Thursday, June 25th - World Champion San Francisco Giants game followed by The Book of Mormon

What a day, what a game!  I love week day baseball games!!!!! Always have and always will!

Today's start time was 12:45 pm and it was a glorious day in SF.  And wht a game it was Giants vs. the San Diego Padres, the final score 13 to 8, here is a recap

By Chris Haft and Corey Brock 

SAN FRANCISCO -- Silent with the bats at AT&T Park through much of the season, the San Francisco Giants unleashed an unusual torrent of offense that featured four triples and resulted in a 13-8 victory over the San Diego Padres. San Francisco took two of three from the Padres for its first home series win since a May 19-21 sweep over the Dodgers.

Brandon Belt collected two triples, driving in a first-inning run with the first hit and scoring to ignite a three-run fourth inning after the second. Matt Duffy tripled to help the Giants add a pair of runs in the fifth, and Brandon Crawford tripled home a run in the seventh.

Belt pulled into third base standing up on both hits. "When I sniff a triple, I'm going to turn it on and use those big giraffe strides," he said, referring to his "Baby Giraffe" nickname.

The Giants matched a single-game franchise high for triples in the San Francisco era (since 1958), which they previously reached on Sept. 15, 1960. They also established season highs for runs and hits (19). Before Thursday, the Giants were averaging 3.05 runs per game at home, the lowest output in the Majors.

The Giants needed all the offense they could summon. Trailing, 7-0, after six innings, the Padres roared back against San Francisco starter Chris Heston (8-5) and three relievers to narrow the deficit to 9-8. San Diego's sixth-run eighth inning, highlighted by Matt Kemp's two-run homer, put a scare into the Giants. But they scored four runs in the eighth to cruise to victory. "Obviously we would have liked not to make it interesting, but it was good to counter-punch," second baseman Joe Panik said.

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
First things first: Angel Pagan had mustered one extra-base hit in his previous 103 plate appearances when he doubled to open the Giants' first inning. That set the tone for the Giants as they amassed eight extra-base hits, a season-high.

Big comeback: After doing essentially nothing for six innings Thursday, the Padres got two runs in the seventh inning and then six more in the eighth inning on seven hits and one walk. Yangervis Solarte, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter, had two hits in the 8th. "We got back in the game, we fought back and that shows the character of our team," said Kemp.

Taking over: Buster Posey helped sustain the Giants late, collecting all three of his RBIs from the fifth inning on. He hit an RBI single in the fifth inning and a two-run double in the eighth. He has 21 RBIs this month.

After the game Jessica and Beth met Ally and Katherine for an all girls night - to see the Musical "Book of Mormon".    Beth and I had already seen the show in NY and loved it. Jessica waited after the show to get the autograph of one of her favorite actors A. J. Holmes, which she got along with a few others,  maybe Ron Bohmer, or could it have been Stanley Wayne Mathis?  Jessica can you correct me?