He hit 35 homers and drove in 111 runs while batting. Then Hunter Strickland followed with two dominant strikeouts before Franco hit a chopper up the middle that scored Taylor Featherston to make it 8-8.
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“Oh yeah, I’ve gone up to guys who’ve said a bunch of stuff like that, and I said, ‘come on, there’s kids here… would you do that in front of your own kids?’ ” said Childs, who gets to about a half dozen Jays games a year.
“It’s hard to believe”, San Francisco starting pitcher Johnny Cueto said through an interpreter.
“We play as a team and never give up”, Franco said. “The only thing we can do is keep grinding and keep putting our best effort out there, every time we go out”. That feeling entered a realm of greater certainty when Cesar Hernandez double clutched and botched a routine double play to allow runners at first and third with two outs.
Franco then flared a broken-bat single to center to bring Joseph home.
Garcia (1-0) pitched a scoreless inning for the win, capping an impressive performance by Philadelphia’s bullpen.
That awoke an offense that Cueto breezed through the first six frames, allowing just two different Phillies to reach base with Howard getting on twice. That began a run a 19-straight Giants retired between Klein and relievers Brett Oberholtzer, the newly recalled Michael Mariot, Hector Neris and Eddy Ramos. “We got to them late and took advantage”. Four runs in this ballpark, anything can happen….
Listen, we’re completely on Davidson’s side here – it must have been miserable to sit near that guy while he was carrying on – but that burn was a pretty #nice one.
Cueto’s night was long over when the game ended in unusual fashion. Philadelphia scratched scheduled starter Aaron Nola 4 hours before the game and placed him on the 15-day disabled list with a strained elbow.
At the plate: The Giants didn’t have a baserunner from Denard Span’s one-out single in the fourth to Pence’s leadoff single in the 11th.
With the bases loaded and one out, Franco lined what appeared to be a clean single into right-center field. The Giants hadn’t done anything wrong – it was a foul-mouthed fan sitting a few rows deep who had ticked off Davidson by shouting lewd remarks, sexual innuendo and telling Giants players they “suck”.
Cameron Rupp blew the game open two batters later with his 11th homer of the season. They’re winless at 0-7 in his last seven home starts versus a team with a winning record, are 0-4 in his last four starts when coming off five days of rest, and are 3-13 in his last 16 starts versus a team with a winning record.
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Andrew Baggarly, who covers the San Francisco Giants (the Phillies’ opponent Tuesday night) had this from the transcription of comments by Davidson’s pool report.
