San Francisco won 2-1 in 12 innings.
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The Houston High School alum, who has suffered from various injuries over the last two years, hit a 3-run homer and pitched six strong innings in leading the San Francisco Giants to a 9-7 win over the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday night at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
Reds starter Cody Reed (0-5) allowed six runs over five innings as he continued to struggle.
The two-out-of-three series win was Cincinnati’s fourth in a row since the All-Star break.
The Washington Nationals are hot and cold but their record says they win far more then they lose.
The Giants will face three pitchers with sub-3.50 ERAs and winning records in their next three games against Washington, so the burden will be on the lineup to produce a quick turnaround and supply their staff with run support if they hope to win the series.
Giants: RHP Johnny Cueto (13-2, 2.53) will pitch Thursday in the opener of a four-game series against NL East-leading Washington.
“I had a couple of (pitches) toward the end that kind of ran out over the plate, but for the most part I did a better job of limiting mistakes”, Cain said. “Madison, he’s an ace in every sense of the word”.
“Definitely, you take pride in battling against the best in baseball”, Straily said”.
David Dahl hit his first major league home run in his third game for the Rockies. Finally this week, there has been light at the end of the tunnel, with Pence and Panik poised to return within the next four or five games and Duffy almost set for a rehab assignment. He became the seventh Red ever to do so, the previous being catcher Devin Mesoraco in 2014.
That slump went to 2-for-19 after a pair of flyouts in his first two at-bats Wednesday. Conor Gillaspie’s homer was the lone extra base hit he allowed on the day, and his stellar outing lowered his season ERA to a dang solid 3.84.
“He’s got great deception”, Reds manager Bryan Price said.
Bumgarner offered eight innings, five hits, two runs, one unearned and nine strikeouts; a truly Bumgarner-esque quality start Bochy was surely asking for. Alex Colome pitched a flawless ninth for his 22nd save in 23 chances.
Washington was 4-9 in their last 13 road games.
“I can’t say enough about the bullpen”, Bruce gushed. “They’ve had a tough time, but they’ve learned”. Hunter Pence, despite being 8 for 16 with two homers in his first five games for Triple-A Sacramento, will remain on his rehab assignment a little longer as his surgically repaired right hamstring gets used to taking a daily pounding again.
The outing was his 28th straight at home in which he has gone at least five innings and allowed no more than three earned runs. That streak is the longest by a Giants pitcher since 1913.
“We’ve been through this plenty of times, and we know what it’s about”, Bumgarner said of the Giants’ struggles of late. “We’re not getting timely hits”.
Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy smacked his 20th home run of the season in the series finale against Cleveland. But Barnhart coaxed a sacrifice fly to right field and Phillips trotted home with the tying run. Phillips advanced into scoring position on Eugenio Suarez’s liner to left field that was dropped by Pagan for a two-base error.
“We’ve been through this plenty of times”.
“This is the way the game goes sometimes”, Bumgarner said. “Things will turn around for us”.
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Joey Votto had two of Cincinnati’s six hits, extending his hitting streak to 12 straight games since the All-Star break. The 29-year-old outfielder has launched home runs in five consecutive games and has homered seven times in his last 10 contests.
