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Estevez relishes facing baseball's best bats

Estevez (1-2, 5.28 ERA) entered Sunday having held opponents to a .211 batting average with 15 strikeouts in 15 1/3 innings and no inherited runners scoring. The identities of those he has faced bring a smile to his face.

"Oh, David Ortiz -- that was nice," said Estevez, a Dominican Republic native who had five family members with him on the field before Sunday's game with the Giants. "I went fastball up and in, fly ball to third.

"Yasiel Puig, I struck him out. I faced [Paul] Goldschmidt and he's 1-for-2, double down the line and a broken-bat fly ball to second.