Posey hits 3-run HR, Hudson wins again as Giants finally score, beat

As for Belt, the Giants don’t know if he will be able to play again this season. We explored, and it turns out that Bochy wasn’t talking in hyperbole.

(Spalding, who after a short playing career in the 1870s went on to a fairly successful career in sporting goods, was elected to the Hall of Fame as an executive). “I had some quick innings there and kept the pitch count down”.

Arizona pitchers have now thrown 30 consecutive scoreless innings at AT&T Park.

“I asked him a couple minutes ago if he’s changing his mind”, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. That implies a certain amount of durability, consistency and an ability to adjust – and readjust – to hitters, to have regular success for the better part of two decades. “I’m here to win games”.

“It was amusing “, Hudson said. “I know I’d like to see him”.

For most of 17 seasons, Hudson has done that more often than not.

The Giants had one runner reach third base and were 0 for 5 with men in scoring position, leaving seven on base.

The Diamondbacks improved to 8-1 in San Francisco this season and will be going for their second series sweep of the Giants on Sunday. He said the plan calls for him to make one more appearance after that on the Giants’ final homestand, October 1 against the Dodgers.

Working with rookie catcher Trevor Brown for the first time. For Hudson, it was win No. 222 in the majors.

Alejandro De Aza and Jarrett Parker also drove in runs for the Giants, who snapped a 35-inning scoreless streak at home against Arizona pitching. Brandon Crawford was back at shortstop after missing seven games with calf and side injuries. Is Posey angling to win that race? I’m getting a little exhausted of hearing about how the Giants don’t stand a chance, the Giants are finished, the Giants year is over. “Unless they want to go to a 10-man rotation, I might reconsider”.

Sunday’s game featured some notable action on the basepaths. In three starts this September, he’s given up 11 hits for two runs. But today, all but one of our hits were singles.

“Felt ok, however i lost”, Bumgarner said. “I’m not necessarily a base-stealer”.

“They’re aggressive, so early on that helped a lot”, Corbin said.

Hudson also used a pair of double-play grounders and benefited from a fine play in the fifth by third baseman Matt Duffy, who barehanded a dribbler and made a hard , submarine throw across the diamond. The team entered Saturday’s game looking to prevent a three-game home shutout – it would have been a first since a 1980 series against the Montreal Expos – and, perhaps, they had a little extra motivation with Huddy on the mound. The preliminary word after the game was Perez injured his oblique.

– The Giants have been shut out 13 times this year, four times by the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks, 28-36 against the rest of their road competition, join the 1938 Chicago Cubs as the only teams to shut out the Giants at home at least five times in the same season.