Giants win, stay 1 game back in NL West
PHOENIX (AP)—With a runner on third base in the ninth inning, Buster Posey(notes) hita flare to right field that was caught by a diving Gerardo Parra(notes).
Two innings later, Posey and the Giants got a break.
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Posey hit a two-out single to the same spot Parra robbed him earlier andNate Schierholtz(notes) followed with a two-run triple, helping San Francisco stayclose to the NL West lead with a 2-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks onMonday.
“Off the bat, I thought it was going to be down,” Posey said of the firstball he hit at Parra. “You kind of know when they’re going to fall and he cameout of nowhere to make a great catch.”
Madison Bumgarner(notes) matched zeros with Arizona starter Ian Kennedy(notes) into theeighth inning and three Giants relievers combined to escape a jam after he left.Parra preserved the scoreless tie with his diving catch in the ninth, but SanFrancisco’s Santiago Casilla(notes) (6-2) struck out the side in the 10th.
Aubrey Huff(notes) got the winning rally started with a two-out single off AaronHeilman(notes) (5-7) in the 11th, then Posey followed with his dink single in front ofParra, whose dive came up just short this time. Schierholtz put San Franciscoahead with his triple to the right-center gap and Brian Wilson(notes) matched a careerhigh with his 41st save in the bottom half, giving the Giants their sixthvictory in eight games.
San Francisco remained one game behind first-place San Diego, which ended a10-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“It’s fun, especially since we’re back in it now,” Bumgarner said. “It’sfun to come out here every day and everybody’s excited to get to the park andcompete.”
Not everyone was able to enjoy it on a day hard liners and even bats seemedto be flying into the stands on nearly every at-bat.
The worst of it came when two kids were injured on consecutive at-bats inthe fourth inning.
A 13-year-old boy, who was sitting just beyond the protective netting on thethird-base side, was injured when Posey lost his bat swinging through a pitch byKennedy. The boy was struck on the right side of the head and was carried off ona stretcher to a hospital.
Medical workers were still attending to him when Pablo Sandoval(notes) set a foulball into the upper deck that struck a 2-year-old girl on the forehead. She alsowas taken to the hospital.
“Anytime that happens it is scary,” Posey said. “Balls were flying in thedugout, bats in the stands, you have to be on your toes. I hope they’re allright.”
On the field, nobody could get to Kennedy or Bumgarner.
Kennedy was sharp for the fifth straight start, striking out six andretiring 14 of his final 15 batters.
The right-hander did a little work with his bat, too, leading off the eighthwith his first career double. He was stranded at third after Javier Lopez(notes) struckout Kelly Johnson(notes), and Ramon Ramirez(notes) got Chris Young on a fielder’s choice toend the inning.
“I feel good right now. I was throwing a lot of strikes today,” Kennedysaid. “I didn’t have a whole lot of strikeouts. I put the ball in play and letmy defense do the work.”
Bumgarner matched Kennedy almost pitch for pitch.
The left-hander struck out seven and twice got Adam LaRoche(notes) with two on andtwo outs: on a strikeout in the first inning and a fly ball to the warning trackin right in the sixth. Bumgarner is 1-0 with a 1.13 ERA in three career startsagainst the Diamondbacks, but has just one win over his last eight starts thisseason.
“Everything was working for the most part today,” Bumgarner said. “Ididn’t throw the cutter a lot, but the fastball velocity was good. Everythingfelt good.”
Heilman felt good, too, but it didn’t work out as well.
The former closer took the loss Saturday against Houston after Carlos Lee(notes)hit a three-run homer off him and made it two defeats in three days by giving uptwo soft singles and Schierholtz’s hard-hit triple.
“I left one pitch up and it hurt me,” Heilman said. “You are always onepitch from getting out of the inning and one pitch away from getting yourself introuble. You go out there and try to make pitches the best you can, butunfortunately sometimes they don’t go the way you want them to.”
Notes: Giants SS Juan Uribe(notes) didn’t play after fouling a pitch off his leftshin Sunday against the Dodgers. … Arizona RF B.J. Upton(notes) missed his fifthstraight game with a strained left shoulder. … The Giants have won fivestraight road games.
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