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Giants Lose In Extras To Diamondbacks 4-3 On The Skipper’s Birthday

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San Francisco Giants hitter Wilmer Flores rounds third base after connecting for a home run and gets congratulations from third base coach Mark Hallberg against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the bottom of the third inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Mon Jul 31, 2023 (AP News photo)

Monday, July 31st, 2023

By Troy Ewers

San Francisco, CA -The San Francisco Giants began a four game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks it didn’t quite end as planned as the Diamondbacks edged San Francisco 4-3 at Oracle Park on Monday night.

On the mound Jakob Junis for the Giants and Ryne Nelson for the D-Backs. First three batters for starter Jakob Junis went down easily and set the tone for the Giants.

Wilmer Flores then sparked the crowd with a big pop that looked like it was going over the wall for the first run of the game, but Alek Thomas snatched it out of the air. First hit of the game for Arizona comes from Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and is hit straight back at Junis in the leg and shakes him up, but he stays in the game and gets back to back strikeouts to get out the inning.

First hit for the Giants came from Blake Sabol on a chip shot over the head of the third baseman and was followed by a single from Patrick Bailey. Isan Diaz ‘first at bat after being called up from Sacramento results in a walk and bases loaded with Luis Matos coming to the plate.

Matos grounded into a fielder’s choice to stop the rally for San Francisco in its tracks. Flores sparked the crowd again with his second at bat, but this time the homer wasn’t robbed and it’s out of here, 1-0 Giants.

Alex Wood replaced Junis in the fourth inning and continued right where Junis left off. The Giants scored a second run after a rally was started by Sabol who got on from a walk. Bailey moved him over on a double and then a sac fly from Crawford scored Sabol, 2-0 Giants.

In the sixth, Arizona scored two runs to tie the game up. The first came when Corbin Carroll hit a single and scored Ketel Marte, then Gurriel Jr. hit a double and scored Carroll and now it’s tied at two. Camillo Doval came in the ninth, but not for a save this time around.

Doval gets three strikeouts in a row and Giants head into the bottom of the ninth hoping for another walk off. One, two, three inning in the bottom of the ninth for San Francisco and we then headed into extra innings.

Arizona started extras with McCarthy as the ghost runner and Emmanuel Rivera hit a double that would score McCarthy and take a one run lead. 3-2 Diamondbacks. In the bottom of the tenth a wild pitch brings in the ghost runner Brandon Crawford and the Giants tie it up. 3-3.

Lamonte Jr looked like he had a walk-off home run, but it wasn’t hit deep enough and the tenth continued. In the 11th Marte hits a ground rule double that scores the ghost runner Perdomo, 4-3 D-Backs.

Taylor Rogers gets out of the inning, but now it was on the bats to send the fans home happy. The Giants get sat down one, two three and the game ends with Giants losing 4-3. The win is rewarded to Kevin Ginkel, Taylor Rogers gets the loss, and the save goes to Scott McGough.

The next game is Tuesday August 1st with Zac Gallen (11-5 ERA 3.36) pitching for Arizona and Alex Cobb (6-3 ERA 2.97) on the hill for San Francisco first pitch 6:45pm PT.

Oakland A’s game wrap: A’s Lose Game One Of The Battle of The Bay 2-1 In A Nail Biter

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Oakland Athletics’ Seth Brown walks to the dugout after striking out against the San Francisco Giants during the sixth inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Tue Jul 25, 2023 (AP News photo)

Tuesday, July 25th, 2023

By Troy Ewers

San Francisco, CA – Tuesday’s game in Oracle Park in front of 40,014 fans, both the San Francisco Giants (55-47) and the Oakland A’s (28-75) fans and it’s the yearly battle of the Bay. On the mound the starters were Alex Cobb and Tayler Scott. 

A’s started off the game where Cobb struck out the whole side, but Oakland’s starting pitcher Scott pitched one inning and recorded two K’s and one hit, but that was the end of his night and in the second inning on the mound for Oakland was Ken Waldichuk who kept the Giants at zero until the fifth when a sac fly from Casey Schmitt scored Wilmer Flores who got on from a walk. 1-0 Giants.

During the top of the fifth, the A’s fans in the park stood up and chanted to sell the team so that it could be heard by every fan in the park it felt like. The chants died out once a manager’s challenge debating a play at first.

A major moment for Oakland came when Tony Kemp stopped a potential hit for extra bases with a big catch at the wall. After two outs in the sixth Oakland took out Waldichuk and put in Austin Pruitt, who got them out of the jam.

After seven innings, the A’s kept it close at 1-0. Aledmys Diaz pinch hits for Nick Allen to leadoff the 8th and gets a base hit. JJ Bleday hits a single that scores Diaz and ties it up at one. Bleday has seven RBIs over his last seven games.

Tyler Rogers strikes out Seth Brown, but it was a close call, because Bleday also stole second. Pruitt gets taken out to put Lucas Erceg on the mound in the eighth. Mike Yastrzemski comes into the game to pinch hit for Joc Pederson and hits an RBI double that scores Luis Matos. 2-1 Giants.

The last chance effort for the A’s came in the top of the ninth, but the best closer in the league right now Camillo Doval came in and struck out the side and recorded his 31st save which leads the league at the moment.

The next game between these two is Wednesday and the starting pitchers are Hogan Harris for Oakland and it hasn’t been announced for San Francisco. The A’s are now 6-13 in July and this is the start to a eight game road trip. For Oakland after tonight’s loss, they go 47 games below .500, which is the most in franchise history since 1979 when they finished the season 54-under. 

Starting pitchers for Wednesday night for Oakland Logan Harris (2-4 ERA 6.11) San Francisco has not announced a starter first pitch is slated at 6:45pm PT.