SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Giants reliever Javier Lopez jabbed his glove in the direction of the ground ball tumbling back at him here Saturday, but in some corner of his brain, he instantly recalled that the Giants played a shift against the hitter, Arizona's Jake Lamb. So Lopez retracted his glove in the hope his middle infielders would turn a double play.
But as Lopez tracked the bounding ball, he realized that shortstop Brandon Crawford had started moving toward second base rather than in pursuit of the grounder. It looked like the baseball would skip through the infield and the Giants' lead would evaporate.