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SF Giants begin road trip by walloping Yankees in rain-shortened game
NEW YORK — The tweak was minor. The impact was major.
With Mike Yastrzemski surging and LaMonte Wade Jr. struggling, manager Bob Melvin decided to flip their spots in the lineup. Yastrzemski would bat leadoff; Wade would bat sixth.
The result? Yastrzemski, Wade and Jung Hoo Lee headlined a five-run first inning, one where Yankees starter Marcus Stroman recorded two outs before being pulled. Yastrzemski reached base twice and scored twice while Wade reached base three times and drove in three runs. On a frigid, wet night in the Bronx that lasted just six innings due to weather, San Francisco kicked off its gauntlet of a road trip with a 9-1 win over New York.
Yastrzemski, fresh off hitting a walk-off home run on Wednesday, began the night by ripping a leadoff double on Stroman’s first pitch. After Willy Adames walked, Lee smashed a line drive that kept carrying and cleared the right-center field fence for his first homer of the year, one that gave the Giants a 3-0 lead.
Like the rain, San Francisco’s offense kept pouring on.
Matt Chapman and Heliot Ramos drew back-to-back walks that set the stage for Wade, who pulled a double into the right-field corner. Chapman and Ramos scored, and San Francisco extended its lead to 5-0. The Giants wouldn’t pile on further in the inning but they succeeded in chasing Stroman, who was pulled with two outs after allowing a single to Tyler Fitzgerald. As the sky showered Stroman with rain, the relentless crowd showered him with boos.
With a healthy lead established, the game became something of a race against the rain.
Weather forecasts estimated that the precipitation would really pick up around 9:00 p.m. local time, but the game’s start time was curiously pushed back from 7:05 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Regardless, the Giants needed to only complete the minimum five innings to secure the win. The wet and cold environment resulted in a slog of a ballgame, one in which strikes were at a premium. The Giants and Yankees needed a little over two hours to complete five innings, but they dragged themselves across that finish line around 9:45 p.m. Just in time, too.
In the top of the sixth, the environment was no longer tenable for baseball — not that it ever really was.
Yankees reliever Yoendrys Gómez nearly hit Adames with an errant sweeper, resulting in a mound visit from pitching coach Matt Blake. Gómez followed up by walking Lee and nearly plunking him on the final pitch, forcing the grounds crew to slather the mound with dry dirt. But after Wade drew a bases-loaded walk, the grounds crew rolled the tarp onto the field at 10:04 p.m. EST and the game entered a rain delay. Melvin appeared to plead with the umpires to call the game right there in that moment, but to no avail.
Finally, at 10:34 p.m., the game was called.
Robbie Ray turned in a fine outing given the circumstances, allowing one earned run over four innings with seven strikeouts despite walking four batters. His hat constantly drenched, Ray needed 98 pitches to complete those four innings and threw just 56 strikes. Ray didn’t finish five innings, but got credited with the win due to the shortened nature of the game.
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A California sea lion pup found last week on a San Francisco street corner is malnourished but “active and quite feisty,” The Marine Mammal Center said Monday.
The sea lion, believed to be about 10 months old, had apparently wandered into city’s Outer Sunset neighborhood and was discovered early Thursday morning, authorities said.
The pup was spotted near 48th and Irving Streets, one block from Ocean Beach and Sunset Dunes park. A trained responder from the Marine Mammal Center was joined by San Francisco park rangers and police officers to safely corral the pup, now named ‘Irving’, into a carrier crate.
Dubbed ‘Irving’ by his rescuers, Irving weighed in at 40 pounds and is considered malnourished, the Marine Mammal Center said.
“The sea lion is active and quite feisty which is a positive initial sign in terms of general behavior,” the center said in a news release on Monday.
During an exam by veterinarians, a series of blood samples were also taken to determine whether there’s any underlying ailment.
Irving is being tube fed a fish smoothie blend two times per day to boost hydration and weight; offers of whole herring will also begin shortly.
The quick actions by police, recreation and parks staff and Ocean Avenue Animal Hospital gave the young sea lion a second chance at life, said Lauren Campbell, animal husbandry manager at The Marine Mammal Center.
“As a roughly 10-month-old pup in his first year of learning how to forage on his own, this animal has a long road to recovery due to his severe malnutrition,” Campbell said. “We are hopeful that in the coming weeks with continued specialized care that this pup starts to make positive strides toward recovery and release.”
Irving will be held in the Center’s Intensive Quarantine Unit until clearing medical protocols, before likely being transferred this week to a traditional rehabilitation pool pen. A long-term prognosis and potential release timeline are not currently known.
After Sunday’s 3-0 loss to the Washington Nationals, the San Francisco Giants headed back to the West Coast. They’re going back to the Bay Area, too.
The Giants have a date with the Los Angeles Dodgers for a three-game series at Oracle Park starting Tuesday night.
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So, San Francisco probably wanted to get out of Washington, D.C., with a win. That didn’t happen at Nationals Park on Sunday afternoon.
Nationals reliever Andrew Alvarez, the third pitcher used by the team on Sunday, picked up the victory with 4 1/3 innings of work. Giants starter Robbie Ray absorbed the loss, falling to 2-3 this season.
Ray worked six innings, giving up seven hits, three runs (all earned), walking one, and striking out seven Nationals. If the Giants’ offense had found a way to tack on some runs, then Ray’s outing wouldn’t have looked so bad.
The Giants’ bats, though, had eight hits. The big number for Giants manager Tony Vitello to look at in the box score after this one was, well, pretty big. San Francisco left 10 runners on base on Sunday, going 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position. This indicates that San Francisco had plenty of opportunities to score some runs.
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They just didn’t get the job done.
Let’s go to the bottom of the fifth with the Giants and Nationals in a scoreless tie. With nobody out, the Nationals’ Keibert Ruiz connected for his third double this season. Nasim Nuñez scored to put Washington up 1-0.
With one out, Curtis Mead sent a Ray pitch over the left-field wall, a two-run blast that gave the Nationals a 3-0 lead.
San Francisco had a scoring threat in the top of the eighth inning. With runners at first and second base and nobody out, Casey Schmitt grounded into a double play. Matt Chapman, who was on second base, went to third. But the Giants were unable to bring him home.
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Rafael Devers and Drew Gilbert went 2-for-4 at the plate for the Giants, producing half of the Giants’ hits.
The Giants fall to 9-13 this season, sitting in fourth place in the National League West Division. The Nationals’ record goes to 10-12, good enough for third place in the National League East Division.
All eyes now turn toward Oracle on Tuesday night. It’ll be a chance for two longtime rivals to renew their rivalry.
Baseball fans know that the Giants-Dodgers matchups usually are must-see TV.
That’s probably going to be the case once again as Giants fans watch their team battle the Dodgers. Those lucky to have tickets to the three-game series at Oracle Park will show up in Giants colors, hoping to see Los Angeles head back to Southern California with either a series loss or a Giants’ sweep.
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Buckle up, Giants fans. It’s about to get rowdy at Oracle Park.
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