Rupp homers against Bumgarner as Phillies beat Giants 3-2

Imagine his surprise when left fielder Tyler Goeddel caught a sinking liner from Brandon Crawford, doubling off Panik at second base and effectively snuffing out the Giants’ best chance to get Madison Bumgarner off the hook in a 3-2 loss to the Philadephia Phillies Saturday night.

As they did in the fourth inning, the Phillies waited until two were out to get to Cueto and tie the game in the fifth inning, with Cody Asche delivering a two-run single past Cueto and through the legs of second base umpire Nic Lentz.

Conor Gillaspie followed a double by Ramiro Pena with a double into the right-field corner, providing the San Francisco Giants an 8-7, walk-off win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.Angel Pagan had four hits, scored three runs and drove in a pair for the Giants, who provided manager Bruce Bochy with win No. 800 in his San Francisco career.The consecutive hits by Pena and Gillaspie came after Phillies right-hander Severino Gonzalez had gotten Jarrett Parker to pop out leading off the ninth.The one-run win was the Giants’ 19th of the season.

The first place San Francisco Giants showed the fading Philadelphia Phillies how a winning team fights and perseveres, battling to a 5-4 victory in a weekend series opener on Friday night at AT&T Park.

“He says he feels good”, Bochy said Friday before the Giants hosted the Philadelphia Phillies. “Today was one of the best days I’ve felt since I came back”.

Bochy, who is sitting on 799 wins as the Giants manager, wasn’t about to throw either Panik or Bumgarner under the bus for mistakes made for the right reasons, even if the result turned out all wrong. Bochy, who had 951 wins with San Diego, leads active managers with 1,751 – 16th all-time.

“I think it’s that way every game here, ” Gillaspie said.

The Phillies are 1-7 in their last 8 during game 3 of a series and 1-4 in Nolas last 5 starts.

Giants: RHP Johnny Cueto has a career-high eight-game winning streak entering his start on Sunday.

– If the Giants can avoid extra innings and get a performance relatively deep into the game by starter Madison Bumgarner, the plan is to have set-up man Cory Gearrin and closer Santiago Casilla take Saturday night off. “We came back to play good baseball today”. “Hindsight is 20-20. You’ve got to score on that play to make it a tie game”.

Odubel Herrera homered and Peter Bourjos added three hits for Philadelphia. “We were a little bit of thorn in their side in this three-game series”. Bumgarner’s received four. Despite 40,001 swinging Bumgarner’s in attendance, only one of those actually got to face Jeremy Hellickson, and the 6-foot-5 lefty couldn’t push across another run despite reaching base twice. He gave up two runs and five hits in six innings. He dominated us the first six innings. He had not allowed three earned runs since April 15, a span of 12 starts.

“He’s 22 years old and a full house in San Francisco against a team that’s won (31 of their last 40 games)”.

“I settled down”, the veteran said of shutting out the Giants after the Phillies had fallen behind 2-0 in the third inning. “I always tell Bochy I’m always in my motorhome ready to contribute anywhere in the lineup”.

“I was frustrated at the time, but when the other guy steps into the box you got to put all your attention on that.”

“It was a sinker that I was trying to throw. I don’t understand why he gave me a warning when their pitcher hit our guys three times, also with a breaking ball”.

Jake Peavy got the win against the Phillies, bringing his record to 4-6. He is eligible to be reinstated from the 15-day disabled list and is a candidate to rejoin the starting rotation next week in Arizona.

Andres Blanco was next, and he grounded a ball that just eluded both Bumgarner and shortstop Brandon Crawford, rolling into center field to score Joseph and make the score 2-1. Velasquez had been out since June 9 with strained right biceps.