This is getting silly now. Five innings have gone by in something like 70 or 75 minutes, and neither team appears even close to being able to put a run on the board. You get the feeling like this is going to come down to an error or a single mistake pitch.
Cliff Lee returned to the mound for the top of the fifth and got the job done without too much worry. Aubrey Huff hit a high chopper in the infield on which Ian Kinsler made a spectacular pick-up and throw, but Mitch Moreland couldn't handle the ball, and Huff reached base. No matter. Pat Burrell struck out swinging, and Edgar Renteria followed by pulling an inside pitch right to Elvis Andrus, who flipped to Kinsler, who flipped to Moreland for the textbook 6-4-3 to end the inning.
Then Lincecum just kept on doing what he's been doing. Kinsler took a strike, then grounded out weakly. David Murphy took a strike, then fouled a strike, then struck out swinging. Bengie Molina whiffed at two strikes before hitting a weak tapper back to the mound. Lincecum threw eight pitches in the inning, all of them strikes, and worked a perfect frame that didn't give the Rangers a chance.
To the sixth we go, knotted at 0-0. Pitch counts are 63 for Lee and 61 for Lincecum. Both guys are just throwing strike after strike, although Lincecum's been missing more bats.
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