By: Joe Lami

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Since 2010, the Miami Marlins have owned San Francisco at AT&T Park with a record of 15-6, the highest winning percentage in past five years.  Saturday night was no different as the fish dominated the Giants, who were sporting their new black jerseys in front of 42,258, as they defeated the orange and black 6-2.

The Giants hopes were high, sending out ace, Madison Bumgarner, to the bump.  However, his night was short lived, pitching only five innings and giving up three runs in the process.  Bumgarner’s pitch count at the end of five was 99, mostly due to his ten strikeouts. “He had good stuff, the strikeouts showed it, but there was a couple of missed spots and they took advantage,” added Giants’ manager, Bruce Bochy. It was the first time this season Bumgarner struck out at least ten.  Bumgarner commented on his high pitch count, “I got to get quicker outs, and just let the strikeouts come to me. I can’t be looking for them. That’s way too many pitches”.

Trouble started in just the third inning for Bumgarner, although he was able to avoid any damage due to a fan interference play.  With two outs in the top half of the third and Christian Yelich on first, Martin Prado hit a ball down the left field line, that ended up being interfered with by a fan near the bullpen.  If the ball wasn’t interfered with Yelich would have been able to score, but since it was, the umpire ruled it a ground-rule double forcing Yelich to stop at third with two outs.  Giancarlo Stanton was brought to the plate, but it was just not his night as Bumgarner mowed down Stanton to end the frame.  Stanton ended the evening with a total of four strikeouts, three of which came from the hand of Bumgarner.

Miami however, wouldn’t hold a gruge against the fan, as they were able to account for all three runs that Bumgarner gave up in the fourth.  The inning started ugly when Marcell Ozuna hit his second homerun of the series on a deep ball out to left center field. Ozona also went yard on Hudson on Thursday. Bumgarner would next walk J.T. Realmuto, who was brought in by Jeff Baker right after on an RBI double.  Adien Hechavarria then brought in Realmuto with another RBI double.

The Giants first run came in the fifth inning as Brandon Crawford hit in Justin Maxwell from second base, where he reached on a double. 

The Marlins were able to add three more runs in the eighth inning, as they strung together three hits and a walk off of Jean Machi.  The third run came off of an overturned video review where Hechavarria was initially called out on a bang-bang play at first, which would have ended the inning.  However, the play was challenged by the Marlins and was overturned to bring in the sixth run of the game for Miami.

San Francisco added one late in the ninth with two outs as Joe Panik roped a double down the left field line bringing in Matt Duffy to make the 6-2 loss look less severe.

The highlight of the game for the Giants came in the first inning on a bloop hit by Oduna to right field, but Maxwell came sprinting in and laying out in a Superman styled dive on superhero night to take away the base hit.

Bumgarner’s record drops to 3-2, as the Giants drop below .500 with a 15-16 record, which was much improved after San Francisco was able to string off 11 wins in 16 games entering Saturday’s game.

David Phelps earned the victory for Miami in his fifth start of the season.  He ups his record to 2-0, while bringing Miami’s overall record to 15-16.  The loss for San Francisco ensures they won’t win the series, as they look to take half of it tomorrow.  The Giants haven’t won a series with the Marlins at AT&T since 2009, and that streak will continue.