 1-2 pitch is swung out and missed. however, mike morse with his 14th of the year has made necessary a bottom of the ninth. giants and padres tied at 3. ♪ ♪ two things you only dreamed would come together. a delicious cheesy quesadilla wrapped around a beefy burrito. the new quesarito from taco bell. [sfx: bong]

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♪ ♪ great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle, see how much you could save. a 3-3 ball game to the last of the ninth we go, and an opportunity for sergio romo, who as of sunday was replaced as giants' closer. three blown saves in his last five opportunity. san francisco announcing a closer committee, six home runs surrendered by romo. and that matches the most he's allowed in his career in a single season. we're not even at the all-star break yet. yeah, it's been a rough little

stretch between june 13th and now. and something that some folks thought started a little earlier. he'll have an opportunity here to keep it tied facing the middle of the san diego order. headley, grandal and goebbert. >> eric: again, with romo, the bottom line has been just hanging the slider. that's what got him in trouble. you know you're going to get a slider, but what has made him so effective over the past few years is an ability to locate. not getting that pitch on the outside corner. tim hudson didn't get it. romo not getting it. >> matt: tim hudson went six today. jean machi, two-thirds of an been. affeldt an inning and a third. and now romo to try to preserve it and send to extra innings. such an important part of the giants' bullpen success in their two world series runs. and the best closers in the game

will tell you, from trevor hoffman on down, there are those ruts, those hiccups you run into. and you mentioned with romo, it's never been a question of blowing it past anybody. it's never been a question of wondering what's coming. it slider, slider, slider. meaning it has to be fine. and he's not in a phase right now where that's been the case. >> eric: well, and as a hitter, when you get into the box against a guy like romo, there is not a lot of intimidation, not a lot of worry. there's no fear at all. it's you know you're going to get a slider. and there have been a lot of successful closers able it to get by with something like that. i remember rod beck. many years with the giants. again, as you mentioned, he's got to be perfect. can't miss.

>> matt: headley pitch into shallow left. morse coming on and can't make the catch. headley on his way to second. the winning run in scoring position with nobody out in the ninth. >> eric: i think mike morse just misjudged it. felt like he had a bead on it. and he wasn't really going hard after it. kind of looks like he was gauging, i'm going to grab it. realized, oh, i'm not going to get there. >> matt: yasmani grandal in a spot where a base hit can win it. he has singled and doubled today. you know, i'm sure somewhere during the course of our

discussion on romo's arsenal, somebody out there in tv land was saying, hey, you two. what about mariana rivera, made hall of fame on a cutter. and hoffman with a change-up. >> eric: those guys also -- rivera could get it up there, as well. and back in the day, again, those guys, even with the change-up and -- that cutter just -- that is in a class by itself, that cutter. you can't compare anybody else, a one-pitch guy to mariano rivera, what he was able to do with that pitch. >> matt: fine play by crawford to, for the moment, preserve the night. that ball gets through and san diego is walking the giants off as winners. >> eric: watch romo, tries to kick it.

coming up the middle. crawford does a great job laying out for that ball, getting over to first base. great first step. he looks back at headley to see if there was a play there. >> matt: bruce bochy brings the infield in. jake goebbert with the intentional at-bat. >> eric: you walk him, you walk nathan and work on conrad. that's what you have to do. >> matt: i don't know that -- >> eric: i'd walk the bases loaded. >> matt: would you? >> eric: i absolutely would. >> matt: a regular buck showalter. >> eric: that's good speed running down. >> matt: duly noted. >> eric: swinging at a slider, which, again, usually a slider to a right-handed hitter is the way. it gets you out of the box a bit

quicker. take my chances. and actually, you've got carlos quinten. >> matt: yeah, he pinch hits in the pitcher spot. and we'll see how they handle cameron maybin now. double, ground ball to shortstop to move the winning run to third. intentional walk. and now maybin, who has grounded into a double play and driven in a run today. >> eric: he had that his last at-bat, sacrifice fly to center field. >> matt: in the air, in the infield. not going to get it done. two gone. >> eric: two at-bats today. one by the padres, one by the giants, with a runner on third, swinging at the very first pitch. and not being able to drive that runner in.

earlier with brendan crawford at third base for the giants. frustrating as a hitter. >> matt: so now carlos quinten, a nonstarter today. quinten batting just .177 at the start of play this afternoon. he has had some success off the bench. 4 for 8 with a couple pinch hit home runs. >> eric: he's going to get nothing but sliders here. >> matt: it is he who stands between sergio romo and taking this to a tenth inning today. 0-1. >> eric: my guess is posey is going to sit on the outside part of the plate and ask for sliders that are about four inches off the plate. quinten has not had a hit off of

romo. 0 for 4 career. >> matt: runner goes unchecked and strike two to quinten. >> eric: that thing backed up. right down the middle of the plate, low. again, posey, he's out. he wants out off the plate. and this is where you find out if romo has it. >> matt: chase headley, winning run at third. two-out last of the ninth. 0-2 to carlos quinten. >> eric: that pitch was up. not out far enough. you can go three or four inches off the plate. quinten is going to probably offer that. he's looking out there.

>> matt: if this game goes to the tenth, the giants have the top of the order. the next 0-2. sergio romo can only work outside to a degree. it's not as though he can just get by trying to skip pitches, because the winning run scurries home if something gets away from buster posey. >> eric: right. got to keep it up in the zone or not bounce it. again, you've got a great catcher behind the plate. you've got to trust him. >> matt: a ball and two strikes. >> eric: he's just getting way too much at the plate. being part of the middle of the plate.