What we learned when Slater scored Giants’ win against Astros originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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SAN FRANCISCO – Austin Slater singled off Houston reliever Rafael Montero to score a 10 of three runse inning as the Giants rallied to beat the Astros 4-3 on Monday night.
After both teams were able to do a lot offensively in nine innings, both went to work in the 10th.
Houston scored twice off Giants reliever Erik Miller, but couldn’t hold on in front of a cheering crowd at Oracle Park, where the Giants won for the first time since May 28.
Casey Schmitt started the 10th inning at second base and scored on Brett Wisely’s bloop hit to center. After Heliot Ramos reached base with a single, Patrick Bailey singled in Bailey to tie the game.
Michael Conforto then reached base on another Astros error, and after Jorge Soler encountered a fielder’s choice, Slater drove a 1-0 sinker over the head of Houston left fielder Joey Loperfido for the game winner.
Randy Rodriguez (2-1) retired one batter and won.
Before the 10th, the Astros’ bats were kept quiet for most of the night.
Kyle Harrison worked 6 1/3 mostly strong innings, while Sean Hjelle, Ryan Walker and Camilo Doval combined for 2 1/3 shutout innings before the Astros reached Miller, who earned his first win in the majors two days earlier.
San Francisco had its own offensive problems.
Until the 10th, they managed to get only two runners past second base – both coming in the sixth inning when San Francisco scored its first run.
Mike Yastrzemski provided two highlights for the Giants. He drove in their only run with a deep triple in the sixth, then made an outstanding diving catch in the eighth, robbing pinch-hitter Jon Singleton of a hit.
The Giants ended their four-game losing streak at their waterfront ballpark, their longest skid at home this season. They have won six of their last eight games with the 2020 Astros.
These are the conclusions from Monday’s match:
Harrison’s Day finishes in seventh place
Harrison threw his way in and out of trouble for most of the evening until the Astros started getting him in the seventh inning.
Harrison retired eight of the first nine batters he faced, with the lone runner reaching on an error. Harrison then worked his way out of trouble in the fifth after giving up a leadoff single to Jake Meyers, setting up the next three Astros, including a swinging strikeout of Chas McCormick, who whiffed on a bad offspeed throw for the final zero.
Harrison threw just 77 pitches (his third fewest of the season) and was relieved in the seventh after allowing a run and two extra base hits. His final stat line: 6 1/3 innings, four hits, one run, three strikeouts, no walks – was decent, but not enough to get Harrison the W.
Matt is missing
With third baseman Matt Chapman sitting out a second straight game with a hamstring problem, Schmitt was forced into the hot corner and was immediately tested. Astros leadoff hitter Jose Altuve hit a sharp 90.9 mph grounder straight to Schmitt, who bobbled the ball on an error.
Schmitt quickly made up for the miscue by turning a 5-4-3 double play off Houston’s next hitter Alex Bregman. But he came up empty on a play in the fifth when he missed a diving attempt to snare Jake Meyers’ sharp double past third base — a play Chapman has made several times this season with relative ease.
Schmitt, who has played shortstop most of this season, made a handful of solid defensive plays, including in the fourth when he moved far left to get Jeremy Pena’s grounder, spun and then made a strong throw to first base for the third out. of the collection.
Manager Bob Melvin said before the game that he expects Chapman back in the lineup on Tuesday.
Power failure
After hitting home runs in their previous eight games and leading the National League in home runs in June, the Giants’ offense in the series opener against the Astros looked more like Dairy Queen ice cream: soft.
San Francisco scored nine hits, all but one singles.
Yastrzemski’s two-out triple to left-center in the sixth inning was one of San Francisco’s hardest-hit balls and one of the few to make it into the infield.
The situational hitting also didn’t go so well.
San Francisco got runners in scoring position in three of the first four innings, but failed to score.
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