Bochy Earns Win No. 800 in See Saw Battle

It was by no means easy, but with the help of a Conor Gillaspie walk-off double in the bottom of the ninth, one of four go-ahead base knocks, the San Francisco Giants, somehow, someway, pulled out another one-run win got Bruce Bochy his 800th career managerial as manager of the orange and black.

The Giants looked like they were in for an easy win through the first third of the ballgame.

Despite giving up a run in the first inning, Johnny Cueto found his rhythm early, facing one above the minimum through three innings.

Cueto took advantage of the young and overly aggressive Philadelphia batters, inducing a couple one or two pitch outs, which allowed him to keep his pitch count low and get his defense off the field.

While Cueto was cruising, the Phillies' Aaron Nola was all over the place, struggling from the jump while becoming public enemy number one in San Francisco.

The Giants loaded the bases in the first and had the potential to put up a crooked number to get their starter a comfortable lead, but Nola escaped with minimal damage, only allowing one run by way of a Brandon Crawford groundout.

In that first inning, Nola plunked Buster Posey with a 75 MPH curveball, which was by no means intentional, but to the 40,000+ in attendance at AT&T, the young starter may as well have beaned the former MVP with a 100 MPH heater.

Following an easy, breezy 1-2-3 second inning, the San Francisco bats did all but knock him out of the game, charging four more runs to his name in an offensive explosion of a third inning.

One of the four runs in the four-run third inning came when Nola hit Ramiro Peña and Conor Gillaspie in back-to-back at-bats.

With the way the inning was going, there was no logical reason as to why Nola would plunk the Peña and Gillaspie intentionally, and the hit batters spoke to how out of control Nola was while on the mound.

Nonetheless, the San Francisco faithful were not pleased by any means and let the Philadelphia starter hear it.

Things got weird, to say the least, in the fourth inning.

With two outs in the frame, an errant Cueto fastball ran too far inside and struck Maikel Franco, the fourth hit batter on the day.

The Phillies knew it wasn't intentional, and the Giants knew it wasn't intentional; Buster Posey set the target on the inside part of the plate, trying to jam Franco and induce an easy ground out.

Whatever the reason may have been, home plate umpire Doug Eddings was not about to let the game get out of hand and immediately issued a warning to both dugouts.

From that moment, the dynamic of the game completely shifted.

Franco getting hit turned out to be the catalyst the Phillies needed to get back into the ballgame, as the Fightin' Phils would score two with two outs in the fourth, then another two in the fifth to tie up the ballgame at five apiece.

A little part of that may have had to do with the fact that Eddings, from the Franco hit-by-pitch and on, shrunk the strike zone for Cueto, much to Johnny Béisbol's dismay.

After the Phillies had tied up the game, Cueto stared down Eddings during the entire walk back to the dugout.

Cueto departed having gave up six runs in six innings, ending his streak of games with two or less runs at nine.

From the sixth inning on, the ballgame became a back and forth affair, as whenever the Giants scored, the Phillies would immediately match in the following inning.

Unfortunately for Philadelphia, the away team isn't allowed to try and tie up the ballgame after the home team takes a lead after nine innings.

Angel Pagan's had another great day at the plate, racking up four hits in five at-bats, including two doubles, which brought his average on the season up to .297, seconded to only Brandon Belt.

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