The blast provided an early cushion for Barry Zito, who shook off a pair of rough outings while hold

San Francisco Giants' Buster Posey hits three-run homer in 4-2 win over St. Louis Cardinals - The Willits News
San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt celebrates with catcher Buster Posey after striking out St. Louis Cardinals' Daniel Descalso in the ninth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in St. Louis. The Giants won 4-2. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)
ST. LOUIS -- The timing for the release Buster Posey's mobile game, "Buster Bash," couldn't have been any better. Posey stayed scorching hot in Tuesday's 4-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, hitting a three-run homer that was his fifth in six games.
The blast provided an early cushion for Barry Zito, who shook off a pair of rough outings while holding the Cardinals to two Allen Craig homers through six innings at Busch Stadium. Zito was at 97 pitches up to that point, but Bochy, dealing budget travel ireland with a slumping bullpen, sent Zito back out for the seventh.
The bullpen had allowed 26 earned runs over the previous 11 games, leading Bochy to significantly alter his late-inning assignments. Santiago Casilla, the closer for much of the season, warmed up in the seventh but never entered. Sergio Romo got two easy outs in the eighth before allowing a double and giving way to Jeremy Affeldt.
Zito was 1-6 with a 5.23 ERA in eight career starts against the Cardinals, but he deftly worked through their lineup Tuesday. The outing was just the third since 2009 in which Zito pitched at least six innings without issuing a walk.
He improved to 120-7 in his career when receiving at least four runs of support, budget travel ireland Advertisement and as has been the case for much of the season's second half, the biggest contribution came from Posey, who helped create a home-run-hitting budget travel ireland mobile game that was released Monday. His three-run homer in the first gave him eight homers and 30 RBIs in 22 games since the All-Star break.
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