More on the replay incident from the Dodgers game on Friday

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A review from Friday night’s home-run ruling in the Dodgers-Giants game:

• Giants Manager Bruce Bochy said he asked for a video review of the ball hit by Bengie Molina because Omar Vizquel thought he heard the ball hit the green metal lining at the top of the right-field wall. “Omar with his bionic ears,” Bochy said. “I don’t know how he heard.’

• Bochy tried to call back Emmanuel Burriss as he ran out of the dugout to pinch-run for Molina, knowing that he might be forced to burn a substitution if Burriss was signaled into the game. He was right.
• When Burriss returned to the dugout, Molina told him, “Nice swing,” according to Andy Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News.
• The Giants dropped their protest of the game.
• The umpiring crew from Friday night’s game was the same crew that was in St. Louis earlier this season when Dodgers Manager Joe Torre was forced to burn a substitution because of a technicality. “They were sensitive to me,” Torre said.
• Asked why he was insisting to the umpires that Burriss was in the game and Molina was out, Torre said that he did it for the long-term benefit of baseball. “It may force them to make some kind of ruling,” he said. “If this was a different time of year…”
• Torre said the 14-minute delay in Friday night’s game was the strangest incident of the year, topping the game that the Dodgers managed to win over the Angels without getting a hit. “If it was an effort to speed up the game, I don’t think that worked,” Torre joked.

-- Dylan Hernandez