Hamilton Homers, Perez Wins as Rangers Edge Giants 2

The Giants’ Chris Heston pitching on Saturday night against the Texas Rangers.

Mark Canha hit a two-out double in the 10th inning to drive in Sam Fuld and lift the Oakland Athletics past the Cleveland Indians 2-1, while Dodgers slugger Andre Ethier hit his second dramatic home run in three innings, a two-run shot in the 10th to lead Los Angeles to a three-game Freeway Series sweep of the sputtering Angels with a 5-4 win. “We’ve pushed the envelop with some high-stress inning with this kid, and we really felt like that he’d gotten us to a point that we needed to get to”. “All the way up and down….”

Texas obtained the Phillies left-hander in an eight-player deal completed before Friday’s non-waiver trade deadline after being agreed on earlier in the week. The runs made a victor out of Hunter Strickland, the seventh San Francisco pitcher of the night.

Pence played college ball just four miles down State Highway 180 at the University of Texas-Arlington.

Andrus hit a two-run homer in the second to put the Rangers up 6-2. 459 over his past 15 games.3. Bochy said Panik might need to also miss Monday’s game. “Our guys did a good job of battling him”. He allowed just two hits and struck out six without walking a batter over his 8 1/3 innings of work. Kela has pitched 432/3 innings in 49 relief appearances.

Like 2008 World Series MVP Hamels, Giants rookie starter Chris Heston threw a no-hitter earlier this season and got a no-decision in this matchup. He pitched eight innings of four-hit shutout ball to defeat St. Louis 4-0 in his last outing.

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Martin Perez (33) throws in the ninth inning against the San Francisco Giants at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Sunday, August 2, 2015.

Then came Mitch Moreland’s two-out single in the sixth, and a 2-1 curveball that Hamilton drove down the left field line. 319 with five home runs and 16 RBIs….

The post Lineup behind Mike Leake as Giants prepare to play in a Texas blast furnace appeared first on Giants Extra. Reliever Tanner Scheppers then allowed three consecutive run-scoring hits to the only batters he faced, and the Giants got even 7-7 on Pence’s single after back-to-back doubles by Matt Duffy and Posey. “Just wasn’t my day”. “But you’ve also got to give some credit to Dyson”. The other was Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven, who threw a no-hitter for Texas in his last start of the 1977 season and was traded to Pittsburgh the following winter. It’s the pitchers they’ve never seen before, he said, that take the buoyancy out of the group.

“Yeah, definitely”, Lincecum said Saturday, speaking for the first time since being diagnosed with a degenerative condition in his hips. The 27-year-old right-hander, acquired from Cincinnati late Thursday night, allowed only two earned runs winning his last four starts for the Reds.

One of the commonly-held truths about returning from Tommy John is it takes a while for your command to find consistency, so maybe that explains the insane up-and-down Perez had this week? In his last two starts since displacing now-DFA’d Wandy Rodriguez, Martinez had allowed 11 runs in nine combined innings, so expectations were set at “manageable” for his performance and I’m happy to say he exceeded those, allowing only a first inning run on a single-single-wild pitch sequence and one in the second on a Nori Aoki double.