They exhausted their bullpens.
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The Giants have been out in front by their lonesome since May 15.
One night after Brandon Crawford became the first big leaguer in 41 years to collect seven hits in a game, the Giants managed three hits as a team.
The Marlins (60-53) and Giants (64-49) have split the first two games of the series.
It’s the first time in almost 41 years that an NL player has had seven hits in a game – the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Rennie Sennett did it in nine innings vs. the Cubs – and only the fifth time overall in the majors a player has had seven or more hits in a game.
“Exhausting”, Crawford said. “I’m exhausted right now”. He’s a tough out right now and obviously, when you’re getting seven hits, you’re feeling pretty good about yourself.
George Kontos (3-2) pitched two scoreless innings to earn the victory for the Giants, who were without manager Bruce Bochy after he was hospitalized in the morning with an illness. “I don’t want to bother him”. Dee Gordon walked, Martin Prado singled and Stanton hit a one-out double that one-hopped the wall in left field. Hunter Pence also had an RBI single to tie it at 5.
Joaquin Benoit (2-1) worked one inning for the win.
The Giants were out of position players, leaving ace pitcher Madison Bumgarner, a.183 hitter with legitimate power, to pinch-hit with the bases loaded.
“Mac was outstanding”, Mattingly said of McGowan. I mean, sure, there s stress in a lot of the things you do. “In these types of games, you have collateral damage”. “So it’s not a game that you walk out of here just depressed, in my mind at least”. His hits came off six different pitchers. Left fielder Christian Yelich, who had three hits and four RBIs on Monday, was seen with an ice pack on his right ankle after the game.
Will the Giants carry the momentum from last night’s extra-innings win into tonight when they take on the Marlins again at 7:10PM ET? It s a game and they re all trying their best. It was Rodney’s 19th save of the season – 17 of them with the San Diego Padres before the Marlins acquired him as a setup reliever on June 30. So if Monday’s showdown at Marlins Park was to be viewed as an All-Star caliber grudge match, Fernandez made his point in outpitching Cueto by a wide margin.
Yelich finished with three hits and recorded the second four-RBI game of his career.
Dodgers 9, Phillies 4 • Corey Seager hit two homers and Chase Utley and Yasmani Grandal homered once to help host Los Angeles win.
Rocky Colavito racked up seven hits during a 22-inning game in 1962, and then eight years later Cesar Gutierrez went 7-for-7 in a 12-inning game.
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The Rangers had a double steal before Elvis Andrus’ two-run single tied it 3-3. And the final hit, a line drive up the middle with two out in the 14th inning, drove in the tiebreaking run at Marlins Park.
