Tucupita Marcano led off with a double, and after Bryan Reynolds lined out to center, Andrew McCutchen hit a broken-bat fly to Slater in short left field that turned into a double play when Marcano took off from second and kept running.
The game began with an unusual three-pitch inning against DeSclafani. He had been 0-3 in four starts since winning at Houston on May 2. Suwinski hit his first against starter Anthony DeSclafani (4-4) in the seventh inning and the other against Brett Wisely, a position player who pitched the ninth inning.ĭeSclafini gave up three runs and eight hits in seven innings. Jack Suwinski homered twice for the Pirates, joining Barry Bonds as the only players to hit two balls into McCovey Cove in one game. We've got to continue to learn, we've got to continue to get better and we've got to get back on task a little bit.” When things go a little bit awry, we have to make sure we stay on track. “When it's going well with young players everything is OK. “We're dealing with a bunch of young players,” manager Derek Shelton said. The Pirates are having the opposite experience as multiple players who guided them to the fast start have struggled. “When I came up here it was really exciting to see Casey's success right away from Sacramento and I'm sure it's exciting for him," Bailey said. You can dream on the possibilities of these guys playing for a really long time together and looking back on this time when they first got called up to the major-leagues and propelled the team to win a lot of baseball games.”īailey said it was helpful to arrive in San Francisco from Triple-A Sacramento behind fellow rookies Schmitt and Wisely because he could tap them for their observations of this level.
“I imagine they're having a shared experience around it. “It's unusual to have two rookies come up and have the type of sustained success that these two players are having," Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. Schmitt arrived on May 9 and played in his 20th big league game Monday.
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Slater had his third game with four RBIs and first since 2019.īailey and Casey Schmitt, who have formed a dynamic duo of rookies since their promotions from Triple-A, each had three of the Giants' 18 hits, as did Slater, Brandon Crawford and Mitch Haniger.īailey and Schmitt have provided an unexpected boost for an organization that has struggled to develop middle-order position players since Crawford, Brandon Belt and Buster Posey led the Giants to three World Series titles. Following a 5-2 trip to Minnesota and Milwaukee, the Giants won for the 11th time in 14 games - and for the 14th time in 19 home games.Īustin Slater, in his first game back from a hamstring injury, hit a two-run homer in the second and a two-run double in the seventh.
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