“It’s just little things here and there that’s preventing us from kicking this little streak to the curb”.
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Nunez, picked up Thursday from Minnesota, collected two hits, including a two-run double that ignited a Giants comeback from an early 3-0 deficit. If the triple play wasn’t depressing enough, their lead in the National League West was reduced to a single game when the Dodgers beat Arizona. Here’s more on Saturday afternoon at AT&T Park. Timely and productive at-bats are big moments.
The Giants’ execution failures continue to be manifold, and majority are happening at the plate with runners in scoring position. San Francisco are 2-11 in their last 13 overall and are 2-11 in their last 13 games on grass while the under is 6-2 in their last 8 overall.
Nunez’s debut with the Giants was inauspicious. He gave up three runs on four hits and five walks. For extra emphasis, Williamson slid head-first across home plate while Ryan Zimmerman never thought about throwing home.
In other exciting Giants news-they really loaded a lot into 140 characters on Twitter-Matt Duffy will begin a rehab assignment with the team’s Triple-A affiliate in Sacramento.
The Giants welcomed back Pence and second baseman Joe Panik (concussion) in this series against Washington, and Panik is batting seventh Saturday as Bruce Bochy seeks to ease him back into action. As a result, former National Denard Span ran home from third, thinking he’d scored a run, which allowed the triple play to matriculate. The right-hander said after Monday’s loss he doesn’t have an explanation for his timely troubles. Peavy dropped to his knees in frustration with the call, then proceeded to hang a cutter to Anthony Rendon two pitches later. But once they starting coming, they often were loud.Wilson Ramos ended the no-hit bit one out into the fourth inning with a double.
But Panik popped out to third base, and Brandon Crawford followed with a groundout to first base as the Giants’ best chance to get to Scherzer dissolved. Jake Peavy threw 74 pitches in four innings and wasn’t long for the game even if Bochy hadn’t displayed a sense of urgency and lifted him for a pinch hitter. He pinch-hit with two outs and runners at second and third in the ninth and struck out against reliever Shawn Kelley. Makes you wonder what Bryce Harper was thinking.
Cain has a 5-5 record and 3.64 ERA in 15 career starts against the Nationals.
Derek Law (4-1) pitched the seventh for the win. That’s already more than last season. Javier Lopez started the eighth by walking Bryce Harper, the eighth base on the balls Lopez has issued to lefties this year.
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Santiago Casilla nailed down his 23rd save of the season, and his second of the second half.
