Brandon Crawford homered in the fourth inning and the San Francisco Giants won a series for the first time since the All-Star break, beating the Marlins, 1-0, Wednesday in Miami.
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Gio Gonzalez (8-9) allowed four runs and seven hits, including a home run by Francisco Lindor, and struck out five in five-plus innings.
Oscar Hernandez hit his first major league homer in the 12th inning, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks over the New York Mets 3-2 on Wednesday night.
“We couldn’t mount anything”, Mattingly said. He pulled a 3-2 pitch from Phelps and barely got the ball over the fence in right field for his 11th homer of the season.
Bochy said he dealt with an irregular hearbeat “a couple of times” and it is not related to the blockage that required him to have two stents inserted during spring training 2015. “I’m ready to go”.
Because there wasn’t too much action to pick apart and bullpens were used pretty well in this low scoring game, I figured I would take a look at where these team’s relievers stack up among the rest of the Major League Baseball.
Crawford visited before the game with Rennie Stennett about the NL record they share.
The Giants went 4-5 on their trip and improved to 8-16 since the All-Star break. They have a one-game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. The team will be responsible for the remainder of the $62.5 million, six-year contract he signed with the Dodgers in early 2015.
On Wednesday afternoon at Marlins Park, two former Notre Dame baseball players – Jeff Samardzija and David Phelps – battled on the mound. In the bottom of the ninth, Ichiro Suzuki doubled with two outs, but was stranded at second to end the game.
“I think that was why”, Crawford said.
Samardzija had lost his past three starts. But Miami bunched two hits in an inning only once in the second and Derek Dietrich was thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double.
Padres 4, Pirates 0: Travis Jankowski capped San Diego’s scoring with a straight steal of home in the eighth inning, and Edwin Jackson limited Pittsburgh to two hits in seven innings. He is 3-0 with a 0.67 ERA over his last four starts. Garcia (9-8) needed only 85 pitches to get through eight-plus innings. The umpire tossed the coach, the first ejection of Bonds’ coaching career.
Hernandez was recalled from Double-A Mobile after Arizona placed catcher Welington Castillo on the paternity list Tuesday.
Samardzija, and subsequently the Giants bullpen, made the lead stick by holding the Marlins (60-54) to five hits.
The Giants had three at-bats with runners in scoring position all game.
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A’s 2, Orioles 1 • Jake Smolinski singled and scored the deciding run in the third inning, rookie Zach Neal earned his first career win as a starter and host Oakland held on to beat Baltimore.
