“It doesn’t happen very often that you get eight at-bats in a game so I figured it didn’t happen a whole lot, but you don’t think about stuff like that when you’re playing”, Crawford said. I d probably be more stressed if I weren t here. Then I woke up to all kinds of texts.
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San Francisco’s Brandon Crawford was the first major leaguer in 41 years to record seven hits in a game.
On Tuesday, he held the Giants to only two hits while improving his career mark against San Francisco to 3-0.
The only major league player besides Stennett to get seven hits in a nine-inning game was Wilbert Robinson for the old Baltimore Orioles of the National League in 1892.
Crawford even added a stolen base for good measure. That s a long time.
Joaquin Benoit (2-1) worked one inning for the win. The Giants didn t get another runner into scoring position until the eighth, when Brian Ellington gave up a two-out single to Angel Pagan and walked Belt. There was no slowing own the Pirates in that 22-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Christian Yelich fell a triple shy of the cycle on Monday but improved to 17-for-40 with 12 RBIs and eight runs scored in his last nine games.TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, CSN Bay Area (San Francisco), FSN Florida (Miami) PITCHING MATCHUP: Giants LH Matt Moore (7-7, 4.04 ERA) vs. Marlins RH Tom Koehler (8-8, 4.05) Moore appeared to suffer from a massive case of nerves in his first start with his new team.
Giants starter Johnny Cueto allowed five runs and six hits in five innings. His last hit came against Reuschel s brother, Paul.
That was some of the best medicine I could ve had, with how hard they fought and the staff, what a great job they did, Bochy said. I was an aggressive hitter. Fittingly, Crawford took an 0-for-4 as the Giants mustered less than half the hits he collected the day prior. He’s a tough out right now and obviously, when you’re getting seven hits, you’re feeling pretty good about yourself. That day, if I made contact, I knew it d be a hit. “I’m not trying to get too high on what’s going on”. But they also had Brandon Crawford in their corner.
Umpire Cory Blaser called Gordon out, but the call was overturned following a Marlins replay challenge.
The Giants remained a game ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who had four homers in a victory over Philadelphia. They said in a statement that he was “resting comfortably” and would be monitored overnight. He hasn t worked with permissive strike zones in either of his two starts with the Giants, either.
Stennett, contacted at home after his golf outing got rained out, asked for Crawford s phone number so he could send his congratulations. When told the Giants were in town another day, and would play an afternoon game on Wednesday, he considered attending.
But Crawford’s performance is undoubtedly more impressive than Colavito’s, which makes Monday’s performance the fifth most impressive seven-hit game of all time.
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According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Giants are -107 money line favorites over the Marlins, although Miami has odds of -103 to win tonight so it’s not as if Don Mattingly’s club is a true underdog.
