The Texas Rangers scored nine runs while the San Francisco Giants scored three runs.
The Rangers have identified that Andrew Heaney is good for about 80 pitches per outing, even when he’s on. Tonight, he clearly wasn’t on so Bruce Bochy bailed on the lefty pretty quickly just four outs into his outing, leaving with the bases loaded with an out in the bottom of the 2nd in a 1-1 game.
Whether it was feeling a little urgency to make the swift decisions to win a ballgame, or Bochy and Mike Maddux just realizing that the bullpen was rested enough to carry the load, whatever the case may be, the moved paid off as Grant Anderson wiggled out of the bases loaded jam with the score still even and a combination of Anderson (2 2⁄3), Chris Stratton (3), Josh Sborz (1), and Brock Burke (1) went 7 2⁄3 innings with only a couple of solo home runs blemishing the ‘pen’s evening.