Down three runs and in danger of getting pushed to the World Series brink, Pablo Sandoval and the San Francisco Giants raised up some Panda-monium.
Sandoval's single set up the tying run in the fifth inning and the 2012 Series MVP followed with a go-ahead, two-run single in the sixth that sent the Giants surging past the Kansas City Royals 11-4 Saturday night at pulsating AT&T Park.
Hunter Pence, eyes ablaze, had three hits, three RBIs and a nifty sliding catch in the ninth inning, and Joe Panik hit a two-run double in a four-run seventh. San Francisco piled on 16 hits in a marathon of exactly four hours.
"We never give up, that's the thing," Sandoval said. "We've been doing it all year in these situations. We know how that feels."
The Series is tied at two games apiece, ensuring the title will be decided at Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium next week.
Madison Bumgarner tries to put the Giants ahead Sunday (8:07 p.m. ET) when he starts against Royals ace James Shields in a rematch of the opener, won by the Giants 7-1.
"This was a great ball game, I thought, especially the way we came back," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "So I enjoyed it."
Showcasing baseball at its exciting best, the game included a sprawling catch by Royals centre fielder Jarrod Dyson that left a pair of divots, and the first use of expanded video review in Series history, which became a turning point. Jeff Kellogg's safe call at second base was upheld on catcher Salvador Perez's pickoff attempt of Joaquin Arias, helping the Giants build the pivotal rally.
Ominous, dark clouds
The outlook seemed far different in the third inning, when ominous, dark clouds formed over the bayside ballpark, and the Royals burst ahead 4-1 against Ryan Vogelsong with the help of the botched grounder. Orange-clad fans quieted, and there even were scattered boos.
But Yusmiero Petit settled the National League champions with three innings of scoreless, two-hit relief to improve to 3-0 in the post-season, and 11 different Giants had hits, including three of 10 in the No. 9 spot; Petit's single made him the first Giants reliever to get a Series hit in 78 years.
Yost stayed with starter Jason Vargas into the fifth, removing him after Panik's leadoff double. Royals relievers had been 7-0 in the post-season and in Game 3 pitched four hitless innings to preserve a 3-2 win.
But Yost couldn't get to his HDH triad of hard-throwing relievers: Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland.
Jason Frasor and Danny Duffy combined to allow the tying run in a two-run fifth. And Brandon Finnegan, the first player to appear in the College World Series and World Series in the same year, allowed Sandoval's two-run single and Brandon Belt's RBI's single in the sixth.
Kansas City went ahead with a two-out four-run rally in the third with the help of two infield hits that gave the Royals 18 in the post-season, matching the total of all other teams combined.
Omar Infante grounded a two-run single up the middle for a 3-1 lead, and Perez followed with a bloop single for a 4-1 lead.
Buster Posey cut the deficit in the bottom half with an RBI single, tying Barry Bonds's' team record of 21 career post-season RBIs. Pence's RBI single in the fifth caused Frasor to throw up both arms in frustration, Sandoval singled Pence to third and Juan Perez's sacrifice fly made it 4-4.
Up next
Royals: Shields has a 7.11 ERA this post-season, counting 19 innings in four starts.
Giants: Bumgarner is 3-1 with a 1.40 ERA in five post-season starts this year.
Pitchers at the plate
Vargas became the first AL pitcher to bat twice in a Series inning since Boston's Luis Tiant in the 1975 opener. … The previous Giants reliever to get a Series hit was Slick Castleman, according to STATS.
Music to their ears
Carlos Santana played The Star-Spangled Banner on a guitar, joined by son Salvador Santana on keyboards. Just before that, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown, from the rubber, by Mo'ne Davis, the 13-year-old who this year became the first girl to pitch a shutout in the Little League World Series. Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who sustained a traumatic brain injury when he was beaten outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in 2011, yelled "Play Ball!" Stow was in a wheelchair near the Giants dugout, flanked by pitcher Jeremy Affeldt and third-base coach Tim Flannery.
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