Worth noting

• Catcher Buster Posey was out of the starting lineup Saturday night, and Hector Sanchez made his 12th start of the season at catcher, with right-hander Tim Lincecum on the mound.

"He was going to get today or tomorrow off," Bochy said of Posey. "So I'm going to give him a day off."

Sanchez entered Saturday with 13 hits in his past 38 at-bats (.342) with two home runs and 13 RBIs. Sanchez caught Lincecum in his last start Monday. Lincecum allowed one run and two hits over 7 2/3 innings in a 4-2 victory against Atlanta, and Sanchez went 2-for-4 and scored a run.

• Bochy on having Tony La Russa in the National League West as Arizona's new chief baseball officer: "He'll bring a lot of knowledge, experience. It seems like this was something he really wanted, to get with a ballclub. I'm happy for him that he's got something that it seemed like he'd been looking for, so good for him."