
Betts followed with a double into the left-field corner. In the fifth, Ebel made the opposite choice – and it was the wrong one.Īustin Barnes led off the inning with a single. He stayed at third as Miguel Vargas popped out to shallow right field and Cody Bellinger took a questionable called third strike. In the fourth, third base coach Dino Ebel stopped Max Muncy at third on Gallo’s double. Related ArticlesĪlbert Pujols reaches 700 career home runs with 2 in rout of DodgersĪ failed stolen base attempt ended the third when Turner beat the throw but slid off the base. But only one run scored – on an RBI double by Joey Gallo in the fourth. Trea Turner’s single with two outs in the third inning started a stretch that saw six out of nine Dodgers batters get hits. The Dodgers found it more difficult to score against Webb with the ball in play. Just trying to be a good hitter and keep that going.” If I start chasing homers, I’m going to start chasing everything.
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“It’s one of those things,” Freeman said of his 17 home runs, putting him on track for his fewest in a full season since 2015 when a wrist injury limited him to 118 games. 15, ending a stretch of 87 homer-less plate appearances. The Dodgers started the power surge with a two-run homer by Freeman in the first inning. He gave up just two hits that didn’t go over a wall, struck out eight and got 19 swings-and-misses in 5⅓ innings.īrinson doubled up, hitting his second home run of the game in the ninth inning off of Dodgers reliever Justin Bruihl. In between the long balls, Heaney was difficult to hit. “I’m frustrated any time somebody barrels a ball up. “Tried to flip a changeup in there (to Estrada). “Trying to throw some of those heaters up, they just ended up middle,” Heaney said. Three batters later, David Villar sent a first-pitch fastball into the right field pavilion for a two-run homer, the Giants’ fourth home run in an eight-batter stretch. Thairo Estrada changed things up, leading off the fourth inning by hitting a changeup from Heaney over the wall. Two batters later, JD Davis sent a 1-and-1 fastball over the wall in center field. In the third, Lewis Brinson hammered an 0-and-1 fastball into the netting beyond center field for a two-run homer. The Giants got Heaney twice each in the third and fourth innings. I think there’s some sequencing thing that we can kind of clean up going forward.” “I think the main adjustment with these homers is that he’s making mistakes in the middle of the plate, heart of the plate. “He made some mistakes in the middle of the plate and they took advantage. “When you’re a two-pitch pitcher – there were some changeups in there, but (Heaney is) predominantly a fastball pitcher,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Heaney, who threw 55 fastballs, 27 sliders and eight changeups against the Giants.
