The good news is that the Giants managed to hang in there against Mat Latos, despite the home plate umpire doing his best to screw the Giants. Latos, who by the way may be a jerk, but no doubt is legit. He is going to be a big pain in the ass for the Giants in the years to come. This season, against the Giants, he has a 0.96 ERA. in four starts and that includes today's game.
Back to the home plate umpire. I'm not sure if he is from San Diego but he may of called the worst game I've seen all season.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, he called out Andres Torres on a third strike that was so far off the plate. It had to be at least a foot outside. If Torres would have been hitting left-handed it would of hit him. As you can see from the screenshot of my MLB app from my iPhone that actually none of the strikes were actually strikes.
Either way, the Giants overcame the questionable calls and won the game with his legs. After catching eleven innings, Buster Posey got a lead off double in the bottom of the 11th and then Pablo Sandoval got his second intentional walk of the game. Then Juan Uribe came up and hit a single that allowed the hustling Posey to score from second. GAME OVER!!
