And Suarez left a 0-1 fastball over the plate to Matt Kemp, who drove his 26th home run of the season over the wall in straightaway center. “We’ve been playing pretty good but a lot of things haven’t gone our way”.
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“It’s good to take a series here”.
Why so significant? Well, they hadn t won a series at home since the All-Star break.
After back-to-back wins against the Dodgers and the Braves, the Giants sit one game back from first place in the National League West. “Hopefully, we can come back and carry this the rest of the way”.
Panik hit a solo homer in the second and added a two-run shot in the fourth. The second baseman also reached on an infield single in the sixth and had a sacrifice fly in the seventh to match his career high of four RBIs. That’s no easy task for a team that’s been off track since July, but any fan of the San Francisco Giants knows that all three of their World Series wins in the last six years can be defined by one word: torture. But they all came in succession leading off the fourth, and produced the only runs Foltynewicz would need.The 24-year-old, who limited the Giants to one run on three hits over six innings in a 5-3 Braves win earlier this season, almost duplicated the feat in the rematch.He gave up a solo home run to Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, his 12th, leading off the second inning, but limited the Giants to just four other hits before leaving with two on and two out in the eighth.A two-out double by Denard Span and walk by Angel Pagan put the potential tying runs on base in the eighth and brought the hard-throwing Cabrera out of the bullpen.He got Joe Panik to ground softly to first baseman Freddie Freeman to kill the threat.Foltynewicz (7-5) walked one and struck out six in his 7 2/3 innings.
Let’s start with Saturday’s loss to the Atlanta Braves. I’m just really grateful and appreciative to be a part of it.
His first few outings were actually promising, but then against the Pirates on May 17, Blair allowed nine runs in just 1.1 innings.
San Francisco’s four-time All-Star pitched in and out of trouble most of the day but punctuated his afternoon with an emphatic fist pump after striking out pinch-hitter Jace Peterson to end the seventh.
“Just forget about this one and just move on”, he said. “My command was good, just not the first pitch of the at-bat it seemed like”.
Freddie Freeman and Gordon Beckham homered for Atlanta.
The last-place Braves had lost 12 of 16 going into Saturday. The Giants have scored 12 runs in their last three games and four or more runs in seven of their last 10 games.
Blair made his major league debut back in April and has spent three different stints in the MLB this season.
Braves: RHP Aaron Blair was recalled from Triple-A Gwinnet to pitch the series finale in San Francisco.
Denard Span had a second Giants homer in the fourth inning off Braves starter Aaron Blair, and San Francisco piled it on with an eight-run eighth against the Atlanta bullpen.
Giants: 1B Brandon Belt was a late scratch with neck tightness. OF Hunter Pence also underwent an MRI on Saturday for his strained right hamstring. Parker was called up from Triple-A Sacramento before the game. Teheran is winless since June 19.
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Giants: RHP Johnny Cueto (14-4) faces Arizona for the fourth time this season Tuesday at AT&T Park. Cueto has two wins and a 3.86 ERA in his previous three games against the Diamondbacks.
