The locals weren t loving the hometown Giants almost as much, however. It was Kang’s 14th home run this season and third in four games.
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Vogelsong (2-2) pitched around traffic throughout the emotional evening.
“I saw Cervy put the fingers up and threw the first one, then all of a sudden I saw papers flying out of the corner of my eye in the dugout”, Watson said.
McCutchen also drove in two insurance runs with RBI singles in the seventh and eighth. He admitted afterward he was pretty spent at the point he departed, and was still emotionally choked up afterward. He allowed nine hits, three walks and four runs, half the output coming on two sixth-inning solo homers. “I wouldn’t expect anything less from these fans”.
Law hadn’t given up a home run since the Braves’ Freddie Freeman took him deep in Atlanta on June 1 in a 5-4 Giants’ 11th-inning defeat. He always inspires me with his work ethic and attitude and the class he shows through and through.
Vogelsong was a tough-luck loser in his previous start last Wednesday against the San Diego Padres, when he gave up two unearned runs and three hits in six innings while striking out five and walking one.
“No, I shook to it”, Law said. “Hopefully, we’ll be playing our best baseball then”. I felt like I had to, and I appreciate every person who stood up and clapped for me tonight.
After getting a standing ovation when he took the mound for the bottom of the first, the veteran proceeded to give up two hits and two walks, with the run scoring when he issued a two-out, bases-loaded walk to Joe Panik. Andrew McCutchen tripled and scored the go-ahead run on Gregory Polanco’s grounder, and a few minutes later Buster Posey scored from third on Hunter Pence’s grounder to short.
But it all began to turn in the fourth. Pittsburgh has made three errors, but two were unusual (a dropped foul pop fly by pitcher Jameson Taillon and a catcher’s interference on Francisco Cervelli), and none has cost the team a run. With Cervelli on first and Moore near the end of his rope, Polanco teed up a first-pitch fastball from the left-hander and blasted it over the right-field wall for his 17th home run this season.
Vogelsong received a long, loud standing ovation when he took the mound in the bottom of the first inning and a scoreboard salute that read “Forever Giant”.
The Giants, 9-20 since the All-Star break, have been badly victimized by the home run in the second half and this latest game was no exception, Kang’s blast was 41st the Giants have given up in the 29 games since the break while they’ve hit just 23 of their own-and none on this night. It served to finish Vogelsong, even though he begged manager Clint Hurdle to stay in.
“In the beginning I’m thinking he can’t get the ball”, Nunez said. It s what makes sports special, the relationships players can develop with a city. Trevor Brown was thrown out at home in the second inning trying to score from second on a Span single, and Pence was nailed diving back to third after he was held up by third base coach Robert Kelly on a Nunez double to center. I have to give credit to McCutchen. He can make catches most other guys can t.
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Bruce Bochy needs one more win to tie Jim Leyland for 15th on the all-time managerial victories list at 1,768. Bochy said Posey is day to day. The Giants are aware of what they have done and the need to turn it around quickly.
