Omar Infante led off the game with a double to the gap, but Tim Lincecum recovered a bit afterwards, getting Heyward to pop-up, then striking out both Derrek Lee and Brian McCann to get out of the top of the first. Lincecum wasn’t extremely sharp, going to three ball counts on three of the four hitters he saw, requiring 20 pitches to end the first half inning.

Derek Lowe heads out to take the mound for the bottom half of the first.