SAN FRANCISCO — Joc Pederson singled in Patrick Bailey within the Eleventh inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat Boston 4-3 on Sunday for his or her first residence collection win towards the Red Sox since 2004.
Bailey started the inning at second base. After Casey Schmitt was hit by a pitch from Mauricio Llovera (1-1), Brandon Crawford tried to sacrifice the runners over. But Boston catcher Connor Wong was unable to area the ball and Crawford reached on an infield single.
Pederson then lined a 1-2 sinker from Llovera into proper area.
It was the second time this season that San Francisco received on a game-ending play with Pederson on the plate. He drew a bases-loaded stroll to beat San Diego on June 20.
“You definitely want to be aggressive,” Pederson mentioned. “The pressure’s on the pitcher. They’re wanting to throw strikes and not get behind in the count. That definitely plays into it.”
Wilmer Flores and Luis Matos every had two hits for San Francisco (58-48), which is on prime of the NL wild-card standings after successful six of seven.
PHOTOS: Joc Pederson’s Tenth-inning single lifts San Francisco Giants previous Boston Red Sox 4-3
“Some teams just have a flair for some late-inning heroics. Seems like this team has that for sure,” mentioned Ross Stripling, who pitched 4 1/3 innings of one-run ball in reduction of opener Scott Alexander. “Sometimes we don’t even come alive until like the seventh inning. The struggles that we’ve been through have brought us really close together as a group.”
Justin Turner and Adam Duvall homered for Boston. The Red Sox have misplaced consecutive street collection for the primary time this season.
Boston (56-49) missed an opportunity to take the lead within the prime of the Tenth when Tristan Beck (2-0) bought Yu Chang to strike out swinging with two runners on.
The Giants have been up 2-1 when Turner hit his seventeenth homer, a two-run shot off Tyler Rogers within the eighth. But Bailey tied it at 3 with a run-scoring groundout within the backside half.
Turner’s drive to left spoiled a robust outing by Stripling, one in every of San Francisco’s prime offseason acquisitions.
Stripling retired 13 of his 17 batters. He allowed 4 hits, struck out three and walked none.
After Duvall chased Stripling together with his leadoff homer within the seventh, the Red Sox put two runners on earlier than Triston Casas flew out to middle fielder Matos, who threw to second for an inning-ending double play.
FOR OPENERS
Alexander threw 16 pitches and retired 5 batters. Boston’s Brennan Bernardino allowed one hit and one run on 27 pitches in a single inning of labor.
San Francisco improved to 13-4 this season when utilizing an opener.
GOLD GLOVE GEM
The 36-year-old Crawford returned to the lineup after lacking 12 video games with left knee irritation, and the shortstop confirmed why he’s nonetheless thought of top-of-the-line infielders within the sport. The four-time Gold Glove winner snared Turner’s sharp grounder then made a backhanded flip to second baseman Schmitt, who threw to first to finish a double play.
“What I see is a team that’s playing really good defense and pretty consistent defense,” San Francisco supervisor Gabe Kapler mentioned. “In the biggest moments we’re making plays.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: RHP Anthony DeSclafani was positioned on the injured record with an elbow flexor pressure. … OF Mike Yastrzemski was faraway from the sport attributable to left hamstring tightness.
UP NEXT
Red Sox: RHP Nick Pivetta (7-5, 4.11 ERA) will make his first begin since May 16 when Boston begins a three-game collection in Seattle on Monday.
Giants: Kapler has not introduced a starter for Monday’s residence sport towards the Diamondbacks.
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