Bochy is in his 22nd season as a major-league manager and 10th with in San Francisco. Bochy has been admitted to a Miami hospital after falling ill an. He is the first Giants player ever to record 7 hits in a game, and the first player to do it in the last 41 years. Check out all of his seven hits below. The last player in the National League to smack seven hits before Stennett?
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Johnny Burnett of the Cleveland Indians holds the major-league record, with nine hits in a single game.
Miami only managed a total of four hits and was 1-9 with runners in scoring position. This team’s dynasty started in 2010, and this 8-7 win in Miami really might be the most memorable regular season win in that seven season span.
Christian Yelich went 3 for 6 with a home run and tied a career high with four RBIs for the Marlins.
Edwin Encarnacion hit his 299th career home run as the Blue Jays snapped a three-game losing streak against the Rays.
Corey Seager: Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager may not have made the All-Star team, but he may have thrust himself into MVP contention. Crawford had two of them.
Andrew Cashner was hardly the only Marlins pitcher who couldn’t get Brandon Crawford out. Crawford struck out after Koehler issued a pair of one-out walks in the first inning. When he and his Miami Marlins teammates returned to Marlins Park to begin a homestand Monday night, Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson was there to collect additional Suzuki souvenirs.
The Giants scored five times in the seventh off three relievers and started the inning with six consecutive hits on their way to a 6-5 lead. Gomez, a former Twins outfielder, let Jorge Polanco’s single skip by him for a two-base error that allowed a run to score. His last hit of the night was a single that was also the game-winning run to put the Giants up 8-7.
Crawford had five singles, a double and a triple.
The Giants (64-49) barely threatened against right-hander Tom Koehler, and unlike Monday night, they could not roar back against the Marlins bullpen.
With Bochy sidelined, bench coach Ron Wotus will act as the Giants’ manager in the series opener versus the Marlins. With Crawford swinging the bat like that this season, the Giants are the top seed of the NL West with a record of 64-48 on the season. Suzuki tipped his helmet to fans in appreciation before grounding out in his only at-bat.
Hunter Pence crashes into a wall in a failed attempt to catch a J.R. Realmuto foul ball in the sixth inning. “He thought he was going to be able to get through the game today, but I think he’s all right”, Mattingly said.
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Giants: LHP Matt Moore (7-7, 4.04 ERA overall) makes his second start with San Francisco on Tuesday after being acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay. Colavito’s Tigers went down early to the Yankees, with NY scoring 6 runs in the top of the first, but Detroit came back in the bottom of the 6th, tying the game at 7.
