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It’s Beede Time!
Giants past Brewers, take series
San Francisco Giants starter Tyler Beede throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, July 14, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
2019.07.14 – Tyler Beede shook-off some rust and and it was all Beede time, he quickly took control on the mound in leading the San Francisco Giants to an 8-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
Beede pitched effectively into the seventh inning, had two hits and drove in the go-ahead run as San Francisco took two out of three in the series.
“Hitting, bunting, holding runners, fielding your position. Those kinds of things allow a starting pitcher to go deeper into a ball game in the National League,” Beede said.
2019.07.14 (San Francisco Giants vs. Milwaukee Brewers) See video
2019.07.14 (San Francisco Giants vs. Milwaukee Brewers) See video
Beede faced seven batters in the first but held the Brewers to one run. He retired nine of the 10 batters he faced over the next three innings before surrendering a home run to Christian Yelich leading off the sixth.
“He clutched up in a huge way,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “You look at the bullpen usage. We had some guys who needed a break. He was going to be out there, even if things weren’t going that well. We needed length. And he helped himself. He really did a great job.”
It has been an emotional ride for Beede over the past two weeks. The rookie pitcher notched his second career win on July 2, holding the San Diego Padres to four hits and one earned run over seven innings. The start came just three days after his stepfather, Andrew Rivers III, died from cancer in Massachusetts at the age of 52. Rivers had been married to Beede’s mother, Cheryl, for 20 years.
The Giants temporarily sent Beede to the minors after his season-best start as he mourned Rivers’ passing. He spent the All-Star break with his family in Massachusetts before reporting to Double-A Richmond, where he through bullpen sessions on Thursday and Friday before joining the Giants in Milwaukee.
Beede (3-3) gave up seven hits and three runs in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out seven and didn’t walk a batter.
Brandon Belt hit a solo homer with one out in the fifth, his 11th of the season, off Milwaukee starter Jhoulys Chacin to put the Giants in front 2-1.
Yelich’s solo shot in the sixth, his 32nd, pulled the Brewers even before Beede’s run-scoring single in the seventh put the Giants in front to stay.
“The plan was to bunt the whole time,” Beede said. “Then they gave me the swing away sign.”
The G-men might be five games under .500, but after winning for the eighth time in 10 games on Sunday, the Giants have pulled within 4.5 games of the Phillies for the second Wildcard berth.
San Francisco sent 11 batters to the plate in the inning and tacked on five more runs after Beede’s hit to break it open against Milwaukee relievers Corbin Burnes and Matt Albers.
“We’re getting the guys in the counts we want to. We’re just not putting them away,” Burnes said.
Burnes (1-5) gave up four hits and four runs without retiring a batter.
“We have to address things with Corbin,” Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said. “He’s just not doing well enough right now.”
Chacin, the Brewers opening-day starter, hasn’t won since April 30. He gave up two runs and four hits in five innings.
ROSTER MOVE
The Giants optioned right-hander Ray Black to Triple-A Sacramento on Sunday to clear a spot for Beede.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: 3B Evan Longoria left the game in the fifth with left-foot discomfort. Bochy said after the game that Longoria is dealing with a plantar fascia issue and is day-to-day. … OF Alex Dickerson, who experienced back tightness in Friday night’s game, was held out for the second consecutive day. … OF Austin Slater, who got the day off on Saturday until pinch-hitting in the seventh, didn’t start on Sunday after arriving at Miller Park with a fever. He struck out as a pinch-hitter in the fifth and remained in the game.
Brewers: C Yasmani Grandal remained in the game after being struck on the left foot by a pitch from Beede.
SOMBER ANNIVERSARY
A moment of silence was held before the game for three iron workers who were killed when a 567-foot-tall crane known as “Big Blue” toppled over on July 14, 1999, during the construction of Miller Park. Jeff Wischer, William DeGrave and Jerome Starr were killed in the accident. They are memorialized on a plaque outside Miller Park, which opened in 2001, a year later than originally planned.
UP NEXT
Giants: Jeff Samardzija (6-7, 4.01) will pitch the opener of Monday’s doubleheader at Colorado as San Francisco opens a four game-series against the Rockies. Dereck Rodriguez (3-5, 5.27 ERA) will be recalled from Sacramento to start Game 2. The Giants have lost 19 of their last 22 games at Coors Field.
Brewers: Adrian Houser (2-3, 4.01) will make his sixth start of the season in the opener of a three-game series against Atlanta.
Related: See below 2019.07.13 (San Francisco Giants vs. Milwaukee Brewers)
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Giants Even It Up – Brewers Walk It-Off
San Francisco Giants’ Stephen Vogt gets a hit during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Milwaukee. Two runs scored on the play. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
2019.07.13 – Ben Gamel’s pinch-hit double in the bottom of the ninth drove in Ryan Braun with the winning run and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 on Saturday night.
When Austin Slater lined a pinch-hit, go-ahead double into the left center field gap in the seventh inning at Miller Park, it all looked so promising for the Giants.
When reliever Sam Dyson coughed up an eighth inning lead and allowed three earned runs, it all looked quite ominous for the visitors from San Francisco.
2019.07.13 (San Francisco Giants vs. Milwaukee Brewers) See video
2019.07.13 (San Francisco Giants vs. Milwaukee Brewers) See video
Gamel picked a great time to break out of a slump.
“It was a big hit,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “A two-strike hit. It helps us for tomorrow, but more importantly, it’s a win.”
Gamel snapped a 0 for 13 skid and recorded his first career walk-off hit.
Braun led off the inning against Reyes Moronta (3-5) and reached on shortstop Brandon Crawford’s fielding error. After Mike Moustakas and Jesús Aguilar struck out, Keston Hiura walked. Gamel stepped in for Jeremy Jeffress (3-2) and hit a 2-2 pitched into the right-field corner.
″(Moronta) had a really good slider going, so I was just looking for anything elevated in the zone,” Gamel said.
As Braun crossed the plate, the Brewers charged out of the dugout after Gamel to celebrate.
San Francisco tied it with two runs in the ninth off Jeffress. Crawford walked and took second on Austin Slater’s one-out single. Pinch-hitter Stephen Vogt drove in one run with a single to center and Slater raced home when center fielder Lorenzo Cain misplayed the ball.
“I didn’t make sure it was in my glove and took my head off it,” Cain said. “That just can’t happen in that situation.”
San Francisco lost for just the second time in their last nine games and the last eight on the road.
“It’s just unfortunate,” Brandon Belt said. “We fought back. Did the best we could. Pitchers did great. Just ended up losing.”
The Giants went ahead 2-1 in the seventh on pinch-hitter Slater’s RBI double off Alex Claudio.
However, Sam Dyson failed to protect the lead in the eighth. Moustakas, Aguilar and Hiura opened the inning with consecutive doubles to put the Brewers ahead. Pinch-hitter Eric Thames singled to move Hiura to third. Derek Holland replaced Dyson and walked pinch-hitter Yasmani Grandal to load the bases, and Orlando Arcia hit a sacrifice fly to make it 4-2.
The Giants loaded the bases on an error, a base hit and a walk in the first, but Davies avoided putting the Brewers in a big hole. He allowed a sacrifice fly by Mike Yastrzemski and nothing more.
Milwaukee starter Zach Davies doubled and scored in the fifth when Christian Yelich reached on a fielding error by second baseman Joe Panik.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: OF Alex Dickerson experienced some back tightness in Friday night’s game. Manager Bruce Bochy kept him out of Saturday’s lineup, but said that he was available to pinch hit. … OF Austin Slater got the day off, until pinch-hitting in the seventh.
Brewers: LHP Gio González (left arm fatigue) is scheduled to make a rehab start Monday for Triple-A San Antonio.
BUMGARNER GRINDS IT OUT
Giants starter Madison Bumgarner showed no effects of taking a line drive off his pitching elbow in his previous start.
“It’s not completely normal, yet, but it was good enough,” he said. “There’s no pain. It feels normal. There’s still some swelling in there, some bruising.”
Bumgarner left after the second inning last Saturday against St. Louis when he got hit by José Martinez’s wicked line drive. Bumgarner threw 39 pitches before exiting against the Cardinals. X-rays were negative as it turned out to be an elbow contusion.
He threw 103 pitches, scattered seven hits, struck out six and walked one in five innings. The Brewers scored an unearned run in the fifth.
BRAUN TO ATTEND SKAGGS SERVICE
Braun plans on attending the memorial service for Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs on July 22 in Santa Monica, California. Braun and Skaggs worked out together during the offseason and formed a strong friendship. Braun will miss the Brewers’ game against the Cincinnati Reds at Miller Park that day.
Braun and Christian Yelich didn’t change out of their uniforms right away after Friday night’s the game. They sat and watched the Angels’ on-the-field tribute to Skaggs.
“Both of us were crying and emotional watching it,” Braun said. “Whether people are spiritual or religious or whatever it is, it takes your belief to a whole nother level. You know that he was watching it and enjoying every second. That was incredible. It was one of the coolest moments I’ve ever seen in sports.”
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Tyler Beede (2-3, 5.64 ERA) makes his ninth start of the season. The Giants are 6-2 when he takes the mound, including winning four of his last five outings. He’s never faced the Brewers.
Brewers: RHP Jhoulys Chacin (3-9, 5.40 ERA) is 0-6 with a 5.77 ERA over his last eight starts. He makes his first start of the season against the Giants. He is 9-7 with a 3.11 ERA in 21 starts and one relief appearance against them.
Related: See below 2019.07.12 (San Francisco Giants vs. Milwaukee Brewers)
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Giants grab power game from Brewers
Posey’s Grand Slam – Giants grab power game from Brewers
The Giants’ Buster Posey belts a go-ahead grand slam in the 10th inning off Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Matt Albers. MORRY GASH – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
2019.07.12 – Buster Posey’s home run was crushed, a monster shot off the scoreboard in center field for a grand slam. San Francisco Giants grabbed the power game from the Milwaukee Brewers 10-7 at Miller Park.
After the Giants won their seventh in nine games on the final day of the first half on Sunday, Giants players seemed to understand their fate. Win, and the front office might just keep the current roster together. Lose, and the Giants may have no choice but to sell off veteran assets and completely shift their attention toward the future.
2019.07.12 (San Francisco Giants vs. Milwaukee Brewers) See video
2019.07.12 (San Francisco Giants vs. Milwaukee Brewers) See video
San Francisco went into the All-Star break playing solid baseball. Posey made sure they kept up their winning ways in their first game back.
“We were able to carry over the way we were swinging the bat before the All-Star break,” Posey said.
Joe Panik singled, Mike Yastrzemski walked and Brandon Belt singled to load the bases for Posey who hit the first pitch from Matt Albers (4-3) to deep left-center. It was Posey’s fifth career grand slam and first this season.
“Great way to start the second half,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “It was good to see Buster give us a cushion.”
The Giants hadn’t hit five home runs in a game since San Francisco blasted six on April 23, 2014 at Coors Field, but they needed all five to outlast Milwaukee in Friday’s series opener.
The G-men rallied from two separate deficits on Friday including one against hard-throwing Brewers All-Star Josh Hader who surrendered a game-tying home run to pinch hitter Tyler Austin in the eighth inning and a go-ahead home run to shortstop Brandon Crawford in the top of the ninth.
Keston Hiura, who had three hits, got his eighth homer of the season off Mark Melancon in the bottom of the 10th for the final margin.
Christian Yelich tripled off All-Star Will Smith (2-0) to start the bottom of the ninth and scored on Mike Moustakas’ ground out to tie the game at 6. It was Smith’s first blown save of the season, but he picked up the win thanks to Posey’s fourth homer this season.
Trying to preserve a 5-4 lead, All-Star Josh Hader coughed up Tyler Austin’s third career pinch-hit home run in the top of the eighth and then Brandon Crawford’s first home run off a left hander this season with two outs in the ninth.
“Hitting two homers off Hader is hard to do,” Posey said.
Hader knew exactly what went wrong.
“I just made two mistakes right over the middle of the plate,” he said. “The only correcting is just not leaving the ball over the middle. That’s where I get in trouble.”
Hader has surrendered home runs in two of his last three appearances. He’s allowed nine home runs which matches his total from 2018.
Rookie right-hander Shaun Anderson faced the Brewers for the first time and baffled them with four-seam fastballs, sliders and curveballs. He struck out a season-high eight, including NL MVP Yelich three times, but tired in the sixth.
A walk and a double by Moustakas ended Anderson’s 11th career start. Reyes Moronta came on and gave up Ryan Braun’s two-run double off the glove of third baseman Evan Longoria. Braun advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Thames’ single to put the Brewers up 5-4.
Austin Slater’s third home run of the season, a two-run shot in the fifth off Milwaukee starter Chase Anderson, evened it up for the Giants after the Brewers scratched out the game’s first two runs.
Longoria’s two-run blast in the sixth off Corbin Burnes hit the left-field foul pole and gave the Giants a 4-2 lead.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: Manager Bruce Bochy said Madison Bumgarner was good to go for his Saturday start. The left-hander was knocked out of the game against St. Louis in his previous outing. José Martínez lined a wicked shot off Bumgarner’s pitching elbow in the second inning last Saturday. X-rays were negative, but he had an elbow contusion.
Brewers: LHP Gio González (left arm fatigue) allowed two runs and four hits in two innings in his first rehab start on Thursday with Class-A Carolina.
GIANTS SLAMS
Posey’s first grand slam since June 24, 2015, against San Diego was the fourth grand slam by a Giant this season and the first since Austin Slater’s on July 6th against St. Louis. It was the first by a Giant in extra-innings since Hector Sanchez’s in the 11th on April 23, 2014 at Colorado.
HADER TRENDS
Brewers manager Craig Counsell took a guarded view of the home runs allowed by Hader.
“We have to live with the fact that he’s going to give up some runs sometimes,” Counsell said. “That’s how he gives up his runs. That’s the nature of how he pitches.”
Hader has allowed 17 hits, nine of them home runs, this season. However, the Brewers manager still has confidence in him.
“Every time we can get him in a game, we’re going to feel really good about it,” Counsell said.
UP NEXT
Giants: LHP Bumgarner (5-7, 4.03 ERA) is 7-4 with a 2.76 ERA in 13 career starts against the Brewers, including 3-1 with a 3.31 ERA in five outings at Miller Park. It’s the second time he’s facing Milwaukee this season. He went six innings and took a no decision at Oracle Park in June.
Brewers: RHP Zach Davies (7-2, 3.07 ERA) makes his second start of the season against the Giants. He is 0-2 with a 2.81 ERA in three career outings against San Francisco, including a 5-3 loss at Oracle Park on June 14th.
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