But he came relatively close during Monday’s extra-innings spectacle against the Miami Marlins. Miami only managed a total of four hits and was 1-9 with runners in scoring position. Yelich reached first base on the play as the Marlins defeated the Giants 2-0.
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San Francisco Giants catcher/first baseman Buster Posey is getting the night off Tuesday against the Miami Marlins.
Even if doctors ordered otherwise, Giants coaches and players knew that Bochy, who is expected back Tuesday, would be watching them on television from his hospital bed where he was kept under observation Monday night. As long as baseball has been around, as many games as we play, how many times do we see something that’s only happened (four) other times?
Giants win 8-7 thanks to Crawford’s 7-for-8.
“We came up with a plan”, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. We re lucky he didn t get hurt.
Unlike Monday, when the Marlins’ bullpen wasted a strong start from Jose Fernandez on the way to a 14-inning defeat, the relief corps put the finishing touches on Koehler’s superlative performance.
“He’s basically been our best pitcther the last month”. Crawford struck out after Koehler issued a pair of one-out walks in the first inning. Whether it’s 0 for 4 with four strikeouts or 6 for 7, you try to take every one separate and go in with a good approach. “I’m not trying to get too high on what’s going on”.
The shortstop finished the game 7-for-8 with two RBI’s, a run, a stolen base and drove in the wining run with a single in the top of the 14th inning. Once Koehler was pulled after seven innings, Brian Ellington pitched a clean inning in the eighth, and Fernando Rodney bounced back from his recent slump by picking up the save. Dee Gordon walked, Martin Prado singled and Stanton hit a one-out double that one-hopped the wall in left field.
“I think that was why”, Crawford said. “That’s a joke. A bat’s not supposed to go 110 feet and the ball 370”. “I’ve just got to be more competitive early on in counts”.
The 29-year-old Crawford’s seven hits were more than he had recorded in his previous nine starts combined, going 6-35 in that stretch. Jeff Samardzija toes the rubber against he Marlins for the second time this season. Matt Moore walked five in six innings, but he allowed just three hits and the two runs. Bochy said he began to feel unwell after the team flight from Washington D.C. arrived in Miami on Sunday night, and he tried to sleep through it before calling head athletic trainer Dave Groeschner.
On Tuesday, he held the Giants to only two hits while improving his career mark against San Francisco to 3-0.
“We’re just not firing on all cylinders right now with our lineup”, Bochy said.
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Giancarlo Stanton has driven in at least one run in each contest of his five-game hitting streak. With the tying runs on base in the eighth inning, he flied out on a 98 miles per hour fastball down the middle.
