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 The veteran right-hander convinced San Francisco manager Bruce
Bochy that he could continue despite a two-hour, 42-minute delay. He
backed up that promise, as he lasted six innings and did not give up
an earned run to lead the Giants to an 8-2 victory over the Detroit
Tigers on Friday night at Comerica Park.
Peavy, who is 4-4 since being acquired from Boston on July 26,
allowed two unearned runs and did not walk a batter. He pitched
three innings after the delay.
"He was so adamant that he was good to go," Bochy said. "I think it
would have crushed him not to go back out there."
Peavy stayed loose with the aid of the training staff. He gave up
two hits after he returned to the mound, but a double play helped
him escape that inning. Two of his three strikeouts came in the
sixth.
"You just listen to your body. I felt good," Peavy said. "Those
(first) three innings weren't crazy high stress. I did throw a lot
of pitches to Victor Martinez in that one at-bat (on the double
play), but tonight was a big one. Every game is big, we know that.
To have a lead, to have a game plan set in stone, I didn't want that
to go for naught."
Bochy did not want a 6-0 lead, which the Giants held before the
delay, to go by the wayside. He even stood outside the dugout,
impatiently waiting for the grounds crew to start getting the field
ready again.
"I was (anxious)," he said. "At some point, you quit looking at the
radar and you look up in the sky and it stopped raining. So sure, I
was trying to get things going. It's probably human nature for any
manager. You see a window and you have a lead. You want this thing
to keep going."
Third baseman Pablo Sandoval hit a solo home run and drove in two
runs for the Giants (77-64), who remained two games behind the Los
Angeles Dodgers in the National League West Division. Left fielder
Gregor Blanco had two extra-base hits, scored twice and knocked in a
run. Every player in the Giants' starting lineup had at least one
hit.
San Francisco right fielder Hunter Pence extended his hitting streak
to 17 games with a third-inning single. It's the longest streak for
the Giants this season and the longest active streak in the majors.
Tigers starter Rick Porcello (15-10) gave up six runs (five earned)
and 10 hits in three innings. Second baseman Ian Kinsler had two
hits and an RBI.
Detroit (77-64) fell two games behind Kansas City, which defeated
the New York Yankees 1-0 on Friday, in the American League Central.
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"Everybody saw the game. Everything I threw up there got
whacked," Porcello said. "Just a tough night. You tip your hat to
them, they swung the bats well. It was a combination of some good
pitches that got hit and some bad pitches that got hit. I couldn't
come up with an answer for it."
Porcello was hit on the right heel by Giants shortstop Brandon
Crawford's bases-loaded single in the third inning, but X-rays were
negative.
Tigers manager Brad Ausmus just wished the rain didn't go away.
"There were discussions because the radar looked so bad, but
ultimately it was in the umpires' hands," he said. "The radar looked
really bad there for a while and it kind of cleared up. When we took
the field, there were still concerns that we'd get rain in 45
minutes, but that seemed to dissipate."
NOTES: Giants OF Gregor Blanco had his long errorless streak
extended by a scoring change, then it ended once again. Blanco was
charged with an error at Colorado on Wednesday while trying to catch
Ben Paulsen's foul ball. With the error subtracted, Blanco entered
the game with 306 consecutive errorless games, longest among
National League outfielders. It was snapped Friday when he misplayed
Bryan Holaday's fly ball in the fifth inning. ... The Giants were
8-9 against American League teams and the Tigers were 11-6 in
interleague games. ... Giants OF Michael Morse returned to San
Francisco to receive a cortisone shot for an oblique strain that
kept him out of the Rockies' series. Manager Bruce Bochy hopes Morse
can return during next week's homestand. ... Detroit C Alex Avila
did not start for the third straight game because of concussion-like
symptoms. ... Tigers RHP Joakim Soria, who has been on the disabled
list since Aug. 10 with an oblique strain, threw 39 pain-free
pitches during a bullpen session.
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