Giancarlo Stanton and Josh Donaldson each hit a home run
NEW YORK — Camillo Doval struck out Giancarlo Stanton on a game-ending double-play grounder with the bases loaded, and the San Francisco Giants beat the New York Yankees 7-5 on Saturday.
Doval let Aaron Judge‘s RBI single in the ninth inning, which was the slugger’s third hit, but he got his first save when Stanton hit a ground ball to shortstop Brandon Crawford, who started a double play that held up after a video review. The ball was picked up by first baseman LaMonte Wade Jr. after second baseman Thairo Estrada threw it low to him.
There were four violations of the pitch clock, more than any other game in the first three days of the new rule. In the ninth inning, Doval hit two of them, and Taylor Rogers of the Giants and Albert Abreu of the Yankees each hit one.
Anthony Volpe of New York got his first two big league hits and became the first Yankees player since Fritz Maisel in 1913 to steal a base in each of his first two games. Since Billy Hamilton did it in 2013, no one else in the major leagues had done it.
But Estrada’s RBI single went off the 21-year-old shortstop’s glove as the Giants scored twice in the sixth inning to take a 5-3 lead.
New York took a 2-0 lead thanks to a throwing error by pitcher Alex Cobb and Stanton’s first home run, which went the other way down the right-field line at 112 mph. But the Yankees were only 3 for 11 with runners in scoring position and left 8 runs on base while the Giants came back.
In a three-run fourth against Clarke Schmidt, Joc Pederson hit a solo home run and Crawford hit a two-run drive. This was the first home run for the Giants on a 3-0 pitch since Buster Posey did it in the 2021 NL Division Series.
Crawford was 3 for 5 with a double and two runs scored. He also stole a base. It was the second time in his career that he had a game with three hits, a double, a home run, two runs scored, and a steal.
In the fifth inning, Anthony Rizzo‘s RBI double against Jakub Junis (1-0) tied the game at 3-3. In the sixth, the Giants scored two runs without hitting a ball out of the infield.
Wade Jr. hit the game-winning RBI single when his soft hit went to the third base side of the mound, and David Villar scored when Michael King (0-1) and catcher Jose Trevino collided and were unable to make a throw. Last July 22, King was returning from a broken elbow.
After Michael Conforto was struck out by King, Estrada hit a liner to Volpe, who charged in and had the ball bounce off the heel of his glove. Volpe couldn’t get the force at second, and Crawford scored to put the Giants up 5-3.
“It was a tough one,” Volpe said. “Probably keep me up at night thinking about that. I definitely feel like I should have had it. It was on me.”
Josh Donaldson homered off Rogers in the eighth inning, three innings after the crowd booed him for taking a called third strike, stranding two runners.
In a two-run ninth inning against Clay Holmes, Mike Yastrzemski added an RBI double and Crawford hit a run-scoring single.
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