Giants vs. Nationals – Game Recap – April 24, 2022 – ESPN

WASHINGTON — — Joc Pederson homered twice, doubled and drove in three runs to assist the San Francisco Giants rout the Washington Nationals 12-3 on Sunday for the sequence sweep.

Pederson moved to the leadoff spot after Mike Yastrzemski was positioned on the COVID-19 listing Sunday morning. He hit a house run to leadoff the sport, a 441-foot blast that is the longest leadoff HR by a Giants batter tracked by Statcast.

Pederson did it once more main off the seventh inning to go 3 for 3.

“I used to be feeling good, seeing the ball out of their hand and simply swinging at some pitches that I used to be capable of placed on the barrel,” mentioned Pederson, who’s hitting .364 with 5 house runs and 10 runs scored in his first season with the Giants.

The Giants are 7-3 on this highway journey, with a sport left to go in Milwaukee on Monday. Wilmer Flores added three RBI singles for San Francisco, who swept a sequence of at the least three video games at Nationals Park for the primary time June 6-9, 2008.

Starter Logan Webb (2-1) struggled early, however ended up permitting three runs on seven hits and putting out six over 6 2/3 innings. He retired eight of the final 9 batters he confronted.

“I simply really feel like I am discovering myself a bit bit now. I do not really feel like I’ve obtained, actually, my greatest stuff,” Webb mentioned. “It is bizarre, like I really feel good but it surely’s simply not there proper now. We’ll look into some mechanical issues”

In his earlier begin, Webb gave up three runs on six hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings in a loss to the Mets.

Washington was swept for the primary time this season and has misplaced 5 straight. Yadiel Hernandez homered, singled and drove in the entire Nationals’ three runs. Starter Joan Adon (1-3) pitched four-plus innings and was charged with 5 runs on six hits.

After Pederson’s homer, Flores later singled in one other run to make it 2-0 within the first. Pederson hit a sacrifice fly within the second, and the Giants elevated their result in 4-1.

“I feel he set the tone for the day,” supervisor Gabe Kapler mentioned of Pederson, “I feel he’s selecting actually good pitches to go after and even when he will get deeper into counts and pitchers have velocity, he’s capable of catch as much as that velocity.”

Hernandez pulled Washington inside 4-3 with a two-run homer within the third, however Flores drove house Pederson within the fifth and Pederson made it 6-3 within the seventh earlier than the Giants tacked on six runs within the ninth.

Washington’s bullpen, which had posted an 0.94 ERA over the previous six video games, gave up seven earned runs.

“Falling behind, not throwing strikes, walks,” supervisor Dave Martinez mentioned. “Hopefully that is out of them immediately and so they come proper again Tuesday doing what they have been doing in earlier video games.”

PEDERSTATS

Pederson hit the twenty fourth leadoff house run of his profession. It was his 18th profession multi-homer sport and first this season.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Giants: Kapler mentioned Yastrzemski is vaccinated and boosted. … OF LaMonte Wade Jr. (left knee irritation) was 0 for two with a stroll and run scored in a rehab sport with Triple-A Sacramento on Saturday.

Nationals: 3B Lucius Fox vomited on the sphere and left the sport within the high of the primary inning. Martinez mentioned after the sport Fox had “a little bit of a abdomen flu.” … OF Victor Robles (tight groin) was out of the lineup. … 1B Josh Bell, who left Saturday’s sport with proper hamstring tightness, was not within the lineup. Martinez mentioned an MRI was “fairly clear” and Bell was seemingly obtainable to pinch hit.

UP NEXT

Giants: LHP Sam Lengthy (0-0, 0.00 ERA) will begin San Francisco once they full their highway journey with a cease in Milwaukee. Lengthy pitched two scoreless innings in his first begin of the season, Friday towards the Nationals.

Nationals: Josiah Grey (2-1, 3.14 ERA) will begin for Washington within the first sport of a three-game sequence towards the visiting Marlins on Tuesday. Grey is 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA in two begins towards Miami.

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