Major League Baseball Free Pick Giants vs. Pirates Predictions, Betting Odds & Totals

Beginning pitcher Mike Leake stated his left hamstring is feeling a lot better after a couple of further days of relaxation, and he is on track to pitch one of many weekend video games in Pittsburgh.

Marlon Byrd slammed a two-run homer in his first at-bat as a Giant and had three hits Friday night, backing another strong pitching effort by Madison Bumgarner in a 6-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park.

McCutchen had two more hits and a walk Wednesday as the Pirates beat Arizona 4-1 to take two of three. The right-hander was pulled in the seventh inning with a four-run lead after the Giants loaded the bases with two outs.

Hughes worked a 2-2 count on Gregor Blanco and got him to line out to Polanco to end the inning.

“All I want at this (stage) of my career”, he said, “is just to see this team win”.

Bumgarner chose a good time for his surge. 440 against his sinker, his primary pitch, so he tried to jam them with inside fastballs and loopy curves. 292 against Morton, however, they went just 1-for-10 against him on Thursday. “But he always does a little bit of that, mixing pitches”. It’s quite spectacular to watch a pitcher be so consistently risky as a batter, and even more spectacular to realize that pitchers still haven’t figured him out. Hurdle would only say, “We’ve got a plan”, and that he’d rather share it first with the players themselves than with the public. The Giants really need a good two weeks, but it will be a tough start. Walker’s sixth inning home run with Jung Ho Kang aboard gave the Pirates a comfortable enough margin to keep the crowd involved, but not anxious.

Buster Posey has a. 321 batting average (the highest on the Giants this season) 78 RBIs, and 16 home runs.

Marte reached base in all four of his at-bats. 500 with their seventh win in eight games, pulling within 4 1/2 games of the idle St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Central.

The Giants are still chasing the Los Angeles Dodgers in the West, but momentum is on their side right now. He allowed three runs, six hits, one walk and struck out six in the six and ⅓ innings he was on the mound.

Jake Peavy entered his start against the Pittsburgh Pirates having never allowed a run over 20 innings in three starts at PNC Park.

“What a debut”, manager Bruce Bochy said. “He was throwing the ball well”. That’s not bad.

“We simply could not generate any offense”, Bochy stated. The man has a pair of guns like Mitch, who came over to the Giants during their 1987 division title run in similar circumstances, really helped the cause and wound up staying around awhile. Hitters were looking for the fastball, and the low-80s curveball provided separation in speed.

“We tried to adjust in-game, going through”, Hurdle said. The Pirates open play with one of the two wildcard spots, while the Giants are three games back of the Cubs for the other. Outfielder Marlon Byrd, acquired from Cincinnati on Thursday, is expected to be in the lineup and provide some punch to a Giants lineup that has produced a total of six runs during a 1-3 start to their current seven-game road trip.