As Matt Moore chased history in his no-hit bid against the Dodgers on Thursday, Giants manager Bruce Bochy had one eye on the mound and the other on Moore's pitch count..
By the end of the seventh inning, Moore had thrown 95 pitches. That's a lot of pitches through seven, especially for a pitcher coming off Tommy John surgery, as Moore had in 2014.
So when Moore walked Yasmani Grandal to open the eighth, Bochy got the bullpen up. But he left Moore in to work his way through the rest of the inning, a tough, 25-pitch inning that left Moore's no-hitter intact, but at a price.