The win allowed the Orioles to complete a 5-5 trip, just the second time this season they’ve won at least half their games on a trek. Michael Givens and Donnie Hart held the Giants scoreless until the ninth, when Pagan opened with a single against Brad Brach, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Belt single to center. He was torched by Philadelphia in his previous turn, when he allowed eight runs – four earned – and 10 hits in five innings. 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. The Orioles don’t score runs when Gausman is pitching, they don’t score against lefties, and they probably won’t score much against as great a pitcher as Bumgarner. and even if they somehow do, well, thre’s a reason why Gausman’s road ERA is above 5.
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Baltimore has four players (Trumbo, Machado, Chris Davis and Adam Jones) with more than 20 homers this season, but Schoop leads the Orioles with 12 game-winning RBIs. San Francisco has scored two or fewer runs in 13 of its 25 games since the All-Star break.3.
Schoop homered off Santiago Casilla with two outs after Manny Machado singled and Mark Trumbo walked. But he was pulled after Hyun Soo Kim’s two-out RBI double that got the Orioles back within 7-3.Kim finished with three hits.Seeking a 14th win and first since the All-Star break, Cueto allowed three runs on eight hits in his 6 2/3 innings. “They have a risky lineup one through eight there, they can hurt you, that’s what happened today”.
Pence’s drive off Wade Miley in the fourth inning was his first since May 18, and his first since returning from a two-month absence following right hamstring surgery. Angel Pagan extended his hitting streak to 12 games. “He battled tonight, gave us a chance to win”.
Bumgarner, meanwhile, will be seeking to extend his streak of consecutive interleague starts without a loss to six.
Trumbo hit his major league-leading 34th homer off Hunter Strickland in the top of the eighth inning to move ahead of Edwin Encarnacion, who hit his 33rd earlier in the day for Toronto. She was the daughter of former Giants executive vice president Corey Busch and served as the team’s batgirl from 2000 to 2001. “It’s an honor to watch him post up every day”, Showalter said. He was added to the lineup when catcher Buster Posey was a late scratch with lower back tightness. Starting pitcher Kevin Gausman allowed two hits and two runs while striking out nine over 4.0 innings to take the loss and fall to 3-10 on the season. OF Mac Williamson, on the disabled list since August 1 with a left shoulder strain, began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento. RHP Cory Gearrin, out since July 6 with a right shoulder strain, pitched for a second straight day on Saturday for Triple-A Sacramento.
As for the Giants and their offense, their severe run-producing anemia continued. After a strong 1-0 win Wednesday, they came back Friday and lost 5-2 to the Orioles on the first night of a long homestand.
Giants: Newly acquired LHP Matt Moore will make his home debut in a series opener with Pittsburgh.
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The Giants’ first two rallies were nearly carbon copies of each other.
