An awesome, awesome team.
And a good day for the Bay Area. The Giants won, too. If the Warriors had not won a championship, I would have titled the post, "Giants Go On Road, Bring Bats" because, you know, that is kind of unusual. But they did!
Steven Strasburg on the mound for the Washington Nationals. He didn't last long, only 2 innings by which time the Giants were ahead 3 - 0, thanks to an Andrew McCutcheon home run in the 1st and rbis from Alen Hanson and Hunter Pence in the 2nd. Andrew Suarez on the mound for the Giants, following up his best performance so far (3 hits, no runs vs Philadelphia). He got into trouble in the 5th, but not before we got to see a Suarez - Suero matchup (Wander Suero was the 3rd Nats pitcher). By then it was 5 - 0 Giants (2 run Hanson home run in the 4th, solo shot from Gorkys in the 5th). By the time Suarez was pulled, Washington had scored 4. Moronta finished the 5th, Melancon gave up 1 in the 6th to make it 6 - 5 Giants, and the Giants tacked on 3 in the 7th to for a final score of 9 - 5.
The 7th inning saw a bunch of hits. Panik doubled, Posey singled, Crawford HBP, Sandoval singled for an rbi, Longoria sac flied for an rbi and Pence picked up his second rbi with a single. That is the kind of hitting that can turn into a good road trip. Suarez pitched fairly well, without the stellar result of his last outing - he gave up some ground balls that could have been outs on another day. The Giants many-headed sort-of-monstrous relievers did their job (Moronta / Melancon / Watson / Dyson / Smith). The Nats used 7 pitchers, maybe that will help the Giants tomorrow or Sunday.
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How the strike zone favored Washington's starting pitcher today, but still teams had to execute. Washington started a lefty, and the Giants started a righty. The giants would have as many righties in the lineup as feasible per Bochy and the Nationals would have as many Lefties as possible. What happened with the strike zone today, was that the outside corner to righties was literally extended to the left hand starter by six inches. But the outside corned to the left hand hitter was not there at all. Of course the players have to execute the plays, but the difference in the K zone could have been enough to tip the game by a run or two. It was a good game. Hundley continues to amaze.
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