Battle of the tugboats

Toot-tootin' off the mound after inducing an inning-ending double play to close out 6 scoreless, blaring that horn like he just navigated an oil tanker through the Strait of Messina.

While the brief for tugboats is to guide larger ships in and out of harbors, our boy Tugboat didn't find himself in many tight spaces in game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader against Arizona.

Stylistically the southpaw, with an "old-school" mix of low velocity and dense offerings, isn't afraid of contact. He struck out just four but held D-Back bats to just three singles, keeping them hitless in just one at-bat with a runner in scoring position. At one point, he retired 12 in a row from the 2nd through the 5th in just his third Major League appearance, and first in front of a San Francisco crowd.