Things Mixed Up. Madison Bumgarner Still Not Traded, Though!

The Giants relief pitching, normally so reliable, let them down.
The Giants defense, normally so reliable, let them down.

The Giants lost, 5 - 4 in a wild one.  The Giants went up 1 - 0 in the 1st on a Yaz sac fly.  The Brewers, or Cerveceros tonight, tied the game in the 5th.  The Giants went up 2 - 1 in the 7th on a Slater double.  The Brewers tied the game at 2 in the 8th, then scored 2 more to go up 4 - 2 with Sam Dyson on the mound.  The Giants tied the game in the 9th on a Vogt single and a fielding error by Lorenzo Cain that allowed Slater to score.  But the Brewers won in the bottom of the 9th.

Madbum back on the mound in his first outing since the July 6 game where he took a line drive on the triceps of his pitching arm.  He did not look very sharp, but he threw 103 pitches, had his velocity and could throw his whole array of pitches.  That sometimes happens over an All Star break, injury or not.  Madbum lasted 5 innings, gave up 7 hits, 1 walk and struck out 6.  He left with the game tied 1 - 1, the run he allowed was not earned.

Mark likes to say, "a run is a run" but today, the earned runs tell a story.  The Giants lost by a score of 5 - 4, but only the 3 runs that Sam Dyson allowed were considered earned  (he gave up 4 hits and did not get an out).  Joe Panik bobbled a ball that allowed Madbum's run, then Brandon Crawford bobbled a ball that allowed the 9th inning run to hang the loss on Reyes Moronta.   Trevor Gott, Tony Watson and Derek Holland also pitched.  The Giants were scrappy.  The Giants didn't get their 3rd hit until the 7th inning.  They wound up with 7, the Brewers got 15.  And in spite of all that, were it not for the defensive miscues, the Giants would have won.  Nothing to do but go out tomorrow and prove that scrappiness wasn't a fluke.