The umpire is Brian O’Nora. Casilla was asked to preserve a two-run lead and couldn’t do it, serving up a single to Manny Machado, a walk to Mark Trumbo, and a go-ahead three-run homer to Jonathan Schoop.
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“Oh, the feeling is wonderful”, Schoop said.
In the top of the third, Manny Machado hit a bullet single to left and Trumbo followed with a nine-pitch battle that culminated with him mashing a Cain fastball well over the left-field wall. His first double split the gap in left-center field, a staple in Panik’s arsenal the past two seasons, and may have been aided by a tough sun that blinded left fielder Nolan Reimold. He stranded six baserunners.NOTES: In a ceremony several hours before the night game, the Giants unveiled a larger-than-life (9-foot) bronze statue of RHP Gaylord Perry outside of AT&T Park.
“Good start to the series”, Orioles manager Buck Showalter assessed. “He’s getting out of the game what he puts into it. Jon doesn’t cheat the game”. “Bum threw a attractive game, so it was a good bounce-back for us”. He’d never previously walked more than four in a start.One of the walks contributed to the Giants’ two-run second inning.After Gausman walked Hunter Pence leading off the inning, Joe Panik doubled to put two runners in scoring position. The Giants, who’ve only won two in a row once since the All-Star break, would like to get on a bit of a roll during this stretch where they play 15 of 18 at home.
After Friday night’s game, manager Bruce Bochy said he saw signs that some of his slumping hitters were ready to break out. “They have a unsafe lineup one through eight there, they can hurt you, that’s what happened today”.
Record-setting closer Zach Britton pitched out of a two-on, two-out jam in the bottom of the ninth for his 37th consecutive save this season and 41st dating to last September.
Giants outfielder Hunter Pence homered off Wade Miley in the fourth inning, his first since a almost two-month stint on the disabled list that ended July 30.
Davis led off the fifth with his 24th homer of the season for the Orioles, who are 4-4 on a 10-game road trip that ends Sunday in San Francisco. Pagan stole second, then Brandon Belt hit a home run and Jimenez issued another walk to Brandon Posey all before recording an out.
Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman, the No. 4 overall pick of the 2012 draft, and Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner, who went 10th overall in 2007, will square off where Baltimore’s Dylan Bundy (fourth overall, 2011) got the better of San Francisco’s Matt Cain (25th overall, 2002) in the series opener Friday. He was acquired from Seattle on July 31 and remains winless with his new team. That didn’t lead to as many runs as you would hope – only Hunter Pence scored, after Panik’s probably-should-have-been-caught double – but it did dramatically increase Gausman’s pitch count, to the point where he threw 97 pitches in just 4 innings. For two games and six innings, the Giants mostly kept two hands on the reins. She was the daughter of former Giants executive vice president Corey Busch and served as the team’s batgirl from 2000 to 2001. He was like, ‘Hey, no matter what, you’ve just got to keep pitching.’ He’s like, ‘I don’t care if you walk 10 guys. He was added to the lineup when catcher Buster Posey was a late scratch with lower back tightness.
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Giants: Bochy said there’s no date set for the return of RHP Cory Gearrin, who has made five relief appearances at Triple-A Sacramento while rehabbing from a right shoulder strain. Baseball Hall of Fame director Jeff Idelson presented Giants SS Brandon Crawford with a lifetime pass Saturday in exchange for the bat he used while collecting seven hits Monday against the Miami Marlins. After going 3-3 on their first trip from April 11-16, they’d gone 2-4, 4-5, 3-4, 4-5, 3-4 and 1-3 before capping off a 10-game trek on Sunday. Cueto tossed 6.2 innings while allowing three earned runs and struck out four.
