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East Bay native Tyson Ross, Padres rout the Giants 5-1

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By Jeremy Kahn

Tyson Ross did all the damage by himself, both on the mound and the plate for the San Diego Padres.

Ross, who grew up in Oakland and went to Bishop O’Dowd High School hit an RBI single to snap a scoreless single in the bottom of the fifth inning and the Padres defeated the San Francisco Giants 5-1 at Petco Park Friday night.

The right-hander also pitched six strong innings, as the Padres snapped a 10-inning hitless streak.

Prior to an Austin Hedges hit in the fateful fifth inning, that saw the Padres score the only run that they would need, their last hit came in the bottom of the third inning by pitcher Clayton Richard, who came on as a pinch hitter for Bryan Mitchell, who pitched just three innings in a 7-0 Giants win.

Jose Priela added a RBI single in the fifth, and then the Padres added three more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to end Ty Blach’s night.

The Richard hit off of Chris Stratton was the only hit that Stratton and Derek Law would allow in the game.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Richard became the first pitcher that did not start a game to get the lone hit in the game since June 28, 1935, when reliever Mace Brown of the Pittsburgh Pirates picked up a hit against the Chicago Cubs.

Ross gave up an unearned run in six innings on seven hits, walked one and struck out one and won for the second time this season.

Joe Panik drove in the only Giants run on the evening in the top of the seventh inning that led to the end of Ross’ evening.

Ross allowed a single, then a fielding error by Freddy Galvis and then Panik singled to end Ross’ night on the mound.

Franchy Cordero hit his second home run of the season in the bottom of the seventh inning for the Padres.

Brandon Crawford picked up three hits for the Giants.

Blach went six innings, allowing four runs, three of them earned, and seven hits. He also walked just one and struck out three.

Giants blank Padres 7-0; Stratton gets a one-hitter

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By Joey Friedman
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In their first meeting of the season, the San Francisco Giants shutout the San Diego Padres by a score of 7-0 at Petco Park Thursday night on the backs of pitchers Chris Statton and Derek Law. Hunter Pence and Buster Posey would each collect two RBIs in the win. San Diego position players were held hitless tonight.

In the Giants’ half of the first, they mounted an attack with a Joe Panik walk, an Andrew McCutchen single, a Buster Posey walk, and an Evan Longoria fielder’s choice ground ball to San Diego shortstop Freddy Galvis on the first pitch which turned in a run as Longoria reached first when Galvis took the out at second in Posey. After Brandon Crawford walked to load the bases again, Hunter Pence pushed everybody up 90 feet with a broken-bat RBI bloop single to right.

San Diego’s sparkling defensive play came in the third inning when Gregor Blanco hit with runners on the corners, the Giants up 3-0 with one out and a 0-1 count. Blanco popped up a bunt in foul ground that held in the air just long enough for Padre catcher Austin Hedges to make a diving grab halfway to the backstop. He would throw to first to double off the runner Crawford and end the threat.

The only hit in the game for the Padres came from 34-year-old LHP Clayton Richard who pinch hit for starting pitcher Bryan Mitchell before Mitchell could get his first at-bat of the night. Through 289 career at-bats, Richard carried a .118 batting average. The line drive to right came off starting pitcher Chris Stratton of the Giants in the third inning.

The Giants’ next big inning came in the 6th when the Giants loaded the bases with two out. Andrew McCutchen grounded the ball to third baseman Christian Villanueva, who through the ball in the dirt to Gold Glove first baseman Eric Hosmer who could not dig it out. The ball bounced into the seats, sending McCutchen to second, scoring two. Before the inning was over, the next batter, Buster Posey, would hit a ball on the ground down the left field line, scoring two more, and sending Posey to second. The Giants would load the bases once again before Hunter Pence would fly out to right to end an inning in which the Giants scored four runs on four hits and an error, leaving three on base.

For the Giants, Chris Stratton would pitch seven innings of one-hit ball on 101 pitches. He walked three and struck out four. He would improve to a 1-1 record. Reliever Derek Law came in to finish the game in the eighth, going two innings and striking out a pair. No one could cross the plate tonight for San Diego.

Bryan Mitchell of the Padres got the tough loss after going for three innings of four-hit, five-walk, and two strikeout baseball. All three runs he allowed were earned. His record is now 0-2. Nice relieving appearances for Jordan Lyles and Robbie Erlin were belittled by the four unearned runs that Colten Brewer gave up due to the Villanueva error.

The Giants saw a multi-hit night from Longoria, Pence, and Blanco. Almost everyone who picked up a bat got a hit tonight with the exception of Brandon Belt (who went 0-2 with two walks), Nick Hundley (0-1 in a pinch-hitting role), and Chris Stratton (0-3).

What’s Next?
Ty Blach (1-1, 4.11 ERA) will be on the hill for the Giants in the second game of the series opposed by Tyson Ross (1-1, 5.25 ERA) of the Padres. They will be making their fourth and third starts, respectively at 7:10 pm PT tomorrow night.

 

 

San Francisco Giants podcast with Morris Phillips: Giants have two two-game splits so far on homestand; Diamondbacks take first place team into AT&T for three-game set against Giants

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@sfgiants photo: San Francisco Giants starter Ty Blach makes a delivery against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday at AT&T to conclude the two game series

On the Giants podcast with Morris:

#1 Seems like the Giants couldn’t do much with the Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw, who went eight innings and gave up a run.

#2 Fortunately for the Giants they got good pitching as well from Ty Blach, who pitched six innings giving up four hits and a run.

#3 The Dodgers in extras did get help from their bench as pinch hitter Kyle Farmer, who hit a opposite field double for an RBI to score teammate Cody Bellinger for the go-ahead and winning run.

#4 This was a tightly-played series between the two rival teams with both games of the rain shortened two-game series going extra innings.

#5 The Arizona Diamondbacks (7-2)–first place in the NL West–open a three-game series at AT&T Park tonight as this will be another test for San Francisco, who will try and use a strong offensive line up against the competitive D-Backs.

Morris Phillips does the San Francisco Giants podcasts each Monday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

McCutchen walks it off in the bottom of the 14th in Giants’ 7-5 win over Dodgers

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By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO — Welcome to one of the biggest rivalries in all of major league baseball, Andrew McCutchen of the San Francisco Giants.

McCutchen hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the 14th inning, helping the Giants defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-5 before a sellout crowd of 42,302 at AT&T Park Saturday.

It was the sixth hit of the game for McCutchen, whose previous career high was five that he picked up on May 14, 2010, while playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.

The three-run home run by McCutchen capped a 12-pitch at-bat against Wilmer Font to give the Giants a dramatic come-from-behind victory.

McCutchen was down 1-2 against Font and then fouled off seven consecutive pitches, and then on the 12th pitch of the at-bat he launched the pitch into the left-center field seats for the victory.

Kelby Tomlinson and Joe Panik each singled off of Font before McCutchen’s first home run as a member of the Giants.

“I was just trying to fight him off, fight him off, until I got comfortable enough to whatever he threw up there I was ready to hit,” McCutchen said. “He didn’t elevate it too much there, and I was able to elevate.”

It was a four-RBI game for McCutchen, who saw his batting average raise from .083 to .258.

“Finally showed up today. Finally,” McCutchen said. “It’s only what, Game 7, but when you’re not getting hits, it feels like it’s forever. Feels good to show up today and do the job.”

Buster Posey also hit his first home run of the season for the Giants, as they improved to 4-3 on the young season, while the reigning National League Champion Dodgers fell to 2-6 on the season, their worst start in 42 years.

The Giants led on three different occasions, as they led 1-0, 3-1 and 4-3; however, the Dodgers tied it up every time and took the lead for the only time in the top of the 14th inning.

Roberto Gomez pitched the 14th inning to pick-up his first major league win, as the Giants used all nine relievers.

The Dodgers took their only lead of the game in the top of the 14th, as Logan Forsythe drove in Yasiel Puig with a single.

After just the sixth rainout in the history of AT&T Park, and first since April 11, 2006, the two old rivals played a 14th inning, five hour 16-minute game that started at 3:05 (local time) and ended at 8:21 (local time).

Font was the last reliever for the Dodgers, as manager Dave Roberts used Clayton Kershaw and Hyun-Jin Ryu as pinch hitters.

Chase Utley tied up the game in the top of the seventh inning, as he launched a pitch that landed on the arcade in right field. Utley’s double play mate, Corey Seager picked up two hits and reached five times and Rookie of the Year Cody Bellinger also picked up two hits.

“We just came up short again,” Roberts said. “That’s five runs in 14 innings. You have to look at each at-bat and the quality needs to get better. There needs to be a better pitch-to-pitch focus.”

Chris Stratton pitched five innings for the Giants, as he gave up two runs and walked four in a no-decision.

Veteran Rich Hill gave up three runs on five hits, while walking just two and striking out six.

NOTES: Kershaw, who came up as a pinch hitter will start the brief two-game series finale on Sunday for the Dodgers. Ty Blach will take the mound for the Giants in a rematch for opening day at Dodger Stadium.

The Giants struck out 18 times against Dodgers, tied for the second most in team history. This was the second time in team history that they struck out 18 times in the same game.

They struck out 18 times on September 1, 1967 against the Cincinnati Reds, and it ties the most ever against the Dodgers, as the Dodgers also did to the Giants on August 31, 1959.

The San Diego Padres struck out 20 Giants on June 18, 2001.

UP NEXT: The Giants and Dodgers conclude the series Sunday afternoon at 1:05 pm PT.

SF Giants’ series opener against Dodgers postponed due to rain; make up doubleheader Apr 28th

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By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO — It does not happen to the San Francisco Giants in the Bay Area often, but it happened in the first two weeks of the season.

The Giants’ series opener against the defending National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers is being postponed due to rain.

With the rainout tonight, tomorrow’s game will now begin at 3:05 pm instead of the scheduled 1:05 pm start due to the weather. Derek Holland will start for the Giants, as his home debut will be pushed back one day.

The makeup game between the Giants and Dodgers will now be part of a day-night doubleheader that will take place on Saturday April 28, as the first game will begin at 1:05 pm and the scheduled 6:05 pm game for that night will be pushed back to a 7:05 pm start.

This is the first rainout at AT&T Park since April 12, 2006, when the Giants game against the Houston Astros postponed due to rain. That was the second game in a row that the Giants and Astros were postponed by rain, as the game on April 11 was also postponed.

Since moving into AT&T Park in 2000, this is only the sixth rainout and the second against the Dodgers. The game between the Giants and Dodgers was also was on April 12, 2003.

Other Giants games postponed since moving to AT&T Park came in the first month that the park opened back in 2000, as the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was postponed due to rain with then President Bill Clinton in attendance. Just three weeks later, the game against the Colorado Rockies was also postponed due to rain.

In the 60-year history that the Giants have been in San Francisco, this is just the 33rd postponement. A game on May 1, 1992 against the Philadelphia Phillies was postponed due to a city curfew.

Suddenly surging Giants to face Dodgers again

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By Jeremy Harness

The last time the San Francisco Giants saw the Los Angeles Dodgers, Joe Panik was the only one in a Giants uniform to generate any offense.

The second baseman accomplished a rare feat by hitting solo home runs in consecutive 1-0 wins to start the 2018 season, but the lack of offense caught up to the Giants last Saturday and Sunday, and the Dodgers were able to rally and get a split of the four-game series at Dodger Stadium.

Lefty Derek Holland will take the hill for Friday night’s series opener at AT&T Park opposite Dodgers righty Kenta Maeda, who shut out the Giants over five innings in a 5-0 win Saturday night.

Holland, meanwhile, was on the wrong side of that contest, as he gave up five runs – three earned – on three hits, walking three hitters and striking out four of them.

One thing that is drastically different for the Giants, which was nonexistent in the opening series of the season, is the offense. The Giants split a two-game series at home against Seattle, during which they scored 14 runs.

Even more remarkable was the 10-1 explosion Wednesday afternoon, most of those runs coming against Seattle ace Felix Hernandez. The day was punctuated in the fifth inning, when Pablo Sandoval, noticeably trimmer than his days in Boston, launched a three-run homer into McCovey Cove beyond the right-field bleachers.

Things figure to be a little tougher against Dodgers pitching, as Rich Hill will take the mound for the Dodgers on Saturday, as he faces Chris Stratton. To close out the series, Ty Blach will hope to follow up his stellar effort in the season opener in beating Clayton Kershaw head-to-head, and he will be opposite Kershaw again on Sunday.

Sports Headlines with Tony Renteria: The late Tyler Hilinski’s brother, Ryan, to play at South Carolina; Giants come back to rattle M’s 10-1; A’s attendance can only improve in time

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On the Sports Headlines podcast with Tony:

#1 Tyler Hilinski, the late Washington State quarterback who committed suicide last season in his dorm, has a brother named Ryan, who just committed to play at South Carolina’s football program. Knowing about Tyler’s suicide, should brother Ryan be concerned about CTE issues when playing at South Carolina?

#2 The San Francisco Giants, who lost 6-4 to the Seattle Mariners on opening day on Tuesday, and who were also expected to have pitching issues, showed up the next day Wednesday and got both hitting and pitching to take the second game of the two-game series from Seattle with a 10-1 win. The Giants got quality pitching from pitcher Johnny Cueto and lots of hitting in the laugher.

#3 The Oakland A’s, who drew only 7,000 on Monday night and then on 9,000 on Tuesday, night never have seen low attendance numbers like this in years. The numbers will improve as the week goes on, but Mondays and Tuesdays at the Coliseum will be brutal for the A’s on nights that fans tend to stay away from.

#4  The Sacramento Kings season comes to an end next week. If there was one memorable moment this season, it was the two games where Kings fans couldn’t get in because of the Black Lives Matter protest. The Kings made it clear that they support the protest, but they need to conduct business and had barricades around the arena that allowed only ticketed fans into the Golden 1 Center.

#5 The Golden State Warriors are slowly coming out of their hibernation after having shelved their big four players, who are all of them except for Stephen Curry, should be ready their next game

Tony Renteria does the Sports Headlines podcast each Thursday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

Panik and Longoria go deep in Giants’ 6-4 loss to Mariners

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By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO — After looking fantastic against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the season opener, Ty Blach returned to earth in the San Francisco Giants’ home opener.

Blach lasted 4.1 innings, allowing six runs on 10 hits, while walking two and striking out two, as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Giants 6-4 before a sellout crowd of 40,901 at AT&T Park.

“He made some good pitches,” said Bruce Bochy.

Due to the Opening Day Pomp and Circumstance, the 1:35 scheduled first pitch actually was 11 minutes later at 1:46.

Within minutes of the first pitch thrown by Blach, the Mariners scored four runs on five hits in the first half inning and never looked back.

“Get out there and compete,” said Blach.

The first six batters to face Blach reached base, as Dee Gordon, Jean Segura, Robinson Cano, and Mike Haniger each scored off of Blach.

It could have been much worse, but Andrew McCutchen was able to catch Kyle Seager leaning off of second base and Brandon Crawford tagged him out for the first out of the afternoon.

That first inning began a huge day for Segura, who picked up hits in his first three at-bats. Following hits in his first at-bats of the game, Segura walked against Pierce Johnson in the top of the sixth inning.

Like in Los Angeles, where he hit two home runs in the Giants first two games of the season, Joe Panik continued his assault on a baseball.

Panik gave the Giants their first run since the ninth inning on Friday night, a span of 21 scoreless innings, as he hit his third home run of the season, when he led off the bottom of the fourth inning for the Giants.

“Obviously you want to come away with the win,” said Panik.

Reyes Moronta pitched 0.2 innings, walking two and striking out two, before giving way to Johnson in the top of the sixth inning.

Austin Jackson picked up his first hit in his new home in the bottom of the sixth inning, as he narrowly beat out a Seager throw. Jackson was originally called out; however, after a 69-second review, Jackson was indeed deemed safe by home plate Ted Barrett.

After the Jackson base hit, the Giants reverted back to their futility of the 2017 season, as Panik hit a ground ball to Cano, who threw to Ryon Healy at first base for the second out and then Healy, threw to Segura, who tagged out Jackson for the final out of the inning.

Evan Longoria picked a great time to get his first hit as a member of the Giants, as he hit a two-run home run of Mariners starter Marco Gonzales in the bottom of the seventh inning.

“Couple of things have not gone our way,” said Longoria.

Gonzales ended up going 6.1 innings, allowing three runs on six hits, walking no one and striking out two on his way to his first win of the young season.

Gregor Blanco got the Giants rally started in the bottom of the eighth inning, as he doubled down the left field line. Kelby Tomlinson then singled Blanco to third base, and then Jackson drove in his first run as a member of the Giants, when he hit a sacrifice fly to Gordon in centerfield to score Blanco without a throw.

Panik then picked up his second hit of the game, as he legged out an infield hit that sent Tomlinson to second base, as he was running on the pitch.

After a McCutchen fly out to right field that advanced Tomilnson an additional 90 feet, Buster Posey grounded out to shortstop to end the inning.

NOTES: Prior to the game, the Giants paid their respects to the late San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee, who passed away from a heart attack in December. Former San Francisco Mayors Art Agnos, Frank Jordan, Willie Brown, current State Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, London Breed and Mark Farrell were in attendance. The wife of the late George Moscone, was also in attendance. Anita Lee, the wife of 37 years to Mayor Lee was honored by Giants President and CEO Larry Baer and Giants Manager Bruce Bochy.

In honor of the Giants 60th anniversary of moving to San Francisco, the Giants honored players and managers going back to when they played at Seals Stadium, Candlestick Park and AT&T Park.

Such notables as Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Barry Bonds, Vida Blue, Felipe Alou, Chris Speier, Joe Amalfitano, Dave Dravecky, Duane Kuiper, Mike Krukow, Jeffrey Leonard, Kevin Mitchell, Robby Thompson, Marvin Benard, Robb Nen, Travis Ishikawa, Brian Johnson, Cody Ross, Dusty Baker and special guest Brian Wilson, who in full uniform, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.

From 1958 to the present, over 115 million people have come through the gates at Seals Stadium (1958-1959), Candlestick Park (1960-1999) and Pacific Bell, SBC and AT&T Park (2000-present).

During that time frame, from April 15, 1958 to today. Seals Stadium, in their two years saw 2,694,755, in 40 years at Candlestick Park, 54,134,580 people went through the turnstiles and at AT&T Park from 2000-present, 58,181,967 people have entered the ballpark. That is a total of 115,011,302 that have seen games in the City and County of San Francisco since 1958,

UP NEXT: The Giants and Mariners meet again Wednesday at 4:15 pm PT.

Dodgers get back-to-back shutouts with 9-0 win over Giants

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By Jeremy Kahn

After back-to-back shutouts to open the season, the San Francisco Giants were on the verge of receiving of back-to-back shutouts by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Rich Hill pitched five strong innings, and reigning Rookie of the Year Cody Bellinger broke out of a season-opening 0-for-11 slump to hit his first home run of the season and the Dodgers defeated the Giants 9-0 to salvage a split of their season-opening four-game series at Dodger Stadium Sunday night.

Following their first two wins of the season, the Giants failed to score over the final 18 innings of the series, while the Dodgers scored 14 runs in the last two games.

Chris Stratton gave up three runs in 5.1 innings, as the Giants became the first team since the 1988 Baltimore Orioles to score no more than two runs in the first four games of the season.

Stratton held the Dodgers hitless until the bottom of the fourth inning, as Corey Seager picked up his first hit of the season, and then Yaisel Puig followed suit with his first hit of the season.

The Giants defense got confused after Hunter Pence caught a fly ball hit by Bellinger for the second out of the inning, with Seager advancing to third base and Puig broke for second. Brandon Crawford then threw to Brandon Belt, and without a throw, Seager scored from third base to break the scoreless tie.

The Dodgers broke the game open in the bottom of the sixth inning, as Chris Taylor got a hit and then Puig ended Stratton’s night with a double to score Taylor.

Josh Osich came on to replace Stratton, and Bellinger greeted him with an opposite field home run.

Kike Hernandez put the final touches on the evening as he hit a two-run double off of Roberto Gomez in the bottom of the eighth inning.

NOTES: After a day-off on Monday, the Giants open their 60th home season in San Francisco against the Seattle Mariners, as Ty Blach takes the mound against the Seattle Mariners.

Jeff Samardzija will throw bullpen sessions on both Tuesday and Friday, and then will begin a rehabilitation assignment.

There is no timetable for the return of closer Mark Melancon, who is out with an elbow injury.

Maeda shuts out Giants for Dodgers’ first win of season 5-0

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By Jeremy Kahn

You knew that the San Francisco Giants were not going to go 162-0, and the Los Angeles Dodgers were not going to go 0-162 on the season.

Kenta Maeda struck out 10 over five innings, as the Dodgers scored for the first time and they went on to defeat the Giants 5-0 at Dodger Stadium Saturday.

The fans at Dodger Stadium exploded with ecstasy in the bottom of the first inning, as Yaisel Puig hit a sacrifice fly to score their first run of the season. Matt Kemp hit a RBI single to increase their lead to 2-0.

Kike Hernandez hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third inning to lengthen the Dodgers lead up to 3-0.

The Dodgers scored their final two run of the game in the bottom of the fourth inning, as Gregor Blanco and Andrew McCutchen miscommunicated on a fly ball that allowed Austin Barnes and Cody Bellinger to score.

Derek Holland pitched five innings, allowing five runs (three of them earned) on three hits, Holland also walked three and struck out four in his Giants debut.

Joe Panik, who solo home runs in the first two games of the season ended the game as he grounded into a double play to end the game and the undefeated season for the Giants.

NOTES: Chris Stratton will make his season debut for the Giants on Sunday afternoon, as he will take the Dodger Stadium mound and the Dodgers will send veteran left-hander Rich Hill to the mound.

Jeff Samardzija threw a side session of 20 pitches, and will throw a bullpen session on Tuesday, prior to the Giants home opener at AT&T Park. If all goes well with the session, Samardzija could begin a rehab assignment within a week.

UP NEXT: Both teams meet again Sunday night at 5:38 pm PT on ESPN.