The Giants (65-49) have seen their advantage over the Dodgers for first place in the NL West reduced to just one game after recording a dismal 8-16 mark in the second half of the season so far, but seem to be breaking out of the slump by posting a decent 5-5 record over their last ten.
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He threw five no-hit innings against the Nationals in a 3-1 home win on July 31, then allowed five hits in five more shutout innings in a rematch last Saturday, a game the Giants won 7-1. Twenty-seven games into it, they still await the moment of the shift in fortune after blowing a 7-1 lead against the Baltimore Orioles.
Bundy has struck out at least seven in each of his last three starts. “I felt more comfortable mechanically seeing the ball…hopefully now I can ride that wave a little bit”. He gave up eight hits and one walk, striking out one.Pagan had a pair of doubles and Eduardo Nunez and Brandon Crawford scored twice apiece for the Giants, who have won just one series since the All-Star break.Jones drove in two runs and Machado had two hits for the Orioles.NOTES: Giants C Buster Posey was in manager Bruce Bochy’s original starting lineup, but was scratched about a half hour before game time because of lower-back tightness. San Francisco managed just five hits, and it was the 13th time in 25 games since the break that the Giants scored two runs or fewer. Both came with two outs. Showalter said. “They say its nonreviewable once he made an attempt at it, so there was no challenge, and we were told it was nonreviewable”.
“It’s something to build on”, said Bochy. They didn’t even have to change hotels after finishing off a four-game series in Oakland with a 9-6 win on Thursday. I’m just saying that losing to Bumgarner is different than losing to some jabroni like Ross Detwiler or Zach Neal.
On the other side, the Orioles have a record of 21-30 when they are the underdog and are +1,229 overall with the money line. How do you even walk six guys in four innings if your name isn’t Ubaldo Jimenez? “He wasn’t the only one”.
On Saturday, the Orioles put runners in scoring position in the second, third and sixth innings against Bumgarner, but were 0-for-4 in those situations.
Santiago Casilla faced one batter to get his 27th save. The Giants have allowed seven runs in their last three games and four or more runs in five of their last 10 games. Thompson ended an Olympic-long slump with seven three-pointers and 30 points, and the Americans needed nearly all of them to hold off France 100-97 to finish pool play 5-0. “I didn’t think it was going to be that big of a deal, but for it to take three years, it feels good”.
“He’s been so good for us, he deserves some runs on the board.”
“He pitched his tail off for us tonight, so definitely a good win all the way around”. The legendary spitballer was a five-time All-Star and two-time Cy Young Award victor.
In the bottom half of the inning, the Giants couldn’t respond Sunday at AT&T Park. Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal and Orlando Cepeda were all on hand, as well as several other former teammates, to take part in the ceremony.
Orioles: RHP Darren O’Day was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a right rotator cuff strain. O’Day received a cortisone shot in his shoulder Saturday. The Orioles called up RHP Tyler Wilson from Triple-A Norfolk in a corresponding move. He is the only major-leaguer to have played every inning of every one of his team’s games this season.
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Despite stringing together a decent run of results as of late, Gausman is still searching for his first road win of the campaign and owns a 0-8 record with a 5.37 ERA away from Camden Yards to date. The Giants have lost his last five starts, including a 1-0 complete game defeat at Washington last Sunday. Casilla now has a 3.28 ERA on the year, though this was his first blown save in a month. Madison Bumgarner takes the hill, and he’s 10-7 with a 2.20 ERA and 181 strikeouts this season.
