The Giants needed a well-pitched game and some key hitting for a bounce-back win following a bummer of a loss Monday night, and they received both.
From the same guy: Madison Bumgarner.
That was just the half of it. With Bumgarner gone after six cheap nfl jerseys
innings and the score tied 2-2 in the eighth, Andres Torres homered and Buster Posey smacked a bases-loaded double off the brick wall in right field, allowing the Giants to beat the Rockies 5-2 and exhale.
Bumgarner surrendered one run and hit an RBI double that put the Giants ahead 2-1 in the fifth, so forgive him if he was anticipating the first home victory of his career. Problem is, reliever Jeremy Affeldt yielded Melvin Mora's game-tying homer with two outs in the eighth, a rare shot into the arcade by a right-handed hitter.
As a result, Bumgarner got a no-decision but a bunch of praise inside a giddy clubhouse made giddier by the fact the Giants narrowed the Padres' first-place lead to four games, smallest since Aug. 16.
"Guys came in today, and it seemed everyone put that behind us," Posey said of Monday's ninth-inning downer in a 2-1 loss. "You have to."
No ninth-inning funny business this time. Closer Brian Wilson, working on his third straight day, needed eight pitches to retire the side in order.
Torres' homer, his 14th, was high in the night, landed over the right-field wall and Indianapolis Colts jersey
broke the tie, prompting manager Bruce Bochy to say, "I didn't know if he got enough of it, but we were blowing on it."
Rockies reliever Matt Belisle was so frazzled that he picked up Freddy Sanchez's bunt on the next pitch and threw it so high to first base that Jason Giambi didn't budge. Two walks later, Posey - batting sixth - faced Joe Beimel and banged the ball off the bricks.
Within moments, the Padres' 7-4 loss in Arizona was posted on the scoreboard, turning good times into better times for the crowd of 31,099.
Asked about his opposite-field power, Posey smiled and said, "You should ask Mora. He hit it better than I did."
Monday's tough loss brought back memories of probably the toughest defeat of 2009, a 6-4 decision Aug. 24 when Ryan Spilborghs hit a game-ending grand slam off Merkin Valdez at Coors Field in the 14th - after the Giants scored three times in the top of the 14th for a 4-1 lead.
The Giants hope to draw from that day's aftermath. They won five of Dallas Cowboys jersey
six games, including a three-game sweep of the Rockies in San Francisco, and finished the season 21-16. Not good enough for the playoffs, but it showed the upsetting loss a mile high didn't devastate them.
"That was as gut-wrenching as any loss I've been in," Bochy said. "We bounced back from that. That's why I'm not worried about it."
The run off Bumgarner followed consecutive walks and an infield hit that loaded the bases for Clint Barmes, who hit a sacrifice fly. The Giants scored in the first inning when Emil Rogers caught a spike on a shoelace, and balked home Sanchez.
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