And The Answer Is: Yusmeiro Petit...

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The San Francisco Giants had the National League record for retired batters in a row with 42 when Jim Barr did it...

Bruce Bochy, when they moved Tim Lincecum to the bullpen, decided to move Petit into the starting rotation and now the record is 46- and his...

Here's proof...


Petit surpassed Mark Buerhle's record of 45 in the process in his mix of relief and starting...

It started with a July 22 start at Philadelphia. Then came six consecutive appearances out of the bullpen, mostly as San Francisco's long reliever.

The Most Out-of-Control Half-Inning On The Mound Ever

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The HQ has a lot of friends north of the border and all we saw on the Twitter machine was the live responses to this...
It broke down like this... A franchise-record 8 walks in the 8th inning over three pitchers- Delabar, Santos, and JA Happ... A reliever who throws three wild pitches in Santos... The at-bats went this way... Steve Delabar started the inning walk walk sac bunt Pitching Change: Santos for Delabar walk wild pitch walk and wild pitch stolen base walk and wild pitch Pitching Change: Happ for Santos- Santos does not retire a batter stolen base walk walk single walk strikeout groundout John Gibbons got to talk about it after the game and reliever Steve Delabar states the obvious