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The Padres 22-year old phenom Nick Margevicius--who made the leap to the bigs from A-ball (with one start in AA)--kept the Giants quiet for five innings on his debut. Somehow the Giants conjured up a rally in the 6th: a pesky Steven Duggar led off with a single and went to second on a wild pitch, Yangervis Solarte looped an RBI double, and Evan Longoria followed that with an RBI single. With two outs Joe Panik added another RBI single and it was 3-0, the first lead of the season. Dereck Rodriguez hurled five scoreless but also ran into trouble in the 6th, putting two guys on, and Erik Hosmer's two-run double off Travis Bergen made it much too close.
Enter Reyes Moronta. He struck out the side (Machado-Myers-Renfroe) to complete the 6th and notched two more strikeouts in the 7th to keep it 3-2 Giants. Wow! Tony Watson threw a scoreless 8th and Will Smith a two-strikeout 9th to close it.
The Padres have another phenom pitching tomorrow, 23-year old Chris Paddack, he'll go against Jeff Samardzija (1:10 Pacific). It sure is nice to see the team in the win column, let's hope they keep it up.
GO GIANTS!
--M.C.
3 comments:
I suspect that the Giants wins this season will mostly be similar to this - stud pitching and just enough scoring to eke out a W. We have the relief staff to do it, and at least Madbum and DRod are up to the task as starters. I think Derek Holland is too. Moronta, Dyson, Smith, Melancon, Watson - that looks like our strength.
I was very pleased with the game last night. We got lots of hits. Moronta was amazing, as was the rest of the bullpen. As I recall, we did pretty well in the past with a lot of pesky hitting combined with a kickass bullpen. Go Giants!
And they have Ray Black with his 100-mph fastball stashed in AAA along with Ty Blach, Tyler Beede, Andrew Suarez, and Shaun Anderson. There's some nice depth in the system and I expect to see all those guys at some point in the season.
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