Giants 1, Phillies 0
SAN FRANCISCO -- Cliff Lee and Matt Cain staged a one of baseball's best pitchers' duels in years, with the Giants pulling out a 1-0, 11-inning victory over the Phillies on Melky Cabrera's RBI single.
Cain and Lee were each dominant. Lee became the first big league pitcher since 2005 to pitch 10 scoreless innings. No Phillies starter had recorded an out beyond the ninth inning since 1993. Cain pitched nine scoreless innings for a second game in a row.
The game was in the hands of the bullpens when Brandon Belt started the winning rally with a broken-bat single with one out in the 11th. Angel Pagan then reached on an error by third baseman Ty Wigginton, who couldn't hold his grounder.
Cabrera's line drive into right center drove in Belt with the winning run.
Clay Hensley, who helped the Giants escape a jam with a runner at third in the top of the 11th, picked up the victory.
Both starters cruised for the entire night. The Giants had only two runners get into scoring position against Lee, none after the fifth inning. They put the leadoff man on in the ninth and 10th innings, but both times hit into double plays. The Giants hit into four double plays.
The Phillies had only two runners in scoring position against Cain, none after the fifth. Cain retired the final 13 batters he faced he faced. In Cain's previous outing he pitched a one-hit shutout, facing just 28 batters.
Cain retired the first seven Philadelphia hitters before Freddy Galvis lined a clean single up the middle.
Cain gave up a hit and a walk in the fifth, but he got out of it with a double play.
Lee gave up hits to the first two hitters of the game, but he bounced back quickly, escaping with a flyout and a double play. Lee then retired the next seven hitters, including a run of four consecutive strikeouts.
Pablo Sandoval singled in the fourth to extend his hitting streak to 12 games, tied with Minnesota's Josh Willingham for the longest active streak in the young season. Sandoval was the sixth player in San Francisco history to hit in at least 12 straight games to start a season.
Sandoval was then erased when Buster Posey, who had six hits in his previous two games, grounded into a second double play of the night.
In the fifth, the Giants wasted a leadoff double by Brett Pill. They couldn't even move Pill to third, much less drive him in.
NOTES: Giants closer Brian Wilson will undergo Tommy John surgery on Thursday in Pensacola, Fla. The Giants had expected this would be the outcome when Wilson was sent to see Dr. James Andrews. Wilson underwent the same surgery while he was in college in 2003. . . . The Giants began the day leading the majors with 16 errors. . . . Placido Polanco, who was hitting .179, got the day off. Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said Polanco has started slow because he was hurt in spring training. He also said Polanco's swing isn't balanced right now.
