San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb has now extended his shutout streak to 19 innings against the New York Mets on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at Oracle Park in San Francisco (AP News photo)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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San Francisco (12-13). 000 003. 02x. 5. 8. 0
Time: 2:10
Attendance: 25,453
By Lewis Rubman
SAN FRANCISCO–Just before the start of the ninth inning of Monday night’s thriller between the Mets and the Giants, the lights went off in Oracle Park, and the fans were treated to a giant screen video extravaganza extolling the prowess of San Francisco’s closer, Camilo Doval.
It would have been a great advertisement for a time travel adventure film, taking us back to the days of the Roman Coliseum, where a decaying empire distracted the masses with bread and circuses. When the lighting returned and Doval made his real life entrance, his performance didn’t live up to the hype—what could?—although it was exciting.
But that was because Doval’s performance wasn’t very good. He got through the inning without allowing an earned run, but that was because the runner had reached base on a fielding error … by Camiilo Doval, who also unleashed a wild pitch and turned a 5-1 lead into a 5-2 win with the tying run at the plate.
In tonight’s 5-1 Giants triumph over the Met, Doval didn’t made his appearance until well into the top of the ninth .It was Tyler Rogers, who had pitched the eighth last night, who let the Mets narrow a 5-0 deficit to four runs with runners on the corners and only one down.
It was, unlike last night, a save situation for San Francisco’s closer. It took him all of five pitches to fan Joey Windel and get Omar Narváez to bounce out to Chapman, That earned Doval his third safe of the young season
Luis Severino, who started for the Mets, brought a 2-1, 2.14 record with him, which was a considerable improvement over his 4-8, 6.65 with the Yankees the previous year Indeed, the injury plagued Severino was at the tail end of a solid career with the Bronx Bombers, for whom he had been a two time all-star and compiled a record of 54-37, 3.79 over eight seasons.
This evening, he was in top form until the Giants got to him in the fifth inning. He ended up throwing six frames of five hit ball, allowing three runs, all earned, and striking out five. He didn’t issue any walks, and 91 pitches, 65 for strikes. He was the losing pitcher, and now has a record of 2-2, 2.67.
The Giants went with Logan Webb, their interim ace until Blake Snell finds his groove. He went into the game at 2-1, 2.93, and with this win went home at 3-1, 2.33. In his eight full innings of work, Webb shut New York out on six hits and a walk. He struck out four, and threw 106 pitches, 75 for strikes,
When Michael Conforto lofted a TexasLeague single to left to lead off the bottom of the fifth, he became San Francisco’s first base runner. Three Mets already had reached base safely, all on hits, but none had scored, partly because of some dazzling defense especialloy by Conforto and Thairo Estrada.
Matt Chapman, whose work at third would have stood out if it had hadn’t been eclipsed by Conforto and Estrada’s brilliance, shot a single to left that moved Conforto up to second.
After Patrick Bailey flew out to left, Estrada poked a single to left that scored Conforto and sent Chapman to third, allowing Etrada to advance to second on the throw. Mike Yastrzemski brought both of them home with his single to center, and just like that, San Francisco was up, 3-0.
Estrada continued to torment the visitors when he led off the home seventh with a triple off Drew Smith, who had come in to relieve Severino. He scored when Yaz, following him in the batting order, singled to right.
Two outs and a wild pitch later, LaMonte Wade, Jr. smacked a scorcher that bounced off Lindor’s glove at short and into left center field for an RBI double, giving the hosts a 5-0 lead. Jake Diekman replaced Smith and set the Giants down in order.
The score remained unchanged until the dramatic top of the ninth, when Tyler Rogers and Doval squelched New York’s efforts at a comeback.
Before the game, the Giants added right handed pitcher Mitch White to their roster. They had bought his contract from the Blue Jays n Saturday. To make room for him, Landen Roupe was optioned the AAA Sacramento River Cats/
The Giants will for a sweep of the series tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon, sending Blake Snell (0-3, 11.57) against the bay area favorite Sean Manaea, now 1-1, 4.12 for New York.
