Buster Posey adds spark for Giants

Buster Posey awakened Saturday morning in Salt Lake City, caught a flight to San Francisco, rescued a kitten from a tree, helped an old lady across the street and donated two pints of blood.

Well, not really. But honest to goodness, the stoic rookie with the Eagle Scout looks did arrive at AT&T Park. And gosh darn if he wasn't worth the wait.

Hours after the Giants recalled Posey, their brightest hitting prospect in two decades, he delivered three times in RBI situations and sparked the club to a 12-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

To a series of standing ovations at AT&T Park, the new No. 6 hitter lined a run-scoring single in the first inning for his first major league RBI. He shot another RBI single up the middle in the fifth. And he grounded a single through the left side with the bases loaded in the seventh.

Then he stood on first base, finally cracking a smile.

"It was great. It was fun. It's humbling," said Posey, asked about the crowd's embrace. "That's the time I have to slow myself down because it can get you going a little bit."

Juan Uribe and Eli Whiteside hit home runs to back Jonathan Sanchez as the Giants romped to their largest margin of victory this season.

Posey, 23, was batting .349 at Triple-A Fresno, and Giants officials finally indulged the pleas to promote him, deciding they had a window of opportunity at first base while Mark DeRosa and Edgar Renteria are on the disabled list.....read more