Charlie Culberson doubled with one out in the 10th inning to score Corey Seager as the Los Angeles Dodgers completed a late rally to secure a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants in a rain-delayed game on Saturday afternoon. He walked one and struck out five. You see, in 2014 Stripling had Tommy John (elbow) surgery, and has only made 14 appearances since then, with 93 pitches being his highest count. “But he stayed resilient and was able to help us win the game”. Granting Stripling a hall pass to throw as many pitches as he can before giving up a hit seems romantic, but some threshold must exist. “At 100 pitches, that was our number….”
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“My teammates told me to keep the game at 5-0”. I made that decision if somebody gets on base, we’re going to go to [Chris Hatcher]. “We had the lead with the closer out there”. It was only the second time in his career Kershaw has allowed a home run to a No. 9 hitter – joined by Bumgarner s first home run off Kershaw past year. Trevor Brown home run. Denard Span followed with an infield hit off J.P. Howell and Panik gave San Francisco its first lead with his double. San Diego was outscored 25-0 while getting swept by the Dodgers.
There was also a piece of history at Atlanta as St. Louis got three homers from pinch hitters and rallied from a big deficit to beat the Braves, while Houston’s loss at Milwaukee was partially caused by the contentious new base-sliding rule. Garcia and Stephen Piscotty homered in the ninth. The All-Star right-hander was removed as a precaution with tightness in his right lat, the Mets announced. It makes sense with Kershaw on the mound, but this breaks the string of alternating starts between him and Austin Barnes.
“The pen’s going to be fine”, he said.
Sunday’s comeback included three home runs, with Buster Posey, Brandon Belt and Angel Pagan all going deep. Cueto had slipped on his way to back up a throw to home plate.
Giants: RHP Jeff Samardzija (0-0, 5.06) looks to bounce back from a rough debut for San Francisco when the Giants open a three-game series at Colorado on Tuesday.
Dodgers: Kershaw is 2-4 with a 2.12 ERA in the head-to-head outings with Bumgarner. Hunter Pence added a sacrifice fly to make it 9-6.
Alex Gordon singled and scored on Perez’s triple.
The visiting clubhouse staff had champagne ready just in case and plans were in the works how to best protect the new carpet replaced after the Dodgers’ clinched here past year and celebrated. The Giants starter contributed to the game with more than just his pitching game though, he was well prepared, according to ESPN.
At 4-0, Pittsburgh was off to its best start since 2003.
Bumgarner blasted his second career home run off Kershaw – and 12th overall – to kick it off in the third inning.
TORONTO (AP) – Dustin Pedroia had three hits and two RBIs and Rick Porcello pitched six innings to win his season debut to lead Boston.
Bumgarner hit a solo home run off Kershaw in the second inning, his second in two seasons against his National League West rival.
Cabrera hit an RBI single in the first and a solo homer in the seventh. NY didn’t put two runners on in an inning after that. The Twins fell to 0-5 for the first time since the Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1961. Crawford became the 11th Dodger to go on the DL this season. That allowed Utley to score the tying run. He’s the only player, regardless of position, to homer twice off Kershaw in that span.
Josh Reddick also homered for Oakland.
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Samardzija didn’t impress in his Giants debut Wednesday, allowing three runs on eight hits and three walks in 51/3 innings against the Brewers in a no-decision. He was brought up from Triple-A earlier in the day. “But that’s why you have to play them”.
