Ty Blach had a pretty good idea he had exceeded his teammates' wildest expectations of what he could do with a bat. The reaction he got from teammate Denard Span rounding third base sealed it. "Denard's look in the on-deck circle, that was pretty funny, he was just kind of like `Did you just do that?" Blach said. "That was a great moment." Blach pitched eight strong innings and hit a three-run homer and Jarrett Parkerhad three hits and three RBI in his first game back from the disabled list as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Oakland Athletics 11-2 on Thursday night. read more http://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=370803126