Stanton offered a true power display, not hitting the ball over the fence, rather breaking his bat on a double over Angel Pagan’s head in left field. Their manager? He watched from a hospital bed.
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“I felt I was fighting my rhythm all night”, Moore said. Crawford had six hits already and the No. 6 hitter, Hunter Pence, had four strikeouts. And he just kept on punching, and punching, and punching until the Giants emerged with an 8-7 extra-inning victory. But he found his stroke in the most impressive way Monday at Marlins Park, tallying hit after hit after hit – after hit after hit after hit after hit.
Giants starter Matt Moore (7-8) allowed two runs and three hits in six innings. The hit also earned Crawford this distinction: the first seven-hit game by a big leaguer since the Pirates’ Rennie Stennett in 1975. The Giants’ previous franchise record was six, last accomplished by Mike Benjamin in 1995. “I was trying to have a good at-bat”. He is 3-0 with a 0.67 ERA over his last four starts. “You don’t quite know what you’re going to get with Tom, and that to me is part of his success”.
Giancarlo Stanton’s RBI double and Marcell Ozuna’s groundout in the first inning provided the scoring the day after a 14-inning game won by the Giants 8-7.
“It’s historic”, Posey said. “It’s pretty cool we got to see that tonight. I mean, that’s pretty special”. He boosted his average from.265 to.278 in the span of one night. “One run, and two RBIs”.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy was back in the dugout after missing Monday’s game with an irregular heartbeat following an overnight stay in a local hospital. The Giants were looking for a spark following their 6-15 record since the All-Star break and Crawford my have “single”-handedly given it to them”.
“Bochy picked a heck of a day to take off”.
In St. Louis, Yadier Molina started and ended a five-run rally in the ninth as the Cardinals stunned Cincinnati.
Giants win 8-7 thanks to Crawford’s 7-for-8.
Pagan had two of the Giants’ three hits.
Perhaps the Marlins will bring out the best in Samardzija. “It’d be mine if we lost”.
With his hit in the 14th, Crawford joined an even smaller club.
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In Oakland, Kendall Graveman pitched seven strong innings, Billy Butler hit a tiebreaking single in the sixth and the Athletics held off Baltimore. He still finished two shy of the all-time record – Johnny Burnett racked up nine hits for the Cleveland Indians in a 18-inning affair in 1932 – but that doesn’t make his performance Monday any less impressive.
