San Francisco Giants’ Jeff Samardzija delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in Miami.
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Texas has won five in a row, including three straight against the Rockies in games where they trailed going into the eighth inning. Crawford tied the record with seven hits in Monday’s 1.
Phillies 6, Dodgers 2 • In Los Angeles, Freddy Galvis hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning, Ryan Howard added a three-run, pinch double in the ninth and Philadelphia beat Los Angeles. Rennie Stennett visited the ballpark Wednesday so he could congratulate San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, who had seven hits in Monday’s August 8, 14-inning victory at Miami. The under is also 22-8 in his last 30 games behind home plate, is 5-2 in his last seven games behind home plate when he’s calling Giants games, and is 7-3 in his 10 games behind home plate on a Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO: The Giants have been a bad bet of late with Samardzija on the mound, losing all four of his last four starts and all four of his last four starts on the road.
Frustration by Miami peaked in the sixth inning, when Bonds was ejected for arguing after pinch hitter Chris Johnson was called out on strikes with two on to end the threat.
Ichiro (3,002 career hits) moved past Roberto Clemente for 29th on the all-time hits list. Teammate Marcell Ozuna singled to end an 0-for-18 slump.
After scoring two runs in the first inning on Tuesday, the Marlins have now gone 17 innings without a run.
San Francisco won with six hits.
Phelps, who teamed with Samardzija in 2006 to lead Notre Dame to a Big East championship, fell to 5-6 despite allowing just the one run in five innings. The Marlins have been shut out five times since the All-Star break.NOTES: Marlins RF Giancarlo Stanton (sore hip) was not in the lineup, although manager Don Mattingly said this had already been scheduled as a rest day.
Crawford and Stennett shook hands and posed for photos on the field before the final game of the Giants-Marlins series.
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.
Stennett lives in South Florida. 1B Xavier Scruggs, who hit.283 with nine homers and 20 RBIs in 27 games at Triple-A New Orleans, was named Miami’s Minor League Hitter of the Month. “He said he had three hits and two hits the next couple of days, so he did a little better than I did the next day”.
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Crawford, who went 9 for 16 in the series to hike his average to.277, pulled a 3-2 changeup from David Phelps over the fence.
