A series win, yay. This scoring stuff is fun.
The name of the game was homers today. We had 3 of them:
- Randal Grichuk had a solo shot in the first.
- Justin Smoak had a 2-run homer in the 4th. We scored 3 more than inning, off a bases loaded double by Eric Sogard.
- Teoscar Hernandez hit his second of the series (and season) in the 8th, a solo homer.
We had 9 hits total. Sogard and Grichuk had 2 each. Everyone else had 1 hit other than Freddy Galvis (who had a very nice play in the field and Brandon Drury (who did get a walk). Sogard has been a surprise, 4 hits in his first 8 at bats since coming up from Buffalo.
In the pitching side, Clay Buchholz
went 4.2, allowed 6 hits, 3 earned, 3 walks with 4 strikeouts. He came
out of the game in the 5th inning with 2 on and 2 out, but Thomas Pannone came in and stranded the runners.
Clay had one bad inning, he gave up 3 runs in the second
inning. After a leadoff homer, he got a strikeout, then gave up a walk,
single, an RBI single, and a ground ball that scored one.
The bullpen did the job. Pannone came out of the game
after getting just the 1 out in the 5th. I wasn’t thrilled, I’d have
liked him to get us at least one more inning. Pulling him quick left 4
innings of relief work to go. I don’t like the idea of using a bunch of
relievers in a game, it leaves you short in the future.
- Ryan Tepera pitched a very nice 6th inning, getting 1 strikeout. He looked really good in his first appearance of the season.
- Tim Mayza pitched a quick 7th and started the 8th but gave up a leadoff homer to Edie Rosario, and then came out of the game.
- Joe Biagini came in and pitched the 8th, getting a strikeout.
- Ken Giles gave up a leadoff single in the 9th, and gave up a deep fly that wasn’t foul by too much, but he got 2 strikeouts and his 6th save of the season.
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