The home team ought to have the advantage in extra innings and tonight it worked out for the Giants. They had to face Zack Wheeler to start the evening and they couldn't get anything going against him. They managed to run up his pitch count a bit and he left after six scoreless. A trio of relievers kept it that way through nine. The Giants matched zeroes with a bullpen array: Erik Miller opened, Taylor Rogers took the next two frames, FNG Spencer Howard delivered four more, and Tyler Rogers made it through the 8th. Sean Hjelle became the man on the spot and he delivered two more scoreless innings to see the Giants through. That was a big performance from Hjelle and from the whole relief corps. The lineup left eight men on base and was 0-for-9 with RISP. The winning run in the 10th scored on two sacrifice flies. Luis Matos got the winning RBI.
The Phillies are a tough team to beat yet the Giants make it two in a row to take the series. They have a chance for a sweep! Kyle Harrison takes the hill tomorrow—it's the getaway game, start time 12:45 PT. Phils send out Christopher Sánchez.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
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Wheeler has seemed to earn the reputation to earn a fairly large strike zone. He pitched nicely. Despite Matos, 2 K's he had really good AB's. One of those K's that he fouled off a bunch of 3-2 pitches, sure looked like he earned the walk, but the wrong guy was rewarded. His AB's are good. He also hit one just foul, and just missed one in fair territory, before his medium fly sac fly to win the game. I was hoping Fitzgerald would do it in the ninth, but major league pitching is not triple A pitching.
Yes that was a great AB by Matos and he deserved a walk. I thought moving him to leadoff was a mistake as he responded by going 0-for-12 or something but he is turning it around.
And we were both rooting for Fitz to get the winning hit! At least he scored the winning run.
And it certainly wasn't a "walk"-off. He had to run full speed! :-)
I would have loved to have heard the final call, made by the former Giants (deceased), rebroadcaster Les Keiter. I could hear his call in my head, describing that last play. The excitement he generated is unmatched by any announcer since.
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