Bumgarner homers again as Giants top Pirates 6-4

The Pittsburgh Pirates fell behind early on Friday and never were able to catch up as they fell to the Giants. “His breaking ball and changeup played more”. Gregory Polanco hit in to a double play, and Starling Marte grounded out to second as Casilla notched his 30th save. The Rockies go with Yohan Flande, who hasn’t lost in eight appearances since July 3. Marte got the job done for the Pirates with a fielder’s choice that wound up scoring a run.

But it was his bat that made a bit of history.

His biggest blow came, yet again, at the plate.

“That’s all right”, he said. “It just means I’ve been around a long time”. I don’t write out the lineup. He hesitated for nearly 10 seconds before answering. “That’s not going to change”.

“If you look at this seventh inning, in particular, I was ahead and I feel like I had both of those guys on the ropes”, Morton said.

Click the image above to explore our 2015 season tracker and check out how the Pirates have fared so far, game by game. From the other side, he’s at. He also trails Yovani Gallardo 11 to 12 for the most career home runs by an active pitcher, a milestone he might break by the time this year is up. Marcell Ozuna also smacked a two-run homer and Adeiny Hechavarria went 2-for-3 to extend his career-best hitting streak to 13 games. In six pitches he got Alvarez to ground out to work out of the inning.

Although you could make the argument that this team does not require any reinforcements, they are on the way in the form of Josh Harrison and Jordy Mercer. And he wanted assist to shut this one out towards the offensive-minded Pirates. He’s 3-0 in three outings against San Francisco.

Burke Badenhop (1-3) took the loss.

Mark Melancon [3-1] was the victor and Kontos [2-2] was the losing pitcher. But it took a while.

Bumgarner gave up single runs within the first and second innings however then retired 14 in a row getting into the seventh, when issues lastly began to return unhinged a bit after he surpassed 100 pitches.

“We just couldn’t generate any offense”. “He found his command and, next thing you knew, it was the seventh inning”. Although Brandon Crawford struck out to end the inning, the damage was already done as before the Pirates could even get a chance to hit, they were down 3-0; however, Pittsburgh did strike back with a run of their own. It was his lowest score on the PGA Tour since a 61 in the second round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 2013. There is nothing the Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder thinks he can’t do on a baseball diamond.

“Our approach was good against him”, Marte said. “He attacked us in a different way than we’ve seen before”.

His five homers this year are the most since Carlos Zambrano jacked six in 2006.

Marlon Byrd had three hits, including a two-run home run, in his debut with San Francisco after being acquired in a trade with Cincinnati on Thursday.

“He’s a legit hitter”, Bochy said. “We’re looking to get back into the playoff picture, and that’s what we needed”.