Rookie Luis González hit his first big league home run--a towering two-run blast--and that powered a dramatic late-inning victory over the Brewers in Milwaukee. Corbin Burnes was as good as advertised, allowing only two hits and whiffing eleven in his 6-2/3 innings of work. The Giants were patient against him despite the lack of results and pushed up the pitch count and forced Craig Counsell to go to his bullpen. Trevor Gott gave up a two-run homer to Joc Pederson in the 8th to turn the game around in the Giants favor but Jake McGee gave up a solo shot to Willy Adames in the bottom half and the Brewers tied it back up. That gave Lu-Gone a chance to be a hero in the 9th and he launched his winner off Jake Cousins. I suppose the Giants were fortunate to miss closer Josh Hader and set-up man Devin Williams who had both worked the previous two games for Milwaukee.
Speaking of bullpens the Giants relief corps delivered another tremendous effort. Sam Long opened and put up a zero in the 1st. He was followed by Dominic Leone who unfortunately sandwiched a bad pickoff throw between two infield singles and the Brewers took a 1-0 lead in the 2nd. It looked like that would be enough but the Giants kept battling. John Brebbia took the 3rd and 4th, Zack Littell the 5th, José Álvarez the 6th, and Yunior Marte had a sterling eight-pitch 7th. McGee couldn't hold the lead in the 8th but Camilo Doval saved it in the 9th. Overall the 'pen allowed five hits and two runs with only one walk and nine strikeouts. Both Brandon Crawford and Thairo Estrada made big plays up the middle to help their guys out. Once again we saw a total team effort. That's four wins in a row, an 8-3 road trip, and a 12-5 (.706) record.
The A's come to San Francisco tomorrow and Carlos Rodón takes the hill at 6:45 Pacific.
Go Giants!
--M.C.
3 comments:
Joc picking up a bit of the home run drought from Ruf, Flores and Crawford. I hope our bullpen will still have arms late in the season.
Two out of five starters out right now. Good thing they have the expanded rosters. Maybe Tyler Beede can get a short start or soak up some "bulk" innings. Jakob Junis looks like he could throw a start or two. But yeah, it's always a concern when guys throw so much early in the year. Maybe by then the starters will be going deeper and taking the pressure off the 'pen.
Amazing that this team is performing so well with all those guys not hitting.
St. Louis having no problem with carrasco of the Mets today. Somehow the giants could not seem to hit him. Maybe he is just not getting that low pitch called for strikes today.
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