HOUSTON (AP) – The San Francisco Giants were confident Hunter Pence would come out of his crisis and begin this season.
The 37-year-old, despite everything, did that in a big way Tuesday night, and helped the Giants beat the Houston Astros 7-6 in 10 innings.
Brandon Crawford hit an unmarried RBI in the 10th inning to lead San Francisco to victory. But before that, Pence, who tied for a 2 of 32 starts, was the one who ran for the Giants.
Houston led four outs in the seventh when Pence, who started his career in Houston, hit a three-run houser with Blake Taylor to reduce the lead to 6-5. It’s Pence’s first house this season.
“We were all satisfied enough with Hunter,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “Obviously, he replaced the game for us and got us back to where we were supposed to be.”
Pence, who added a bachelor in the ninth, said the Giants showed the identity of his return on Tuesday.
“It’s kind of anything we did pretty well here at the start of the season, we scored a lot of problems at the end,” he said. as much as we can. Arrangement.. Just have everyone with that mindset and have drummers.
Austin Slater decided on Cy Sneed (0-3) to start the tenth and send Wilmer Flores to the third after starting the moment under the new rules out of the way. Crawford then continued with his Grounder to the central area to score Flores.
Trevor Gott (1-0) scored a run in a scoreless ninth and Tyler Rogers withdrew two in the 10th best for his first save.
A single driven event through Darin Ruf over Ryan Pressly with a retirement in the ninth draw to six.
Flores scored for the Giants, who broke a streak of six consecutive losses against the Astros.
Alex Bregman scored for the Astros as they lost for the sixth time in seven games.
Houston earned a win in Monday’s first game after wasting five straight games, topped with a 7-2 loss in Oakland on Sunday that was marred by a fight over the bank’s clearing. On Tuesday, hitter ‘Lex Cintron’ coach won a 20-game suspension and a fine for his role in the incident and what MLB said “inciting and escalating the clash between the two clubs.”
Oakland outfielder Ramón Laureano won a six-game suspension and a fine for loading the Astros’ duties to Cintron. Laureano appealed his suspension, but Cintron accepted his and began to comply with it on Tuesday night.
San Francisco starter Tyler Anderson allowed hits and four runs with three innings runs.
Houston rookie Brandon Bielak allowed six hits and two runs in five innings at the time he started the primary league after making two reliever appearances.
Houston manager Dusty Baker lamented his bullpen’s inability to close the game after Bielak’s forced start.
“It’s hard, just hard to accept,” Baker said. “We had the right guys at the right time, but we didn’t do the job.”
Flores gave the Giants a 1-0 lead with a house run in the second.
Martin Maldonado doubled with a punch on the court to score Kyle Tucker, who had tripled, and tied him to 1.
Josh Reddick hit a two-run home run in the middle area with two outs that Mike Yastrzemski nearly endured, but deflected to score 3-1.
There were no outs in the 3rd when Bregman sent an Anderson ball to the left area to enlarge the lead to 4-1.
Alex Dickerson hit a single RBI in the central area with two outs in the fifth inning to reduce the lead to 4-2.
Myles Straw hit a bachelor on the third baseline with two outs in the sixth and Jose Altuve followed up with a bachelor who sent a house run to take him to 6-2.
COACH ROOM
Giants: 2B/INF Donovan Solano ruled out of the lineup as a precaution after experiencing abdominal pain after Monday’s game, manager Gabe Kapler said. Solano is battingArray458 with a home run and 15 RBIs. Kapler said he’d be evaluated Wednesday to see if he can come back.
Astros: De George Springer missed his fifth game with a taut right wrist, but the Houston runner at the base moment in the tenth inning. Baker said Springer would probably start Friday, but he could be in the lineup on Wednesday.
LONG BALLS
The Giants have allowed 29 home races this year, time only for Arizona (40). Tuesday on the 15th consecutive game in which they allowed a house run, which is the longest streak in franchise history.
Following
Zack Greinke of Houston (0-0, 3.00 ERA) will face Trevor Cahill at the end of the series on Wednesday night. Greinke allowed five hits in six blank innings in his final half-start, but ignored the resolve in a 3–2 loss to the Athletics in thirteen innings. Cahill will do his deyet after lack of time due to a nail challenge on his right index finger.
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