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Game 6 Play by Play:

Top of the 1st. 3 up and 3 down for Ventura. Looks sharp. Bottom of the 1st. Peavy looked sharp w/1st 2 batters but gives up a walk to Cain and an single to Hosmer. Cain advances to 3rd on slip and fall by Ishikawa who fielded the single. Runners on 1st and 3rd but gets Butler to ground out. End of inning. Both pitchers get 1K. Score 0-0.

Top of the 2nd. Ventura gets Pablo to fly out but then Pence gets a double out of a sharp grounder down the 1st base line but no one is able to get him in. Belt strikes out and Morse flies deep to the right corner; caught by Aoki. However, the Giants ARE getting the bats on the balls thrown by Ventura. May just be a matter of time before the get to him. 1 RISP LOB.

Bottom of the 2nd. Peavy in BIG TROUBLE already!

Single to Gordon. Single to Perez. Moustakas double scoring Gordon. Infante strikes out. Fielding confusion (unscored error) by Belt on grounder to 1st; Perez did not try to score, Peavy pointed to home for a throw and then Belt missed the tag at 1st. Bases loaded. Single to Aoki scoring Perez. Bases loaded and 1 out. Royals lead 2-0.

BTW, Peavy is NOT supposed to direct the play. He's supposed to run to 1st to take the throw if necessary. Because he didn't do that, he confused Belt and made him check on Perez at 3rd twice. Perez wasn't running but checking twice took too much time and Escobar beat Belt to the bag as a result. Contributing to the confusion was the fact that the infielders were playing IN for a play at the plate. If they had been playing BACK, Belt (nor Peavy) would have thought about throwing to the plate on that play; only to 1st where the out would have been made. Commentators are saying that this muffed play was a turning point in the inning and the game. I agree.

Peavy's DONE after just 1 and 1/3 innings. This must be a WS record for the shortest appearance for a starter. Sometimes it pays to go w/the stats and not your gut. Peavy must have one of the worst Playoff and WS records for a pitcher. Like Kershaw, good during the season but awful in the post season.

Pettit pitching. Single to Cain scores 2 charged to Peavy. Runners on 1st and 3rd. Wild pitch, Cain moves up to 2nd. Hosmer singles scoring Aoki and Cain. Royals lead 6-0. 5 runs charged to Peavy; 1 to Petit. Butler doubles scoring Hosmer. 2 ERs agains Petit. Royals going crazy!!! Then Gordon grounds out to 1st. 2 out. Perez fouls out to 3rd. Inning finally over. Royals lead 7-0.

Petit is really a starter and NOT a reliever. Bochy seldom brings him in w/runners on base to give him a clean start to get into the groove. Always felt that Petit should have started Game 6 because of Peavy's weak post season record. If Petit gives up 2 hits at the top of a clean inning, no one scores immediately off of him and he has a chance to shake it off and close out the inning w/o any damage. No chance to do that in relief when you have to come out sharp. Just too bad Petit had to be put in that position.

Personally, I thought Bochy should have brought Lopez or Affeldt in to relieve Peavy instead to get out of the inning and then bring Petit in at the top of the 3rd w/a clean slate. Just didn't happen that way.

Top of the 3rd. Giants need to mount an amazing comeback or there's going to be a Game 7. Not a good start. Ishikawa strikes out. Ventura walks the next 2 batters quickly. Panik battles Ventura from 1-2 to get a walk the bases loaded but Posey grounds out into a double play. Rally spoiled for Giants. 3 men LOB; 2 RISP. Royals lead 2-0.

Bottom of the 3rd: Who's pitching? Machi??!! Bochy pulling Petit quick in order to save him for Game 7 which will probably be necessary. Machi gets a grounder out from 1st batter but then gives up a ground rule double to Infante on a hanging change up. EVERYONE in Royals lineup ALREADY has a hit. Aoki walks. Then Cain hits ground rule double to center, scoring Infante. Hosmer grounds out. Machi true to recent form. Inning over. Royals lead 8-0.

Top of 4th: Ventura gives up an infield hit to Belt but gets Pablo, Pence and Morse to ground out. Bottom of the 4th: Machi still pitching. Bochy must feel like this game is done and just doesn't want to use the core of the bullpen in the pending loss. Butler flies out to Pence for 1st out. Gordon strikes out. Perez runs out an infield grounder to Pablo; throw got to 1st before Perez but Belt couldn't handle it. Could have been an error on Belt for not holding on to the throw but scorer gave the hit to Perez. Moustakas flies out. End of inning. Royals still lead 8-0.

Top of the 5th: Just 3 more innings before the "3 headed monster" of HDH comes in. Not looking good for the Giants. Need to score now or never. Ishikawa strikes out again. Crawford flies out. Blanco grounds out. 3 up and 3 down. Ventura cruising; no stress. Royals still lead 8-0.

Bottom of the 5th: Machi still pitching. Machi immediately gives up a hit to Infante and gives up a double to Escobar scoring Infante; Infante ran to home even though the 3rd base coach gave him the sign to stop. Aoki grounds out advancing Escobar to 3rd. Crawford throws Cain out on an infield grounder fielded almost near 3rd base; very difficult play given Cain's speed and how far the throw was. 2 out. Hosmer strikes out. Inning over. Another run scored on Machi. Royals lead 9-0.

Top of the 6th: Panik flies out. Posey flies out. Pablo walks. Pence grounds out. No threat. Inning over. Bottom of the 6th: Strickland pitching! Bochy must be conceding this game by using his WORST pitcher in relief. Butler walks. Gordon grounds into double play and Perez grounds out to SS. Not quite 3 up and 3 down but at least no one scored. Hooray!!!! Royals still lead 9-0.

Top of the 7th: Ventura still pitching! Belt flies out. Morse grounds out. Ishikawa walks. Crawford base hit to center. 2 on, 2 out. End of the road for Ventura? He's thrown 99 pitches. Pitching coach out is talking to him. Throws 100th pitch to Blanco who pops out foul. End of inning. That's 7 shut out innings thrown by Ventura, which matches Bumgarner.

Bottom of the 7th: Posey out; Sousac catching for Strickland. Of course! Moustakas hits 6th HR off of Stickland this post season!!! 3 up and down after that.
Royals lead 10-0.

Strickland will probably get sent back down to the minors after his HORRIBLE outing in the playoffs. The Giants gave him a HUGE opportunity coming up from DOUBLE A ball to pitch in the Show, in the Playoffs and in the f*cking World Series and he FAILED miserably. Even if he denies it, this will have to have a major negative impact on his confidence in himself and on the Giants' confidence in him, as well. Hope he's able to turn it around but, if he makes it back to the Show next year, I'm sure what happened to him this year in the Playoffs/WS will nag on him until he's able to learn how to avoid giving up mammoth HRs to left hand hitters.

Top of the 8th: Frasor relieves Ventura. Panik singles. Susac flies out. Pablo singles. 2 on; 1 out. Can we score a run? Pence pops out; infield fly rule. 2 on; 2 out. Belt strikes out. Belt seems to have been striking out a lot in the WS. Will have to check on that. Giants can't even score off of Frasor. Looks like they're done for the night.

Bottom of the 9th: Who's pitching for the Giants now? Vogelsong! Bochy's just using up the bottom of the bullpen to save the rest for tomorrow. 2nd string coming in to field as well. Arias at 3rd; Perez in left and Duffy at SS. Vogie walks 1st batter but strikes out next one. Butler hits into a double play. Inning over. Thank goodness! Royals still lead 10-0.

Top of the 9th: Collins pitching/closing for the Royals. Perez singled but Morse flied out, Duffy struck out and Blanco struck out to end the game.

Royals win 10-0 and tie Series 3-3. Doesn't really matter how many runs the Royals scored. All they needed was 1 because it was a shutout. Oh well . . .

Game 7 coming up! GO GIANTS!!!!