The right-hander faced the Giants for the first time since allowing an National League Championship Series-ending home run to Travis Ishikawa last fall in his first appearance of the postseason.
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The Giants’ Matt Cain ended a run of four poor starts, allowing two runs in six innings, and contributed a bases-loaded sacrifice fly.
“I just need to get back to being aggressive in the zone and not walking so many people and kind of putting myself in corners that I’ve got to battle out of”, Heston said.
Lynn is 0-4 with a 6.18 ERA in six career starts against San Francisco, losing all three in the regular season with a 7.98 ERA.
The New York Yankees were 4-3 victors over the Minnesota Twins while the Texas Rangers defeated the Seattle Mariners 7-2 and the Milwaukee Brewers edged the Miami Marlins 8-7.
“I mean, everyone seems to make it out like I was going out for vengeance or something, like I was after these guys since Day 1”, Wacha said after working seven dominant innings in the Cardinals’ 2-1 victory on Monday night. Sean Rodriguez had three hits and an RBI for the Pirates.
Pence is batting. 275 with nine homers and 40 RBIs.
“It feels good to contribute”, Piscotty said. “It’s just so much fun”. Correa’s grounder to right field with two outs in the inning scored Rasmus to give Houston the victory.
Jason Heyward made his first start of the year in center field, but was taken out after two innings due to left hamstring tightness. “You have to give him a path to slide”.
Minutes after the Giants (64-54) dropped three video games behind the idle Los Angeles Dodgers within the NL West and 4 video games behind the idle Chicago Cubs for the second wild-card spot, Posey lamented his near-miss. He was supposed to be back and good to go for the start tonight but now it should be a worry for fans as there is no real timetable anymore.
In the third, Piscotty got his just due with a solo blast into left; and, nothing Perez could do about this hit, for his second home run in the majors. “I got to help my team win”.
The rubber match of a three-game set between St. Louis and San Francisco at Busch Stadium pits two starters going in opposite directions: Cardinals left-hander Jaime Garcia is moving up and former Giants ace Matt Cain is heading down.
It was the second straight extra-inning win for the Astros who beat the Rays 3-2 on Tuesday. With Pence on the disabled list for the third time this season, the Giants aren’t dealing from strength and any trading partner surely knows this. Unfortunately, Bumgarner struck out swinging and the Cardinals took the rubber game of a hard fought series.
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San Francisco’s Brandon Crawford is aiming for a career-high 12-game hitting streak, but he’s 3 for 12 with six strikeouts against Lynn.
