Giants' Bochy makes a few moves

ARLINGTON, Texas - With his team still in relative control of this World Series, leading two games to one, Giants manager Bruce Bochy did some minor surgery on his Game 4 lineup last night.

Aubrey Huff, who started at first base in the first three games, was in the lineup as the designated hitter. He hit a two-run homer in the third inning of the Giants' 4-0 victory and is batting .357 in the World Series.

Perhaps most significant, the slumping Pat Burrell, who started in leftfield the first three games, was not in the lineup. Cody Ross moved from rightfield to left, Nate Schierholtz started in right and Travis Ishikawa went to first.

Burrell has had a miserable postseason, batting .158 with 19 strikeouts in 13 games, including four in Game 3. He has four RBIs, three of which came on his only home run, a drive against the Braves in the NLDS.

"Pretty much what we've been doing all year," Bochy said. "If somebody is not quite seeing the ball as well, we give them a break and just put somebody else out there."

Li'l Wash

In the dugout before the game, Rangers manager Ron Washington spent time with 7-year-old Liam Roybal, better known around here as Li'l Ron. The second-grader at a local school dressed up as Washington when his school hosted a career day recently and was a guest of the Rangers last night.

"It's nice that there could be someone that wants to imitate Ron Washington," he said Friday. "I never in all my wildest dreams thought that. He might want to imitate some other star. I certainly don't consider myself a star. I'm just a baseball man. [But] that means a lot."

Extra bases

Before the game, the Blue Jays' Jose Bautista and the Reds' Joey Votto received the Hank Aaron Award as their league's top offensive player, voted on by fans. Derek Jeter and the Cardinals' Albert Pujols won last year's awards . . . At 22 years, 181 days old, Rangers closer Neftali Feliz became the second-youngest pitcher to save a World Series game, 75 days younger than Rangers president Nolan Ryan, who saved Game 3 of the 1969 Series for the Mets.