Belt truly distinguished himself with his expertise at first base. With the bases loaded and one out in the fifth inning, he deftly backhanded Jay Bruce's grounder and made a quick, accurate throw home for a forceout. Joey Votto coaxed a bases-loaded walk from Javier Lopez to force in a run, but that was all the scoring Cincinnati produced in that inning. Belt thus forestalled a more fruitful inning for the Reds.
"He surprised all of us by [throwing] home," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.