SAN FRANCISCO — The Mariners introduced Camilo Doval to a little something fans have dubbed “Chaos Ball.”
And it left the Giants closer, who was named to the National League All-Star team on Sunday, trudging off the mound with his shoulders slumped and his gaze stuck to his cleats in disgust and disappointment while most of the 40,691 fans at Oracle Park blamed home-plate umpire Lance Barrett for all that went wrong in the top of the ninth.
Ignited by the hustling pest that is Jose Caballero, who stole a pair of bases and prevented an out, benefiting moderately from a controversial hit by pitch on Ty France and getting a sacrifice fly from J.P. Crawford for the lead, a two-run double from Julio Rodriguez and an RBI single from Teoscar Hernandez, the Mariners scored four runs in the top of the ninth off Doval to break a 2-2 tie.
