Giants eke out a win

SF 3  SD 2

Logan Webb gave up a lot of contact today—12 groundouts and 10 hits, nine of them singles—but didn’t walk anyone and kept the ball in the yard. He got 21 outs and gave up two runs. It looked like that would be enough for San Diego to take the rubber match. But the over-matched Giants lineup got some help from Padres shortstop Ha-Seong Kim who made errors in the 6th and the 8th that led to runs. It was enough to overcome an otherwise feeble offensive effort.

A struggling Jung-Hoo Lee reached base leading off the 6th on Kim’s first error, a bad throw. With the bases loaded and one out an infield chopper from Matt Chapman plated the run. In the 8th Wilmer Flores (pinch-hitting for LaMonte Wade, Jr.) singled with one out. Tyler Fitzgerald, pinch-running, raced to third on a blooper from Jorge Soler, just beating Fernando Tatis’ throw. Michael Conforto hit a grounder to first and Jake Cronenworth stepped on the bag for the second out and threw to second for the tag play to end the inning. Kim then missed the ball for his second error. Fitzgerald scored and Soler, who never stopped running, made it to third. Giants finally had a little luck go their way. They capitalized on the break with a hit from Chapman that scored the go-ahead run.

Ryan Walker looked really good in a scoreless 8th and Camilo Doval struck out two batters in the 9th, gave up a hit, then got a strikeout to end it.

We finally get to see Thirty-million Dollar Man Blake Snell. He’s listed as the starter tomorrow night (6:45 Pacific) against the visiting Washington Nationals.

Go Giants!

–M.C.