Pat Borzi provided updates for Sunday's Game 4 between the Giants and the Tigers. For a pitch-by-pitch recap of the game, check out the live game-tracker.
Bot 10th — 11:50 P.M. |Giants Win World Series
Infante suffered a non-displaced fracture of a bone in his left hand that won't require surgery, the Tigers are saying.
Romo strikes out Jackson and pinch-hitter Don Kelly on breaking pitches. Now it's up to the Triple Crown winner, Cabrera, to extend Detroit's season. On 1-1, Cabrera goes fishing for a breaking ball away and misses, 1-2. Takes a pitch, 2-2, fouls off the next. Then Romo freezes him with a fastball for strike three, striking out the side, and the jumping, rolling, hat-throwing celebration begins in the middle of the infield.
Giants win, 4-3, in 10 innings, for their second world championship in three years.
Yankees must have left their bats in Detroit, and the Tigers used them
— David Waldstein (@DavidWaldstein) 29 Oct 12
Top 10th — 11:39 P.M. |Scutaro Drives In Run, Giants Lead 4-3
Marco Scutaro hit a single to drive in Ryan Theriot in the top of the 10th inning to give the Giants the lead.
Affeldt fans Dirks for his fourth consecutive strikeout, and Pagan nearly circumnavigates the outfield before running down Peralta's long fly on the warning track. Did the wind play tricks with it? Manager Bruce Bochy brings in the righthanded Santiago Casilla to face the righthanded-hitting Infante. Affeldt departs with a Tim Lincecum-type
line – one and two-thirds innings, no hits, four strikeouts.
Casilla drills Infante in the left hand with a fastball, crushing the flesh against the knob of the bat. Infante leaves the field in agony. Danny Worth pinch-runs, but Laird forces him at second.
On we go deeper into the night, to the 10th. Worth replaces Infante at second base.
A fired-up Coke, pumping mid-90's fastballs, strikes out Pence, Belt and Blanco, the latter with a slider that a stunned Blanco watched float in at the knees. Coke has faced nine batters in this World Series and struck out them all. Jose who? It's still 3-3 with Dirks, Peralta and Infante due up for Detroit in the bottom of the ninth.
Bot 8th — 11:08 P.M. |Still Tied Heading to the 9th
If I'm Cabrera with a man on first in the eighth, I'm looking for something away to lift into that wind howling out to right. So naturally, Affeldt works Cabrera inside, changing speeds and striking him out with a change. Affeldt buckles Fielder's knees with a sharp-breaking curve before striking him out. And Young strikes out too, on a curve. Great game, huh? On to the ninth.
There's a debate in here whether Leyland will dare bring in struggling closer Jose Valverde. For now, Leyland calls on his most reliable finisher, Phil Coke, for the ninth. Avisail Garcia, who walked as a pinch-hitter in the eighth, stays in the game to play right field as Dirks moves to left. That's significant because Garcia, a 21-year-old rookie, has a great arm.
Dotel is still in for the Tigers in the top of the eighth. After a leadoff walk, first baseman Fielder does Dotel a solid by starting a 3-6-1 double play with Sandoval's ground ball, finished with Dotel applying the tag on Marco Scutaro. Still tied, 3-3.
Cain, who was trying to become the first pitcher since Andy Pettitte in 2009 to win three clinching games in the same postseason, gets a no-decision instead as he gives way to Jeremy Affeldt in the bottom of the eighth.
10:45 P.M. |Chickens Are Safe
Young can be a funny guy when he wants to be. After Game 3, when asked by reporters if there was anything else the Tigers could do to try and win Game 4, he said, "You talking about sacrificing a chicken or something? Nah. We're not going to do anything like that."
That referenced the movie Major League, where the players discussed sacrificing a live chicken before settling for a bucket of KFC.
And Young isn't the first person to bring this up. Last year, two high school players from Texas allegedly sacrificed live chickens on the field to try and change their team's luck. Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson joked about doing it in May after a rash of injuries, leading a Nationals fan to cut off the head of a rubber chicken, saving on poultry and matches.
Still, it's probably not a good idea. Here's a rule of thumb: When it comes to chickens, stick to broiling.
Top 7th — 10:32 P.M. |Scherzer Leaves the Game
San Francisco's Ryan Theriot grounds out on a hit-and-run in the seventh, with Gregor Blanco taking second. Max Scherzer is done after 90 pitches, and Jim Leyland goes batter by batter with the bullpen. The lefty Drew Smyly retires Brandon Crawford on a fly ball. And in a matchup of former Mets, the well-traveled right-hander Octavio Dotel draws an inning-ending grounder from Angel Pagan.
Bot 6th — 10:14 P.M. |Tigers' Young Homers; Game Tied, 3-3
Possible World Series most valuable players? Pablo Sandoval, with his three homers in Game 1 and 8-for-13 hitting (.615), stands as the clubhouse leader. But Tim Lincecum, with his two hitless relief appearances covering four and two-thirds innings, deserves consideration. Hard to overlook someone who struck out 8 of the 16 batters he faced.
But hold on – Delmon Young hits one out to right field in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game, 3-3. That's his third homer this postseason, and the first against a team that doesn't wear pinstripes. Andy Dirks singles, and the crowd shrieks on Jhonny Peralta's long fly to left until Gregor Blanco runs it down near the wall.
Top 6th ‚ 9:59 P.M. |Posey Homers; Giants Lead, 3-2
Until last night, when he went 0 for 4, Buster Posey had a hit in all seven career World Series games he had played. Thanks to his two-run homer to left in the sixth, he now has a hit in eight of nine.
Giants back in front, 3-2, and Comerica grows quiet as we head to the bottom of the sixth.
Giants will see your MVP candidate, and raise him with theirs.
— John Branch (@JohnBranchNYT) 29 Oct 12
Bot 5th — 9:55 P.M. |Tigers Waste an Opportunity
Laird breaks a cardinal rule trying to sacrifice in the fifth: Hold the bat at the top of the strike zone and don't offer at any pitch higher, because it's not a strike and you'll probably pop it up anyway. Instead, Laird pokes a line drive that Belt snags with a leap. Omar Infante, the runner, never advances, and shortstop Brandon Crawford throws out Berry on a nifty charging barehand play (it caromed off Cain) for the final out.
Top 5th — 9:43 P.M. |Scherzer Still Strong
With light rain falling at Comerica, Scherzer retires the Giants in order in the top of the fifth to maintain the 2-1 lead, picking up his sixth strikeout along the way.
the rain looks worse on TV than it is in person.
— David Waldstein (@DavidWaldstein) 29 Oct 12
Mid 4th — 9:37 P.M. |Verlander Cool on Camera
Seeing Justin Verlander chatting with Joe and Tim from the dugout in the fourth reminds me: If the Tigers miss the playoffs next year, don't be surprised to see Verlander on the Fox or ESPN sets as a guest commentator. This postseason has been one big audition for him. Now he goes back to rooting for himself – he'll start Game 5 if the Tigers can hold or extend this 2-1 lead.
There appears to be no truth to the rumor that the wind that helped push Cabrera's ball over the right field fence came from Fielder huffing and puffing in the on-deck circle.
Scherzer finishes off the fourth with a strike-em-out, throw-em-out double play — Laird nails Brandon Belt at second as Blanco fans.
Wind outside Comerica is fierce. On the field it's not so bad but once a ball like Cabrera's, gets up into jet stream it will carry to right
— David Waldstein (@DavidWaldstein) 29 Oct 12
Bot 3rd— 9:16 P.M. |Cabrera Homers, Tigers Lead 2-1
Near-mayhem in the Tigers third. As Austin Jackson (walk) breaks for second with one out, Berry inexplicably lays down a bunt. Third baseman Sandoval fields the ball as pitcher Matt Cain hurdles him. The throw is low, Belt digs it out of the dirt with a deft sweep of the glove, then nearly cuts down the wide-turning Jackson diving back to second.
After all that, Cabrera picks out a changeup and homers to right field for his first extra-base hit of the series. The 2-1 lead is the first by the Tigers since Game 4 of the A.L.C.S. against the Yankees.
Top 3rd — 9:07 P.M. |Scherzer Regains Control
He does; Scherzer mixes in two changeups among five pitches to Brandon Crawford, who beats out an infield hit to short. With two out Scherzer throws three consecutive changeups to Sandoval, who pulls the third for a single to right — Sandoval's 24th hit this postseason, one short of the major-league record shared by Marquis Grissom of Atlanta (1995), Darin Erstad of the Angels (2002) and David Freese of the Cardinals (last year). The Giants don't score, though, as Posey flies out.
By the way: We're no longer hearing the between-innings chatter from the booth. Rats.
Bot 2nd — 8:53 P.M. |Tigers Waste Opportunity
Tigers waste leadoff single by Delmon Young in the second. The Giants seem to be sitting fastball on Scherzer early in the count; we'll see if he switches things up in the top of the third.
Top 2nd— 8:51 P.M. |Giants Score First, Lead 1-0
Scherzer, who averaged 11.1 strikeouts per nine innings this year to lead the A.L., fans Buster Posey looking leading off the second, his third strikeout in four batters. But Hunter Pence doubles to left-center and Brandon Belt follows with a run-scoring triple to right, and suddenly the Tigers are behind again, 1-0. Since the Giants are 9-1 this postseason when scoring first, this is a whole bunch of not good for the home team.
Detroit manager Jim Leyland plays the infield in on Gregor Blanco to cut off the second run, and for the second straight night gets away with it as Blanco grounds right to second baseman Omar Infante. Tigers come out of it trailing only 1-0.
Bot 1st — 8:36 P.M. |Detroit's Big Bats Still Quiet
Quintin Berry, who hit into a double play and struck out badly to strand five runners in Game 3, hooks a ball deep down the right field line that lands foul by about three inches – a good call by umpire Fieldin Culbreth, but close enough that right fielder Hunter Pence chases it down and plays it like a fair ball.
Berry grounds out and Miguel Cabrera walks, but Matt Cain strikes out Prince Fielder. Detroit's bookend bombers, Cabrera and Fielder, are 3-for-20 in the series.
We 're underway. Max Scherzer, who finished second to Justin Verlander in the A.L. in strikeouts, fanned Angel Pagan and Pablo Sandoval while retiring the side in order. The crowd is into it, and we'll see what the Tigers can do.
Pregame — 8:20 P.M. |Chilly Weather in Detroit
It's so cold out that about 100 of us have chosen to set up in the press room deep within the stadium rather than brave the open-air auxiliary press box in the left field stands. Can you blame us? It's 44 degrees outside and feels like 37 with the wind chill. Pity the team that falls behind this night; 2-0 might seem like 12-0.
There's another plus to being in here: We get the Fox TV audio pumped in, and during commercial breaks we're hearing Joe Buck and Tim McCarver communicating with the truck and among themselves. Wonder how long it will take until Fox figures it out and cuts us off?
Pregame — 8:12 P.M. |Our National Anthem
Since it's an MLB rule that the anthem singer must be from a Fox TV show, I nominate Lisa Simpson on her sax if we go to Game 5.
— Tyler Kepner (@TylerKepner) 29 Oct 12
Pregame — 7:35 P.M. |Getting Ready for the First Pitch
Hi folks, Pat Borzi here at Comerica Park for Game 4 of the World Series. Detroit is not in the path of Hurricane Sandy – for those of you who are, please be smart and safe – but it's still plenty windy here, much more than it was for Game 3.
The temperature had fallen to 45 degrees when I last checked, as cold as it got in the late innings last night. The wind started picking up by the time I left the field about 90 minutes before first pitch. Even before that, some players pulled out their best cold-weather gear. One of the Giants took batting practice in a hood that covered so much of his face I couldn't tell who he was. (Gregor Blanco, was that you?)
If World Series history holds, the Tigers will go down hard tonight. Twenty of the 23 teams to go up three games to none in the World Series finished off the sweep, and the other three closed it out in Game 5. And already, there's a snag for the Tigers. Catcher Alex Avila is a late scratch with a bruised right forearm, the remnants of a foul tip from Game 1. Gerald Laird, 1-for-16 in the Series, draws the start.
I prattled on too long last night about the national anthem singer, so I'll just tell you that tonight it's Demi Lovato, the X Factor judge reprising her turn from last year's World Series Game 5.
So excited to sing the National Anthem at game 4 of the World Series tonight!!!!!
— demetria lovato (@ddlovato) 28 Oct 12
If the Tigers win, Aretha Franklin performs it tomorrow night.
By the way: The last team to be shut out three straight times in the World Series was the 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers, by the Baltimore Orioles. Here's the most incredible detail of that: Games 3 and 4, which both ended 1-0, took one hour 55 minutes and one hour 45 minutes, respectively. We'll be lucky to be through six innings tonight in that time. And Game 2, which Baltimore won 6-0 behind Jim Palmer's shutout, marked the final appearance of Sandy Koufax, who retired after the season.
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