Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
San Francisco 3, Houston 1
When: 8:05 PM ET, Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Jerry Meals, 1B - Mark Wegner, 2B - Dan Iassogna, 3B - Dale Scott
Attendance: 29777
San Francisco ace Tim Lincecum outdueled Houston’s Roy Oswalt on Tuesday to lead the Giants to a 3-1 victory at Minute Maid Park in the interleague series opener.

Lincecum (8-2) went eight strong innings, allowing one unearned run on seven hits with two walks and seven strikeouts. Closer Brian Wilson came on in the ninth for his 20th save.

Oswalt pitched well enough to win but as what has become the norm this season, came up short as the offense struggled to get things going.

He went seven innings in the defeat while allowing six hits, two earned runs with a walk and six strikeouts but fell to 5-9 on the year.

Houston led 1-0 heading into the seventh before the Giants broke through against Oswalt. Aubrey Huff singled with one out and Juan Uribe followed with a walk. Pat Burrell got the Giants on the board with a single to score Huff and then Uribe scored on Pablo Sandoval’s fielder’s choice when Houston couldn’t turn a double play attempt.

The Giants added a run in the ninth off Wilton Lopez when Nate Schierholtz singled to score Freddy Sanchez.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
San Francisco   Houston
Tim Lincecum Player Roy Oswalt
Win W/L Loss
8.0 IP 7.0
7 Strikeouts 5
7 Hits 6
0.00 ERA 2.57
Hitting
San Francisco   Houston
Bengie Molina Player Michael Bourn
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 3
1.000 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
San Francisco 7 0 7 .226 9 5 3 1 0 3
Houston 7 0 8 .212 15 7 1 2 1 1
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