Wood dazzles in home debut

SF 5  MIA 3

The Giants made it two straight from the Marlins behind a superb start from lefty Alex Wood. He went seven full innings facing only 23 batters and allowing just one hit and one walk. The hit was a leadoff homer by Jazz Chisolm, Jr., but after that Wood dominated. I like that he works fast. He had seven strikeouts and nine groundouts. The Giants got a two-run homer from Mike Yastrzemski in the 3rd and held on to the 2-1 lead until a 3-run outburst in the 7th made it 5-1. Those insurance runs made the difference. Tyler Rogers pitched a clean 8th and Jake McGee struck out the first two in the 9th. Then Wilmer Flores, playing third base, made a poor throw on a grounder that Brandon Belt couldn’t handle and the Marlins had a pulse. Jesus Aguilar hit a two-run homer to make it 5-3 but McGee struck out Garrett Cooper to end it.

It was a little weird there in the final moments but it was otherwise another good game by the orange-and-black. I should point out that Flores had two hits, an RBI, and a run scored, and has generally looked much better at third base this season. And I think it is interesting that Kapler stuck with both Rogers and McGee even with the four-run lead. Hey, when you have the chance to nail down a win, you take it. Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. I can’t really fault that mentality.

Buster Posey caught his 1000th game. That’s a franchise record, apparently. Wes Westrum is the closest with 902 games. Wow, that’s a hell of a milestone. Congratulations to Buster!

Kevin Gausman goes tomorrow, at little earlier in the evening at 6:05 PDT.

Go Giants!

–M.C.