Recap: San Diego vs. San Francisco
Sports Network | September 14, 2008
San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - Omar Vizquel knocked in two runs and Pablo Sandoval scored the deciding run in the 10th inning as San Francisco topped San Diego, 8-6, in the finale of a four-game set.
Travis Ishikawa collected three hits, scored twice and drove in a run for the Giants, who took three of four in the series. Eugenio Velez and Scott McClain each had two hits, an RBI, and a run scored.
Sergio Romo (2-1) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win. Brian Wilson got the final three outs for his 39th save. Starter Barry Zito was rocked for eight hits and six runs -- five earned -- over 4 2/3 innings.
Edgar Gonzalez finished 3-for-5 with two RBI for the Padres, who have dropped three in a row and five of six. Dirk Hayhurst (0-2) took the loss, charged with two hits and two runs without recording an out. Cha Seung Baek lasted just two innings, giving up a run on two hits, before leaving the game with a strained right triceps.
San Francisco pushed across the deciding runs in the 10th. Facing Hayhurst, Sandoval doubled and was followed by Ishikawa's single. Aaron Rowand walked, but ball four was a wild pitch that allowed Sandoval to cross the plate. Scott Patterson came on and fanned the next two batters before walking Vizquel and pinch-hitter Rich Aurilia to force in a run to make it 8-6.
Wilson allowed a two-out Edgar Gonzalez single in the bottom half but closed out the game by retiring Brian Giles on a grounder to first.
Ishikawa's first-inning RBI single gave the Giants a 1-0 lead, but the Padres struck back with four in the second.
San Diego loaded the bases on singles from Adrian Gonzalez and Chase Headley sandwiched around a walk to Kevin Kouzmanoff. Nick Hundley's infield single scored Gonzalez and moved the runners up, then a Luis Rodriguez sacrifice fly made it 2-1. Pinch-hitter Josh Bard walked, then two batters later an Edgar Gonzalez single brought in two.
A Velez RBI groundout cut the Giants' deficit to 4-2 in the fourth, but the Padres came back with two in the home fourth on a Will Venable RBI single and a fielder's choice RBI by Giles.
San Francisco scored four times to tie the game in the sixth on a run-scoring single by McClain, a two-run base hit by Vizquel and a Dave Roberts sacrifice fly.
The Padres squandered a golden chance to forge ahead in the eighth, as Adrian Gonzalez struck out with the bases loaded.
The Giants won 13 of the 18 meetings in 2008...San Diego used nine pitchers and San Francisco sent seven men to the hill.
