Taylor Rogers pitching against the Seattle Mariners at Oracle Park July 5th, 2023 (AP news photo)

Wednesday, July 5th 2023

By Troy Ewers

SAN FRANCISCO-In front of a crowd of 24,108 in San Francisco, the Giants played the final game of their three game series against the Seattle Mariners and the ace for the Giants was Alex Cobb, who pitched a phenomenal game. Six innings, seven strike outs and no runs. Cobb in his last ten games is 9-1 and the Giants are now 12-4 when Cobb is on the hill. San Francisco snapped their four game losing streak and can go into their next series with that monkey off their back.

The game itself wasn’t a plethora of runs, but the two runs scored were big for the Giants. In the third inning Wilmer Flores started the rally with a hit that seemed to be an easy ground out, but the ball hit the bag and went over Jose Caballero’s head and Flores gets a single and Brandon Crawford moved to third, he got on base with a walk. Crawford would then score off of LaMonte Wade Jr.’s sac fly making it 1-0 Giants.

The next score for SF would come in the fifth inning when a routine fly ball is hot by Wade Jr. to center, but Julio Rodriguez dropped the ball and Austin Slater scored for the second and final run of the game. When Cobb left the game in the sixth inning, the Rogers brothers came in for an inning a piece and maintained the shutout for Cobb.

The 9th inning came and it was time for the all star Camillo Doval to take the mound and it was a 1, 2, 3 inning with a strikeout to close out the game. This was Doval’s 25th save of the season and he at this point has the most in the N.L. and the second most in the MLB.

The next game for the Giants is against the Colorado Rockies (pitchers not announced yet).