In the Giants-Dodgers rivalry 3-game series, the Dodgers won the first 2 games, but in the 3rd game of the series, the Giants had Tim Lincecum, "The Freak" on the hill. He had one of his best games of the year including striking out his 200th batter, but because of a few controversial calls at 1st base, he got a no decision. The first was Manny being picked off by Bengie Molina, but Gary Darling, the 1st base umpire called him safe. Another one was when Nate Schierholtz was called out but was really safe. In the 9th inning, Darling made the most important missed call, when Lincecum was going for the complete game. Dodgers batter Rafael Furcal grounded a ball to Juan Uribe who clearly threw him out by half a step, but again Darling called him safe, so they went into extra innings. It wouldn't matter though because in the 10th inning, Juan Uribe with Travis Ishikawa on 1st base with one out hit a walk-off home run to win the game 4-2. The benches cleared though when Pablo Sandoval got hit on the shoulder earlier in the game, no one threw any punches.
Juan Uribe's walk-off: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6062729
The panda gets mad: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6060591
Highlights: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6067547
sigh...giants win, but the rockies keep winning!
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