Vogelsong was announced as tonight’s starter after last night’s game as Bruce Bochy and the Giants elected to delay new Gigante Mike Leake’s return from the disabled list. The team is also awaiting news on outfielder Hunter Pence, who apparently hurt his oblique during the game. “We just try to stay the course with what we think is right”. There was blame to go around for that performance, the defense didn’t do their job either. “I knew he was going to give us some good swings and he did”.
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And apparently Michael Wacha‘s rain cloud fan club was delayed by that overturned truck on I-55 last night and only found their way to the stadium this evening.
Really the only word for Cardinals pitching at this point is faburidicaroflcopter.
In the ninth in to close, Trevor Rosenthal took care of the side which included Giants “Ace”/PH Madison Bumgarner swinging for the third out. “I talked to him yesterday and said he started to feel a little soreness, so I said, ‘OK, tomorrow you’re off.’ I even told him I can give you today off. But he was hitting balls 450 feet (in batting practice), so he said, ‘No, I’m OK, I’ll take (Tuesday)”.
But Lynn looked like Lynn again and turned in a nice effort. Bumgarner came to the plate with two outs‒naturally‒and hit a single on a line drive to left field that was the Giants fourth hit of the game.
The first run was scored in the sixth.
Gregor Blanco and Matt Duffy worked walks after Bumgarner’s hit and Brandon Belt was later hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to score Bumgarner.
The second run was painful.
MadBum dropped a single to LF. The 33-year-old catcher also initiated the scoring in the first with a two-out RBI single and caught Giants second baseman Kelby Tomlinson stealing to end the seventh, doing so from his knees for the second time in the series.
Heston is 0-3 in four outings this month, failing to last five innings in three of them. But that didn’t happen.
RED SOX 6, INDIANS 4: In Boston, David Ortiz hit his 492nd career homer, and Jackie Bradley Jr. and Ryan Hanigan connected on consecutive pitches to lead Boston over Cleveland. Seth Maness then struck out Buster Posey for the final out.
The series between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals is the series to watch in Major League Baseball this week.
The Cardinals (76-42) tied a season high by going 34 games over.
The Giants played an interesting game Tuesday night.
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Before things came apart in the 7th Moss made a nice grab running near foul territory on a deep fly by Lollis. For Wednesday’s game the Cardinals start Jaime Garcia who has allowed 49 hits and 13 earned runs while striking out 52 over 74.1 innings for a 5-4 record and a 1.57 ERA. It’s one of those early 6:15 pm Central starts, so start drinking at work to get good and ready for game time.
