by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–A’s reliever Fernando Abad who was not suspended for throwing inside to Baltimore Orioles hitter Manny Achado last Sunday but was ejected from the ball game unlike Orioles pitcher Wei-Yin Chen who actually hit A’s hitter Josh Donaldson a couple of games earlier. Abad didn’t hit anybody.

Yoenis Cespedes: The glove, there’s a famous cartoon character named Orphan Annie in which the character arrived and it talked about things that go bump in the night and I would have to say that sometimes Cespedes’ glove goes bump in the night however whenever you’ve got litterally a guided missle at the end of your shoulder that you can launch it at will talk about compensation.

That throw by Cespedes to nail down the Angels Howie Kendricks at the plate that’s the best right field to catcher throw I’ve ever seen, it’s purely beautiful as the throw. Former M’s outfielder Ichiro made a spectacular throw from the rightfield corner to throw out former A’s runner Terrence Long at third base years ago. It was amazing in it’s own right it was 320 feet in the air.

Basically Cespedes throw he rainbowed it and part of that play a lot of people don’t give enough credit to is A’s catcher Derek Norris who deaked the runner until the last second and just sort of laid the glove out in front of him and Kendrick tagged himself out and it was just an amazing thing to watch. It should be a play that should make Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers proud but it probably won’t he’s got a huge ego but he’s a kid we were all kids at one time.

San Francisco Giants update: Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval who missed Wednesday night’s game at AT&T Park against the Washington Nationals due to sickness. There’s a cough going around and that’s a fact because I’ve got it. Sandoval was reportedly coughing in the clubhouse before the game and he had the cough for about a week and he thought this was a good time to take time off.

He was replaced by Joaquin Arias at third just before Wednesday’s game, the virus that Pablo has, coughing is a part of it and you feel pretty run down. Keep in mind it doesn’t beat you up like the winter time flu does but you would notice it out there if your standing out there in the cold.

Giants pitcher Matt Cain who struggled in the first inning giving up three runs to the Nat’s has struggled and wasn’t getting some of the calls from plate umpire Phil Cuzzi but Cain managed to settle down and he got a couple calls that might have changed things a little bit. You have to give credit to the Nationals for being very paitent waiting Cain out which is not a very easy thing to do considering he didn’t allow a base runner in the proceeding innings until the Nats picked up another run in the top of the fifth to increase their lead 4-1.

The job that former Giant Matt Williams is doing for the Nats: The results are good, the reports are there are things that Wiliams has some things he has to learn yet. Most rookie managers have their challenges, he had some challenges with handling the pitchers and it takes awhile to learn that. Williams had six weeks without the Nats star hitter Bryce Harper in the line up.

Michael Duca does commentary each week on the A’s and Giants for http://www.sportsradioservice.com