Royals take Game Three 3-2

The sixth inning featured four of the five runs that were scored in the game,but the run in the first inning is what made the difference as the Kansas City Royals took a two games to one game lead over the San Francisco Giants in the World Series with a 3-2 win in San Francisco.
Eric Hosmer's single off of Javier Lopez in the sixth was the actual winning run to boost the Royals to a 3-0 lead  before the Giants would trim the lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the inning for the eventual final score.
Game 4 is Saturday night with Ryan Vogelsong for the Giants against Jason Vargas for the Royals...

Giant Steps

1) Full points to Eric Hosmer for the game winning hit and he deserves it after hanging in there for eleven pitches against LOOGY Javier Lopez.
That's exactly what you hope for in those situations...

2) Jeremy Guthrie for the Royals didn't strike out a batter or walk one.
Putting the ball in play? Um,yeah.

3) Great defensive play by the Royals has been a consistent theme in this postseason and Lorenzo Cain made two sharp plays in the outfield.
I may not have liked it,but this team is very slick with the leather...

4) The Royals bullpen has been outstanding and that continued in this game as the bullpen did not give a hit up after Jeremy Guthrie was removed from the game.
If the Giants are going to pull this series out,they will need to do better against the Royals starters,which are their achilles heel.

5) Tim Hudson had his highlights,but for the second straight game,Bruce Bochy might have tried to squeeze an extra inning out of a pitcher that might have been better served pitching less.
Hudson allowed just four hits and I generally am not a fan of burning relievers so early,but in the cases of some of the Giant starters,the quicker hook might have been a better idea to consider in this series when you look at the difficulties against the Kansas City bullpen,...