Crawford’s 3 errors vs Yanks send Giants to 6th loss in row

Fowler went 3 for 4 with a walk and scored twice after being sidelined more than a month with a strained right hamstring.

On last night’s episode of the Yanks Go Yard Radio Show, I started off by talking about the New York Yankees (48-47) taking three out of four games by the Baltimore Orioles and going over the latest trade rumors. “Not that (Bumgarner) is a matchups guy. Our bench is deeper now”, Bochy said. Plus, it could be really hot.

In the fourth – you guessed it – the Giants threatened again but didn’t score.

Johnny Cueto was set to start for San Francisco against the New York Yankees on Saturday and Jeff Samardzija in the series finale, which Giants manager Bruce Bochy said was his plan all long. San Francisco will likely play it straight with a designated hitter against Tanaka instead. We’re getting runners on third with one out. “Everybody in the lineup who started got a hit, which is nice”.

The play at the plate was so close that it wouldn’t have been surprising if the Giants won the challenge and had the out call reserved to a run. He is 0-1 with a 6.92 ERA versus NY and has labored in interleague play with a 3-9 record and 5.28 ERA.Nova is coming off one of his best efforts of the season, limiting Baltimore to one run on four hits over six innings to win his second straight start. And it is not, shall we say, a dry heat. Williamson’s clutch hit accounted for just Miller’s second blown save of the season in the eighth. “I think we’re always confident when he’s out there”.

Surprisingly, Bumgarner has never had a chance to face the Yankees in his career. On Sept. 21, 2013 in NY, he pitched a six-hitter. Left-handed hitters Brian McCann and Didi Gregorius are 1-for-9 and 1-for-8, respectively.

Nova is one of six pitchers since 1900 who have thrown at least nine scoreless innings against the Giants but has not looked like that pitcher for most of this season.

NY has won four of five at home, with the under cashing in the past eight at Yankee Stadium. “San Francisco’s going to be no easy task”.

How will Masahiro Tanaka (Tonight’s Yankees starter) do on regular rest?

ASTROS 2, ANGELS 1: Lance McCullers struck out 10 in eight-plus solid innings for the Astros, and Will Harris finished off the ninth at Houston.

Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story slugged two-run homers in the Colorado Rockies’ 4-3 win over the Atlanta Braves, while Coco Crisp singled home the winning run in the 13th inning as the Oakland Athletics scraped past the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0.

TWINS 2, RED SOX 1: Minnesota starter Kyle Gibson put an end to a two-game hitting outburst by the Red Sox, allowing just a pair of hits in the first inning and none over the next seven at Boston.

“I don’t know what other play I had”, Crawford said. “But the bottom line for me is to basically go out there and try to shut the opponent down regardless of the number of off days you have in between starts”. Or do they stand pat and play the cards they have, confident in the belief that the team they have seen since the final series before the All-Star break is the team the Yankees will be for the remainder of the season?

And that thing helped keep the Yankees in it for the eventual win.