By Tony Jackson ESPNLosAngeles.com "I think the only person who wasn't panicky was Kuo. It wasn't the plan for all three of us to go out there. I was just trying to get him back in the strike zone. But he was the one saying, 'I'm OK, I'm OK.' He was great. He has been through so much in his career that, by comparison, this wasn't much." -- Ellis, on a ninth-inning meeting at the mound between him, closer du jour Hong-Chih Kuo, Blake and Furcal in the ninth inning at a point when Kuo had issued a one-out, four-pitch walk to Juan Uribe and missed with his first pitch to Rowand. Kuo's ninth inning felt eerily similar to Jonathan Broxton's disaster against the New York Yankees on Sunday night. There was a seven-pitch at-bat by Rowand that ended in a base hit to right field, putting runners on the corners with one out. And then, there was an eight-pitch at-bat by pinch hitter Buster Posey in which Posey fouled off two 3-2 pitches. But Posey finally swung and missed at a fastball, and Renteria then flied to right on the first pitch to end the game and seal Kuo's second save of the season on his 22nd pitch. http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/columns/story?id=5338657 ----- Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, June 29, 2010 The Giants had a chance to tie it with two aboard in the ninth against closer-for-a-day Hong-Chih Kuo, but Buster Posey, pinch-hitting for Sandoval, swung and missed at ball four for the second out and Edgar Renteria flied out to end it. Posey took some great cuts in his most important at-bat in the majors. His goal was clear: "I was thinking about driving in three runs," he said. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/28/SP8J1E672N.DTL ----- By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com 06/29/10 3:13 AM ET Then with one out in the ninth, Kuo walked Juan Uribe on four pitches and Rowand singled him to third. But Torre said he didn't allow himself to think he was headed for a replay of Sunday night. "I was relaxed," Torre insisted. "I said, 'This won't happen again.' I refused to believe it would happen again." Kuo struck out pinch-hitter Buster Posey and got Renteria on a fly to Ethier to end it. At one point, after throwing five consecutive balls, Kuo found catcher A.J. Ellis and infielders Blake and Furcal converging on him. "He was the only one not slightly panicking, especially after last night," said Ellis. "He kept saying he was OK. He's been through so much in his career, this wasn't much pressure." http://is.gd/d8AKz --

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