![]() Then Junis picked it up and threw in the direction of first base. Third baseman Casey Schmitt let the ball tick off his glove for an error. ![]() Then Betts hit a pop-up that descended in front of the mound.Īnd now’s the time when you’ll want to hold on to them hats and glasses, ’cause this here’s the wildest ride in the wilderness. He began by getting a groundout to shortstop that forced automatic runner Michael Busch to hold at second base. It was up to Junis to hold the Dodgers in the bottom of the 11th while attempting to record his first major-league save. Then Crawford and Austin Slater lined consecutive RBI singles to put the Giants ahead. ![]() Matos, working placid plate appearances that belied the fact he was a 21-year-old playing in his second major-league game, drew his third consecutive walk. He tagged up on Yastrzemski’s fly ball to medium center field, slid hard into third base, and the close play survived a replay review. Not on Bailey □ /VD496BANatīailey made something happen again when he represented the automatic runner at second base in the 11th. The Dodgers probably would’ve pushed across another run and won it in the ninth without the perfect throw that Giants catcher Patrick Bailey made to catch Mookie Betts attempting to steal third base. It was also the only regular-season run the Dodgers have ever scored against Doval (not counting the one that ultimately separated these two teams in the 2021 NL Division Series). The Dodgers collected enough well-placed hits of their own in the ninth against Camilo Doval to score the tying run and snap his streak of 15 consecutive save conversions, the longest by a Giants closer in five seasons. He waved Crawford home on Pederson’s slowly-hit single through a huge hole on the left side of the infield, which resulted in a wild throw to the plate and advanced both runners into scoring position, each of whom would score to give the Giants a 5-4 lead. But it was an aggressive send by third base coach Mark Hallberg that put everything in motion. He continued his at-bat, belted a two-run home run and made the most painful circuit of the bases he’s ever experienced.įlores’ homer gave the Giants life and they completed their rally in a three-run eighth inning that was fueled by three seeing-eye hits, two walks, a hit batter and a sacrifice fly. (Somewhere in the greater Scottsdale area, where he’s preparing to make a rehab start in the Arizona Complex League on Saturday, Ross Stripling must’ve felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up.) Then Wilmer Flores toughed out a foul ball off his foot that was so painful that it’ll send him for a precautionary CT scan. But the moment reliever Brusdar Graterol entered in the seventh, Thairo Estrada greeted him with a base hit. The Giants didn’t get a hit in six innings against a Dodgers right-hander, Emmet Sheehan, who was making his major-league debut. So first let’s clack-clack-clack through the prologue: “That’s not a play we practice,” Crawford said.īefore a roller coaster begins to dip and dive, it must climb the ascent. “First time I’ve been involved in anything like that,” Yastrzemski said. ![]() “The whole thing was ridiculous,” Junis said. If Ruben Rivera committed the “worst baserunning in the history of the game,” as Jon Miller described that infamously jug-headed jaunt on that night in 2003, then try to imagine a play in which Rivera had three or four equally inept accomplices. Giants manager Gabe Kapler watched the replay three times and still couldn’t muster an explanation in his postgame session with reporters. Right fielder Mike Yastrzemski was so proud of the part he played that he tried to locate the ball as a keepsake. Shortstop Brandon Crawford called it the strangest play he’d ever experienced in a major league game. And a wild, wacky play in the 11th that had more twists, turns, thrills and tumbles than anything they experienced at the Magic Kingdom. Then came Friday night’s series-opening 7-5, 11-inning victory at Dodger Stadium. A sizable number of Giants players and their families spent Thursday’s day off at Disneyland.
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