San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain (18) sits in the dugout during a game against the Toronto Blue Jays at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, May 10, 2016.
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The San Francisco Giants could use a win after losing five of their last seven games.
San Francisco Giants’ Gregor Blanco hits an RBI double off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marcus Stroman in the second inning of their baseball game Wednesday, May 11, 2016, in San Francisco.
“He thinks differently”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of Happ’s new approach. The San Francisco Giants offense is nonexistent right now and has lost four of their last six games when scoring three or less runs. “He’s on familiar ground right now”. “The guys played a good game out there, we came back to tie it against a good pitching staff, battled our ass off and came up short”.
“I’m not happy with where I’m at but I’m not going to say everything is fine now”, he said.
Happ came within one out of his first complete game since 2010 and Toronto’s first this season, but needed help from Roberto Osuna to get the final out of the game, with two runners on base.
R.A. Dickey made a surprise appearance in the 10th inning, pinch-hitting for Chavez but bunting foul for strike three.
He drew a leadoff walk in the sixth and Kelby Tomlinson cracked a first-pitch single to advance him.
Saunders hit a one-out triple that Hunter Pence couldn’t cut off in the seventh, and scored when Span gloved Tulowitzki’s fly out and unleashed a throw that bounced off the mound. Closer Santiago Casilla’s third blown save of the season extended the game so long that Belt, who was too sick with the flu to be in the starting lineup, improved enough to enter on defense and score the winning run. But Cain struck out Happ to end the inning, and then faced the minimum over the next four frames – including the fifth, in which opponents had been 20 for 32 with 17 runs against him.
The Giants were shut out for the second time in three days and third overall.
They didn t even move a runner into scoring position until the sixth inning.
“It was huge, especially having a lead like that, we coughed it up, that would’ve been a tough one to lose, getting swept and to hit the road on”, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
“I know that we could have probably had a couple more wins at this point”, said Saunders, who is hitting. Albert Suarez was the winning pitcher by pitching a scoreless top of the 13th during which he gave up three hits but no runs.
Tonight, he went eight innings and struck out seven, tying a season-high.
“This is something to build off of and carry it into the next one”.
Happ pitched around Tulowitzki’s throwing error to get out of jam in the eighth.
Just try telling that to athletes who just got off the field after 4 hours, 28 minutes.
Consecutive singles by Kevin Pillar and Saunders and a force out by Josh Donaldson left the Blue Jays with runners at first and third, but Suarez got Jose Bautista to pop up on a 3-2 pitch for the third out.
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By the time Bumgarner got out of that third inning, he had already thrown 65 pitches, while Stroman’s total was also elevated, at 54 pitches.
The post Matt Cain finds his form, but Giants can’t break out the bats in 4-0 loss to Blue Jays appeared first on Giants Extra. He owns a 1.87 ERA over his last five starts.
The game lasted so long that Giants starter Madison Bumgarner, who exited with two outs in the seventh, joked afterward he wouldn’t be able to answer questions about his outing because, “I can’t remember what happened”.
However, after Denard Span and Joe Panik combined to hit 3-23 in the three-game series, the top three hitters in the Giants lineup hit a horrific 4-34 against the Blue Jays.
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Blue Jays shortstop Troy Tulowitzki enjoyed facing his old NL West nemesis as he went 2 for 3 with a homer and three RBI.
