With one quick flick of the bat, Brandon Belt ended an historic filibuster at Nationals Park. Belts 18th-inning blast gave the Giants a gripping 2-1 win over the Washington Nationals on Saturday night in the longest game in postseason history, a 6-hour, 23-minute epic that was the Jordan Zimmermann show for the first three hours and Yusmeiro Petits masterpiece for most of the next three. Zimmermann was one out away from a shutout that would have tied this best-of-five National League Division Series, but he was pulled after a walk of Joe Panik and could only watch as Pablo Sandoval drove in the tying run. Petit would keep the game even with six innings of one-hit, seven-strikeout dominance in extra innings, repeatedly setting a stage that Belt finally jumped on in the 18th. It was the 10th consecutive postseason win for the Giants, who can clinch the series Monday in San Francisco with Madison Bumgarner on the mound.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 14:07:33 +0000
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