SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Play-by-play of Game 5 of the 2014 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants:
Lineups_Royals: Alcides Escobar (ss), Alex Gordon (lf), Lorenzo Cain (rf), Eric Hosmer (1b), Salvador Perez (c), Mike Moustakas (3b), Omar Infante (2b), Jarrod Dyson (cf), James Shields (rhp).
Giants: Gregor Blanco (cf), Joe Panik, (2b), Buster Posey (c), Pablo Sandoval (3b), Hunter Pence (rf), Brandon Belt (1b), Travis Ishikawa (lf), Brandon Crawford (ss), Madison Bumgarner (lhp).
Umpires_Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, Jeff Kellogg; Second, Jeff Nelson; Third, Eric Cooper; Left, Jim Reynolds; Right, Ted Barrett; Replay, Jerry Meals.
Official Scorers– Chuck Dybdal (Giants official scorer), Jeff Passan (Yahoo! Sports), Susan Slusser (San Francisco Chonicle).
First Pitch– 8:09 p.m. EDT.
Royals First: Bumgarner pitching. Escobar flied out to left fielder Ishikawa. Gordon grounded out, second baseman Panik to first baseman Belt. Cain singled to center. Hosmer struck out.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Giants 0, Royals 0.
Giants First: Shields pitching. Blanco grounded out to first baseman Hosmer. Panik flied out to center fielder Dyson. Posey singled to center. Sandoval grounded out, second baseman Infante to first baseman Hosmer.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Giants 0, Royals 0.
Royals Second: S.Perez singled to right. Moustakas struck out swinging. Infante struck out swinging. Dyson struck out swinging.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Giants 0, Royals 0.
Giants Second: Pence singled to left. Belt singled on a bunt to short, Pence to second. Ishikawa flied out to center, Pence to third, Belt to second. Crawford grounded out, second baseman Infante to first baseman Hosmer, Pence scored, Belt to third. Bumgarner grounded out, third baseman Moustakas to first baseman Hosmer.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Giants 1, Royals 0.
Royals Third: Shields flied out to center fielder Blanco. Escobar flied out to center fielder Blanco. Gordon struck out swinging, catcher Posey to first baseman Belt.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Giants 1, Royals 0.
Giants Third: Blanco flied out to left fielder Gordon. Panik grounded out, shortstop Escobar to first baseman Hosmer. Posey grounded out, second baseman Infante to first baseman Hosmer.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Giants 1, Royals 0.
Royals Fourth: Cain grounded out, shortstop Crawford to first baseman Belt. Hosmer grounded out, third baseman Sandoval to first baseman Belt. S.Perez grounded out to first baseman Belt.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Giants 1, Royals 0.
Giants Fourth: Sandoval singled to left. Pence struck out swinging. Belt struck out swinging. Ishikawa singled to short, Sandoval to second. Crawford singled to center, Sandoval scored, Ishikawa to second. Bumgarner struck out swinging.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Giants 2, Royals 0.
Royals Fifth: Moustakas lined out to shortstop Crawford. Infante doubled to left center. Dyson struck out swinging. Shields struck out swinging, catcher Posey to first baseman Belt.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Giants 2, Royals 0.
Giants Fifth: Blanco grounded out, second baseman Infante to first baseman Hosmer. Panik singled to center. With Posey batting, Panik to second on wild pitch by Shields. Posey walked. Sandoval struck out swinging. Pence flied out to right fielder Cain.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Giants 2, Royals 0.
Royals Sixth: Escobar popped out to catcher Posey in foul territory. Gordon popped out to shortstop Crawford. Cain lined out to left fielder Ishikawa.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Giants 2, Royals 0.
Giants Sixth: Belt flied out to left fielder Gordon. Ishikawa singled to right. Juan Perez, pinch ran for Ishikawa. Crawford bounced out, pitcher Shields to first baseman Hosmer. Bumgarner popped out to third baseman Moustakas.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Giants 2, Royals 0.
Royals Seventh: J.Perez remains in game as left fielder. Hosmer singled to right. S.Perez flied out to J.Perez. Moustakas flied out to center fielder Blanco. Infante grounded out, third baseman Sandoval to first baseman Belt.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Giants 2, Royals 0.
Giants Seventh: Kelvin Herrera relieved Shields, replacing Infante in batting order and batting seventh. Jason Nix replaces Infante, playing second and batting ninth. Blanco grounded out, first baseman Hosmer to pitcher Herrera. Panik walked. Posey grounded into a double play, second baseman Nix to shortstop Escobar to first baseman Hosmer, Panik out at second.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Giants 2, Royals 0.
Royals Eighth: Billy Butler, pinch hitting for Dyson, struck out looking. Nix flied out to left. Escobar flied out to center fielder Blanco.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Giants 2, Royals 0.
Giants Eighth: Cain moved from right to center field. Nori Aoki replaces Butler, batting eighth and playing right. Sandoval singled to right. Pence singled to left center, Sandoval to second. Wade Davis relieved Herrera, batting seventh. Belt struck out looking. J.Perez doubled to the top of the left center field wall, Sandoval and Pence scored, and on Escobar’s throwing error, J.Perez to third. Crawford singled to left, J.Perez scored. Bumgarner struck out looking. Panik struck out looking
3 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Giants 5, Royals 0.
Royals Ninth: Gordon flied out to right fielder Pence. Cain grounded out, shortstop Crawford to first baseman Belt. Hosmer grounded out, third baseman Sandoval to first baseman Belt.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Giants 5, Royals 0.
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