Aoki was up there so we'd avoid Billy grounding into a DP. He hit the ball hard. Its baseball, sometimes line drives go right at big fat guys playing 3rd, sometimes hard hit balls make easy DPs.
That game was more about the Giants than us. They strung together hits, and we didn't after the 3rd. And I do think its reasonable to be optimistic tonight. Hos and Moose and Billy all swung it well against Bumgarner. This is not Sandy Koufax or 99 Pedro. He is not unhittable. It might be only like a 25% shot, but we can win tonight. If we lose, guess what? We have to win 2 games against Peavy and Hudson, possibly the 2 crappiest pitchers (besides Vogelsong sheesh) we've faced in the postseason.