Jesse Chavez (5-10) went a season-low three innings, giving up four runs and eight hits. Joe Panik leads San Fran with 113 hits and 34 RBI while Buster Posey and Brandon Crawford have combined for 110 RBI.
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Peavy allowed just one run in the first six innings, and he would ve avoided it if Blanco hadn t slowed up on Sam Fuld s foul fly near the line in the third. “Made him work. They had a good approach tonight”. But Marcus Semien struck out on a check-swing to end it. The Giants have won eight straight games when scoring more than three runs.
Sogard’s single against Giants reliever George Kontos scored Billy Butler in the seventh.
We re going to evaluate him when he gets here, Bochy said.
His homer was but a single jab in what turned into a tense pitching duel.
Burns left after the third inning with a testicular contusion, the result of fouling off a ball during his at-bat in the top of the inning.
Saturday saw the A’s Chris Bassitt, recently called up go up against one of the games best in Madison Bumgarner. Rodriguez hit Perkins’s first pitch for a tying homer, and John Ryan Murphy later connected for a three-run shot.
The homer for Bumgarner was the first any A’s pitcher had allowed to an opposing pitcher since 1972 when Baltimore Orioles’ Dave McNally went deep against Ken Holtzman.
Left-hander Cole Hamels allowed just two baserunners as he tossed his first solo no-hitter on Saturday, helping the Philadelphia Phillies blank the Chicago Cubs 5-0.
The A’s would strike back in the fourth inning as Josh Phegley drove in Jake Smolinksi with a double.
Posey and third baseman Matt Duffy scored two runs apiece, and five of their Giants teammates scored once each in the opener of six-game homestand.
Neither team would account for any more offense in the game as the final was 2-1 as Santiago Casilla, another former Athletics’ pitcher match his career high with his 25th save of the season.
A’s second baseman Ben Zobrist singled, doubled and tripled to fall just a homer short of the cycle.
“You could see early on he (Zobrist) was tracking the ball pretty well”, A’s manager Bob Melvin said. This will be Graveman’s first career game against the Giants.
“I was just really pleased he moved the runner”, Bochy said. It took everything I had to get through my throwing program. “If I was cheating I’d hope I’d have a little better stuff than I was throwing out there today”. However, that was all the run support the A’s would account for on the day as Hudson cruised through five innings before handing it over to his bullpen for the 4-3 win. The hit made a victor of Bumgarner, who gave up one run on five hits in seven innings while adding to his legend at the plate. The Giants will welcome the Milwaukee Brewers (43-55) to town Monday night for a three game series before embarking on a 10-game roadtrip on July 31. “He makes a difference”, Bochy said. Ike Davis is hitting at a. 385 clip and Billy Burns.324.
“He had a couple long innings there, but here he gives us a solid outing and seven innings…He had an extra day so I felt comfortable knowing he could get us through seven.”
Hudson earned the win as the Giants capped a sweep of the A’s with a 4-3 victory and, at age 40, now has at least one victory against all 30 major league teams.
The Rangers (47-49) extended their winning streak to four games and kept the Angels (54-43) tied with the Houston Astros for first place in the American League West.
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The Giants have a three-game trip to Oakland in September, but there s no guarantee he ll still be in the rotation then or lined up to pitch that series.
