Wilmer Flores continues to be Mr. Clutch, driving in the winning run pinch-hitting in the bottom of the 9th to give the Giants a sweep of the Mariners. He tagged Gregory Santos' first pitch for a single to right to plate Luis Matos. That's seven in a row and their 8-1 record (.889) is the best in the NL West, edging LA (9-2, .818) and SD (8-2, .800).
Jordan Hicks was not as effective this afternoon after his great effort in Houston. He struggled with close pitches, Seattle hitters laid off and made him work. He allowed solo homers to Julio Rodriguez and Cal Raleigh. He got one out in the 6th before putting two on and getting pulled. Overall he threw 90 pitches but only 56 strikes. The Giants got a big lift in the 5th with a four-run rally, Mike Yastrzemski hitting a three-run homer. Randy Rodriguez finished the 6th giving up Hicks' third run but closing the door. It was 4-3 Giants and Tyler Rogers and Erik Miller kept the M's off the board until the 9th. Camilo Doval couldn't close it out, giving up the tying run, but a nice play in LF by Luis Matos saved the go-ahead run from scoring.
Yaz walked to open the 9th, Matos forced him at second. A foul fly ball to the right field corner from Patrick Bailey was caught spectacularly by Victor Robles. He got tangled in the netting and fell hard, and couldn't make a throw. Matos scooted around to third base. Robles was taken out of the game. Then Wilmer got his winner.
Logan Webb gets the start tomorrow night at 6:45 PT.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
2 comments:
Matos was sent back to second due to some obscure rule I never heard of. And the rest played out just like you said.
I think it was because Robles went out of play that they ruled Matos could only have one base. It was certainly not something you see every day!
I see Blake Snell hit the 15-day IL. I also see that Toronto gave Vlad, Jr. $500M for 14 years.
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