http://0rz.tw/lige1 Giants can't give All-Star Vogelsong a win By Chris Haft / MLB.com | 7/3/2011 7:39 PM ET DETROIT -- As Aaron Rowand's eighth-inning line drive darted straight and true toward the left-center-field gap, he sensed he had delivered an extra-base hit. "I put my head down and started running," he said. But Rowand's diligence proved to be wasted energy, which was the case all too often for the Giants in their 6-3 Interleague loss Sunday to the Detroit Tigers. Ryan Raburn, who was switched to left field as the eighth inning began, sped toward the ball and flung himself headlong for it. He caught the ball at seemingly the last possible instant, before it would have kissed the grass or darted past him. With two Giants on base, two outs and Detroit clinging to a 4-3 lead, Raburn likely saved the game for the Tigers, who pulled away with a pair of runs in their half of the eighth. "I didn't know he caught it until I heard the crowd react," Rowand said. "I was running for three. He made a great play." The defeat wasn't a disaster for the Giants, who finished 4-3 on their two-city trip. But they legitimately could have entertained thoughts of posting anywhere from a 5-2 mark to 7-0 on this journey, since All-Star closer Brian Wilson blew save opportunities in the final two games at Chicago. "It was a decent trip," Bochy said. "Are we satisfied? No. We lost a couple tough ones in Chicago. I thought this was a real tough one to lose, considering the start that we got and the number of chances we had that I thought we squandered." The Giants led 3-1 through five innings but stranded four runners in scoring position in that span and ultimately went 2-for-14 in those situations. "Those things catch up with you," Bochy said. So did the Tigers in the seventh inning, which began with San Francisco leading, 3-2. Right-hander Ryan Vogelsong, who mostly sustained the type of performance that made him a National League All-Star, retired the first two batters he faced in the seventh but walked Brandon Inge on a 3-2 pitch, prolonging the inning and prompting Bochy to summon left-hander Jeremy Affeldt. "He was done; you could tell," Bochy said of Vogelsong. "Didn't finish," Vogelsong said self-critically. "Can't walk a guy with two outs. I wasn't spent. I was kind of struggling at times out of the windup all day and it just came back to bite me there. I just wanted to get that last out so bad, I think it just kind of hurt me." Affeldt walked pinch-hitter Jhonny Peralta before coaxing Brennan Boesch's routine grounder to third base. Miguel Tejada made a one-hop throw to first base that Pablo Sandoval couldn't quite hold. The play was scored as a throwing error on Tejada. More importantly, it loaded the bases. Santiago Casilla relieved Affeldt and yielded Magglio Ordonez's two-run single, putting Detroit ahead. Inge tripled home two more runs off Casilla in the eighth. Tejada's miscue made the seventh-inning runs unearned. It was one of three errors the Giants committed. "That's not us," Bochy said. "We didn't handle the ball very well." The Giants opened the scoring in the fourth inning against Tigers starter Rick Porcello as Aubrey Huff drew a leadoff walk, moved to third on Cody Ross' single and scored on Brandon Crawford's groundout. Boesch's leadoff homer in the bottom of the inning evened the score. San Francisco scored twice in the fifth. Emmanuel Burriss was hit by a pitch, advanced to third on Sandoval's double and scored on a wild pitch. Ross' single delivered Sandoval. Boesch vicitimized the Giants again in the sixth. He doubled with one out and scored when Ross mishandled Miguel Cabrera's two-out single to left field. Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. --

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