starting a double play. he has handled a coming up comebackers. he has struck out five. he's walked only one. and he's allowed no runs on two hits. now retired 11 straight. here is alex gordon, 0 for 2. in at the knees. strike one. >> harold: tom, i said we spend a lot of time around pitchers p john smoltz and al leiter. the big guys. they say you can't define a pitch count because everybody's body type and what they can do is different. you can't put a pitch on this guy. >> joe: or in innings limited, tom said, they are piling up and you wouldn't know it. >> tom: no. really, the pitch count itself is a nonissue because he is so aggressive. he came into this game 70% strikes in the postseason and that is just crazy good.

>> joe: here is pitch number 100. he has one out in the seventh. belt. now two out in the seventh. 12th straight retired by the giant left-hander. tonight's telecast is sponsored by bank of america. the official bank of major league baseball. by t-mobile. and by budweiser, the official beer of major league baseball. here is to budweiser. here's to baseball. here is salvador perez, 0 for 2. and just 4 out of 36 in the postseason. strike one. if bruce bochy wants to go to the bull pen, the giants may not

have the flash that the royals have out of their pen, but they have effective guys, really no matter where you look. >> harold: this might be one of those games to give lincecum some work too. he hasn't pitched in a if you're going to go there, it may not be a bad time to maybe give him an opportunity. knowing you need him later. >> joe: here is the 1-1. good rip. strike two. >> tom: i was thinking the same thing. you don't want to get him into a high leverage situation for the first time. 7-0. maybe bumgarner gets through this and the eighth. maybe you give him three outs. have him feel the ball in his hands and have him get on the mound and work out and pump some runs and you have him later in the series. >> harold: i think madison is saying, "i'm going the distance. forget that." >> joe: here is the 1-2. that is hammered into left. back near the wall. it is gone! the royals are on the board. it's 7-1.

that's his first of the postseason. >> harold: you talked about the layoff would be good for salvador. you can clearly see he got to a cutter in on his hands that he wasn't able to reach in the last week and a half. >> joe: now a strike to infante. >> harold: watch this ball start to cut back over the plate and he hammers it out front. >> joe: first run in 32 2/3 innings on the road.

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perez out looking. one away. >> harold: you look at bumgarner coming out and this gives us an indication he is probably going to be finished. big boy, we got a long way to go still. >> joe: 106 pitches over his seven innings. and the team finally got to him in the world series. 21 straight scoreless to begin his world series pitching career. >> harold: i guess if you've going to give it up, give it up on a home run. not a little blooper or a broken bat. homer. >> joe: quick and painless. ball one. down and away to crawford who is 0 for 2. >> harold: i think as far as the pitching, tom, you see lopez up. they are back in their normal routine. >> tim: makes it easier for a manager to cover six outs than

nine or twelve. every time this postseason, five starts, he's given bruce bochy at least seven innings. curt schilling is the only pitcher in postseason to have four seven-inning starts in one postseason back in 2001, of course. he had six of them. >> joe: here is the 1-1 with one out, nobody on. we came on the air, tom, talking about the importance of this game for the giants with bumgarner on the mound and they are on their way to a victory. >> howie:. >> harold: i thought it was more important for the giants to win because of bumgarner. when the giants beat kershaw. >> joe: into left field. a base hit. it's nicely played by gordon in left and that is why the former third baseman wins gold glove waers out there. what a play. >> harold: that is tremendous. look how he scoops this ball and gets back to his feet to make a

throw like he is throwing to first base. that was textbook. better than textbook because not a lot of people are able to make this play. >> joe: especially left fielders in the game today. sometimes they put the guy who can't run out in left but gordon can do it all. >> tom: detail sveum telling me he can impact the game in left field. very few can do that. >> joe: the batter now is blanco. right off the outside corner. alex gordon in left has 62 assists since 2011. that's 16 more than anybody else in the game, because he'll charge the ball like he is still on the infield, come up gunning. he has got a great arm. that misses. one ball, one strike. >> harold: what is amazing he's not a plus runner. >> tom: pretty much an average runner but the jump on the ball

and the routes he takes to get there, nobody better. >> harold: you talk a lot about rusty kuntz. the outfield coach. working with these guys tirelessly. i speak from personal experience when i was in seattle with ken griffey jr. and jay buhner were young outfielders and rusty worked those guys into being gold glove outfielders. just his method of work every day. >> joe: popped up, foul territory. moustakas. two out. >> tom: joe, getting back to what i said about kershaw. you beat the other team's ace in game one you flip the entire series. this is unbelievable to me. you're getting experience on the mound for the giants. to take nothing away. four pitchers, four games, three pitchers, four games under .500. never happened before in the

world series. >> joe: and that is how they will line up games two through four as vogelsong on the left and hudson on the right. we already heard from jake peavy who was picked up from the red sox mid season and really turned his year around. one on, two out. panik flies one into center for cain. bottom of the eighth inning rolls in. time has not run out on the royals. 9-1-2 coming up as they trail by six.

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only one. gave up his first world series run in his third start on a home bun by salvador perez in the seventh. >> harold: i know it's a 7-1 game but i think this is an important at-bat for moustakas as we go through the series because they are going to bring lopez in to get him out. >> joe: he is 1 for 2 tonight. took a strike. now a ball. >> harold: in different situations where the game is tighter. this is the matchup you're going to get, lopez against moustakas and possibly hosmer. he is that left-handed specialist. >> joe: that's down. ball two. you saw strickland, the rookie right-hander, getting ready, with escobar on deck. you'd like to get hunter strickland into a game working on things after allowing a lot of home runs this postseason to left-handed batters. that is strike two.

two balls, two strikes. they are wondering if strickland has been tipping his pitches. >> tom: a good point, joe. when i thought about lincecum, when i re-thought about it, i should say, doesn't really make sense to run him into the game when you have the lead. >> joe: here is one up the middle. catch by lopez. one away. frasor getting loose in the royals bull pen. great tom watson on the left, golf hall of famer. eric stonestreet of "modern family." and a royal super fan flown over here the first two games in kansas city. i can vouch that stonestreet and rudd were here in the middle part of the year when the royals were really struggling. it's not just the let's show up

because i'm from kansas city and be on tv. rudd and stonestreet are die-hard fans of both the royals and the chiefs. the chiefs are at home this upcoming sunday with a date against the rams. >> harold: i'm laughing because stonestreet was in the booth up here visiting with you. >> joe: here is a line drive into center. escobar on for the first time tonight. >> harold: nice piece of hitting and taking a ball right back up the middle. stays with him the whole way. this is going to be a great view. just taking it right back where he threw it from. to finish my point about stonestreet real quick. i kept looking him, i know him from somewhere! where do i know him from? and now i know! >> joe: the hit "modern family." here is aoki. last hitter for lopez with the

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>> joe: the deepest bench in baseball. how about the lineup fox sports 1 is rolling out for postgame coverage tonight in erin andrews, big papi and kapler and nick swisher. the best postgame coverage anywhere after this game on fox sports 1. ninth inning rolls in. 7-1 game. jason frasor right-hander who

takes over. so we will, barring the miraculous go through game one without seeing herrera, davis and holland, and they will be waiting in the wings for game two tomorrow night. a matchup of peavy and ventura. posey has hit the ball hard all night but he is 1 for 4. by the way, it's dropped 12 degrees from 64 to 52 as we play here in the ninth. >> harold: the breeze is coming in here too. looking to game two, i think tom touched on the fact that bumgarner is really the only pitcher that is going deep in the postseason. we are going to see a bull pen game tomorrow. >> joe: reaching for it. good pitch. a couple of hops and moustakas has it. one out. >> tom: the thing about bumgarner. this crowd was electric when the game started. they not only put the crowd out of the game but took the royals

bull pen out of the game. that's the way to beat kansas city. jump on top early and put it in the hands of your ace. >> harold: even last inning you get a double play ball to end the half-inning for you and it shuts down the running game. everything happens the giants way tonight because he gave them a chance and their offense took off early. 3-0 and you got him on the mound, it's looking pretty good for the rest of the night. >> joe: here is sandoval. the kid, ventura, will get the ball tomorrow night in game two for the royals and kansas city down one game to nothing. for more on the hard throwing right-hander here is kenny rosen shawl. >> ken: you talk to the royals people about ventura they say he is fearless. the bigger the game in the minor league the better he pitched. one thing that helped pitching back in the rotation under less pressure. >> joe: one off the glove of moustak moustakas. sandoval on again, third time in this game. go ahead. >> ken: he was so good in spring

training light up radar gonzalez that bill fisher, the pitching adviser for the royals, predicted he would win as many games as james shields and exactly what happened. both won 14 games and ventura had a slightly better e.r.a. >> joe: a base hit for sandoval. they are going to need, the royals are, all of that from ventura against jake peavy tomorrow night on the air at 7:30 eastern here on fox. here is hunter pence. what a night he's had. two-run shot, a double, and a walk. retired only once. ball one, outside, from frasor. >> tom: you saw danny duffy's electric arm out of the pen. he went to spring training competing for that fifth spot. he told me, take a look at ventura, after looking at him, i had no shot to win that spot. >> joe: that's in for strike to

pence. >> harold: the beauty of baseball. i love when a guy bursts on the scene and has the perfect nick nim and next thing you know, ace ventura and has a hundred-mile-an-hour fastball. what do you want to do? tune in and watch him. here he is throwing game two in the world series. >> joe: one ball, one strike. one on, one out. good heat from the former texas rangers. strike two. >> tom: threw it by him at 92. i feel a little bit sorry for jason frasor. everybody else coming out of there throwing 94 and above. good breaking ball and enough of a fastball certainly to get by a good fastball hitter. >> joe: james was scoring on that ball hit by san doudovalsa. no three-hit game for sandoval

but he's on base for the third time. count evens at 2-2. strickland getting ready for the bottom of the ninth. >> harold: sometimes when the game is ugly and you take a ball like that, you're not going to get a hit. tight game. >> joe: strickland can't wait to get back out there, having allowed four home runs this postseason. he will get his chance in the bottom of the ninth. it won't be easy. he has the 3, 4, and 5 hitters to challenge for the young right-hander who can light up a radar gun. >> harold: one of the things they want to try to do is get him to face more right-handers and i think the challenge is facing hosmer, the lefty, because that is who hurting him with the long ball this postseason.

>> joe: here is the 3-2. that will put two on. a walk from frasor. pence is on base for the fourth time in this game. nice of ventura and peavy to stand there for that long as they pound the ball into the glove. >> tom: the glove is broken in now. >> joe: smile, smile from ventura. kind of that glare from jake peavy, the veteran right-hander. sandov sandoval talking it over at second. not many have left. they waited a long time for the world series to come back to kansas city and they are going to watch the whole thing. >> harold: this is happening

right here. the whole town, the whole area. >> joe: the giants, who have won eight straight postseason series, dating back to 2010, are on the way to handing the royals their first loss of this postseason after setting a big league record, winning the first eight. that is to the shortstop escobar. out at second as they just got pence. two down. >> harold: i thought that was -- that's a real difficult play because they are in the shift. he has to run. to flip it underhand, i was thinking he is going to have trouble with that. part of the reason he is flipping underhand infante is on the run from where he was at positioned over in the shift

position at second base. so ground ball really took and made it a difficult play, a routine play become difficult. >> joe: here's morse. first and third. two out. that's strike one. if you're bruce bochy or ned yost, you want to get strickland some work, you also don't mind getting some of the other guys into the ball game because you've had the long layoff. game five of the nlcs was on thursday. a game tomorrow and then another off day, a travel day before friday, saturday, and sunday in san francisco. that is a strike and it's 0-2.