The Giants felt pretty good after Buster Posey hit an opposite-field, leadoff homer in the 10th inning to give them the lead against San Diego.
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If all went well in Matt Cain’s rehab start he was expected to join the San Francisco club in Boston next week.
“This year’s been tough for him in the sense that he’s got all the potential in the world”, Padres manager Andy Green said to mlb.com. “We kept fighting all the way to the end”. “We had some missed opportunities there. It was a heck of a way to finish”. But Myers was erased trying to score on a grounder, and after an intentional walk to Alex Dickerson, Derek Norris struck out. The pitcher has to make a continuous motion towards the plate, so even though Casilla threw the pitch, the little stutter step qualifies as a balk. Then with the winning run at third base, he stumbled.
Well that’s embarrassing. It looks like Casilla simply caught a spike during his delivery.
Bumgarner “just wasn’t quite as sharp”, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “He was going home and his cleat caught or something”.
You can’t blow a lead unless you have one to protect, and the Giants play a lot of close games. “He did the right thing by throwing the ball, but he stutter-stepped and that’s why it’s a balk”. The organization said it was working hard with ESPN Deportes to resolve this situation as quickly as possible to get games with Erwin Higueros and Tito Fuentes back on the air. “It just didn’t go our way tonight”.
“I couldn’t believe it”, Rosales said about the balk. “I’ve never seen that before”. But any way we can do it, though, right? Jankowski jogged home as Posey hopped in the air and let out a full-body heave in apparent disgust.
The Padres snapped a nine-game losing streak to the Giants, their longest against San Francisco.
SAN DIEGO: Perdomo is a +2.2 in terms of units this season but the Padres are winless at 0-4 in their last four games after allowing two runs or less in their previous game. Pena’s homer was two batters after rookie Mac Williamson also burnt Carlos Villanueva as he delivered a pinch-hit shot, his third this season and fourth of his career. The downside of Arenado’s approach at the plate has been in drawing walks, totaling eight in the first half and three so far in the second, leading to a relatively low.
The Padres already traded closer Fernando Rodney to Miami, and barely 24 hours after Drew Pomeranz represented them well in the All-Star Game at Petco Park, the Padres dealt him, too. He also walked three, striking out just two. A couple of balls left the ballpark.
Bumgarner’s left arm was still rebounding from pitching a one-hitter on 117 pitchers in a 4-0 blanking of the Arizona Diamondbacks Sunday. He struck out four and walked four.
Green lifted Perdomo with two outs in the fifth after he allowed Posey’s RBI double to pull the Giants to 5-3.
Through the first half of the season, the gap between the Padres and the National League West’s top team was never more apparent than when they faced each other.
Johnny Cueto’s loss in the All-Star Game aside, the Giants couldn’t be entering the second half of the season with any more momentum.
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Giants: Cueto (13-1, 2.47 ERA) is scheduled to start Sunday’s series finale. Six innings, four runs, that’s an off night for him, obviously.
