Rangers recap: Giants ruin Hamels debut with late surge

ARLINGTON The San Francisco Giants rallied late, scoring three runs in the eighth to tie it before hitting two slow homers in the 11th to beat the Texas Rangers 9-7 Saturday night at Globe Life Park.

Pitching: Cole Hamels retired the first six batters before running into trouble in the third. The Giants scored three runs, including a leadoff homer by Brandon Belt. Brandon Crawford and Joe Panik followed with doubles and Matt Duffy singled to drive in the go-ahead run. Hamels regrouped and face the minimum over the next three innings, courtesy of double play in the fourth and two nifty defensive plays by second baseman Rougned Odor. Buster Posey led off the seventh with a homer and two more batters reached before pitching coach Mike Maddux visited Hamels on the mound. Hamels forced Crawford into a 4-6-3 inning-ending double play to end the inning. Hamels left with two outs after a double from Panik in the eighth. Tanner Scheppers took over and immediately gave up a run-scoring double to the right corner to Duffy. Scheppers faced three batters and allowed two doubles and a single as the Giants rallied to it at 7-7. Left-hander Jake Diekman replaced Scheppers and struck out pinch-hitter Gregor Blanco to end the inning. Hamels was charged for five earned runs on eight hits and a walk in 7 2/3 innings. He struck out six.

Shawn Tolleson pitched a perfect ninth and Sam Dyson, in his first appearance for the Rangers, worked around a leadoff single by Angel Pagan with three groundball outs. He got Posey to ground out to second, stranding Pagan at third. The Giants took a 9-7 lead in the 11th on solo homers by Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt. Pence, who graduated from Arlington High School and attended UT-Arlington, led off the inning with a homer off Dyson. With one out, Sam Freeman gave up a homer to Belt to make it 9-7.

Hitting: Mitch Moreland’s two-run double down the right-field line gave Texas 2-0 lead in the first. After falling behind 3-2, Texas tied it with a run in the fourth. Shin-Soo Choo walked with one out and scored from third on Bobby Wilson’s single to left. It was Wilson’s first hit since being traded from the Marlins to the Rangers on Friday. Elvis Andrus followed Choo’s walk with a single and was at third when he was picked off by Giants’ catcher Hector Sanchez. Delino DeShields flew out to end the inning. In the fifth, Prince fielder doubled but was stranded wen Adrian Beltre and Moreland popped and grounded out. In the seventh, Fielder doubled again on a shallow blooper to center field with no outs. Beltre followed with a broken-bat single and Moreland’s sacrifice fly scored Fielder to make it 6-4. The Giants’ bullpen retired 12 consecutive batters between the seventh and 11th innings. In the 11th, pinch-hitter Adam Rosales, Leonys Martin were retired before Odor singled to right. Fielder struck out looking on a breaking ball Santiago Casilla to end the game.

Notable: Fielder collected his major league-leading 41st multi-hit game ... Wilson collected his first multi-RBI game since Aug. 31, 2012 ... Belt homered twice in a game for the first time since 2011.

This story was originally published August 1, 2015 at 10:57 PM with the headline "Rangers recap: Giants ruin Hamels debut with late surge."