Panik bolts on a ball in the dirt and Perez doesn’t even attempt a throw, Giants have another runner in scoring position.
Shields gets Blanco to start the inning, but Panik singles up the middle, bringing Posey up to the plate.
Shields follows suit, becomes Bumgarner’s seventh strike out victim and the Royals fail to bring Infante around to score, still trail 2-0.
Dyson strikes out, bringing up Shields with Infante standing on second.
Infante ends a string of 10 in a row retired by Bumgarner with a double to left. Dyson up with a man in scoring position.
Shields retires Bumgarner with a strike out, but the Giants’ pitcher gets a little boost with the single run in the frame. Royals need to figure something out quick on offense.
While called a hit, the misplay by Escobar proves costly with Crawford dumping a single into center that Dyson mishandles, allowing Sandoval to amble home and make the score 2-0, Giants ahead.
Shields continues to look sharp, strikes out Belt with a breaking ball that Belt couldn’t have hit with a light pole.
Hunter Pence gets fooled, strikes out and loses his bat all in one motion.
Sandoval finds a hole to the right of Moustakas, squeezing a ground ball between the line and the third baseman for a leadoff single.
Royals downed quickly with three ground ball outs in the fourth, have no answer for Bumgarner yet and still trail 1-0.
Shields does well to bounce back in the third after giving up a run in the second, retires the top of the Giants’ order in only seven pitches.
Panik quickly erased and Shields has two outs with only four pitches thrown so far in the inning.
Gregor Blanco has seen two pitches from Shields tonight, and has been retired each time, flying out to Gordon to start the bottom of the third.
Gordon waives at a big, sweeping curve ball from Bumgarner to strike out and end the top of the third. In now 25 combined World Series innings, Bumgarner has only yielded a single run, that coming off a Perez home run in the 7th inning of Game 1.
Blanco makes a nice running catch on a sinking liner off Escobar’s bat for the second out of the inning.
Shields skies out to center field and there is one out with the top of the order coming up, Escobar at bat.
Shields gets his pitching adversary Bumgarner to ground out to Moustakas and the inning is over, Giants lead 1-0. Shields will lead off the Royals half of the third.
Giants take a 1-0 lead on a Crawford ground out, Belt advances to third with two outs in the inning. Shields had Crawford in a two-strike count, he’s struck out 12 times in the postseason, but Crawford did well to make contact and drove in the run
Royals with a rare mental lapse on defense. Dyson catches a fly ball to deep center that Pence advances to third on, but the throw, which should have come to the bag at second, sails towards the shortstop hole, allowing Belt to advance. Giants now with men on second and third with one out.
Belt with a surprise bunt that Escobar does well to field and just misses throwing him out at first.
Hunter Pence falls behind 0-2, but gets another 2-strike hit in the World Series, he’s now 5-9 in two strike counts during the Fall Classic.
Bumgarner mixes it up by striking out Dyson with a 94-mph fastball up and in and ends up striking out the side in the Royals’ half of the second.
Bumgarner quickly strikes out Infante, all three punch outs so far have come on breaking balls from Giants’ left-handed starter.
Moustakas battles Bumgarner, spoiling a couple 3-2 pitches, but strikes out for the first out in the top of the 2nd.
Support for KC has been strong all over the place this postseason, even in the opponents’ home parks.
Royals have singles in each of the first two innings of Bumgarner after Perez slashes a ball the other way past Panik. Leadoff man on, Moustakas up for KC.
Shields falls behind 2-0 to Sandoval, but the Giants’ third baseman rolls over on a fastball that Infante snags at second and the inning is over. Top 2, no score yet in Game 5.