Slater hits tiebreaking HR, Giants beat Padres 5-4
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Austin Slater hit a tiebreaking homer within the seventh inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 5-4 Friday evening.
Slater led off the inning with an opposite-field drive to upright in opposition to upright-hander Keone Kela (2-2). Slater scored three runs despite getting into the game in a 3-for-25 trail, including 11 straight hitless at-bats before the homer.
“I gentle for run feel take care of there’s a range of labor to be done,” Slater stated. “Fortunately it labored out tonight.”
Buster Posey hit a two-scamper homer and Evan Longoria had a two-scamper single for the Giants, who improved to 11-3 at Oracle Park this season.
San Francisco moved 1 1/2 video games before San Diego for the NL West lead as they effectively-known Corridor of Famer Willie Mays a day after his 90th birthday.
Camilo Doval (1-1) pitched a scoreless seventh for his first basic league earn, and Jake McGee closed out his eighth set in 9 possibilities with three strikeouts within the ninth. The Giants had been notably impressed by the efficiency of Doval, who had allowed three homers in 6 2/3 innings getting into the game.
“It became as soon as a gargantuan soar-succor day day out for him,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler stated. “I proceed to deem he has for run honest composure.”
The Giants jumped forward 4-0 on Posey’s homer within the third inning off starter Blake Snell and Longoria’s two-scamper hit within the fifth off upright-hander Austin Adams. Posey’s opposite-field drive to upright became as soon as his eighth homer of the yr, already exceeding his 2019 total of seven. The six-time All-Important person sat out final season on account of household concerns triggered by the pandemic.
Snell lasted 4 2/3 innings and became as soon as charged with four runs.
San Diego pulled even within the sixth. Giants starter Anthony DeSclafani entered the inning with a one-hitter, but that evaporated as Trent Grisham belted a two-scamper homer. Eric Hosmer additionally clobbered a two-scamper homer off Sam Selman.
Mays became as soon as ferried for a lap across the warning tune in a classic, aquamarine blue-and-cream-colored 1956 Oldsmobile. Recorded tributes to Mays from a range of celebrities internal and outdoors of baseball appeared before and all over the game. A partial listing: faded President George W. Bush, baseball commissioners Bud Selig (faded) and Secure Manfred (present), Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Dusty Baker, Orlando Cepeda, Snoop Dogg, Wayne Gretzky, Magic Johnson and Tom Brady.
Barry Bonds, baseball’s all-time home scamper chief and Mays’ godson, no longer most practical taped a video but additionally became as soon as shown subsequent to the “Negate Howdy Cramped one” in his suite as public-address announcer Renel Brooks-Moon led fans in singing “Gay Birthday” before the prime of the fourth inning. Mays obtained a cake fashioned take care of a fielder’s glove with a frosting-lined “ball” within the pocket.
Stated Posey before the game, “For those who explain of the title ‘Willie Mays,’ it’s almost a mythological sort of title. It has the same feeling as a Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: OF Mike Yastrzemski left the 10-day injured listing and OF Alex Dickerson went on it. Dickerson became as soon as shelved with a upright shoulder bruise which he sustained Wednesday at Colorado. Yastrzemski, who omitted the Giants’ outdated 10 video games with a delicate left indirect stress, didn’t delivery Friday but is expected to rejoin the lineup Saturday, Kapler stated. The Giants additionally reinstated left-hander Jarlin Garcia, who had been nursing a strained left groin, from the 10-day injured listing.
Padres: Manager Jayce Tingler stated that catcher Austin Nola sustained a bruise on his left hand when he became as soon as hit by a pitch from Giants reliever Zack Littell within the sixth inning, which compelled him to dart away the game. Tingler stated X-rays had been negative and that Nola would possibly per chance per chance return to motion as soon as Saturday. … Tingler stated that LHP Ryan Weathers threw a delicate-weight bullpen Friday and RHP Dinelson Lamet will throw a delicate-weight bullpen Saturday. The Padres have not announced a starter for Sunday but it’d be either Lamet or Weathers. Both pitched in a 2-1 loss to Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening. Lamet, who had been on the injured listing with upright forearm inflammation, began and went two innings and Weathers, who came out of his outdated day day out with a sore left arm, went three innings.
UP NEXT
The series continues Saturday with Padres upright-hander Joe Musgrove opposing Giants righty Kevin Gausman.
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