The San Francisco Giants are within a half-game of the National League’s third wild-card playoff spot after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-1, on Patrick Bailey’s walk-off grand slam within the backside of the tenth inning on Friday night time.
Reliever Tanner Scott took over for Blake Treinen after getting Matt Chapman to floor out to steer off the body. With automated runner Christian Koss already on, Scott walked Jung Hoo Lee after a seven-pitch battle, then deliberately walked Casey Schmidt to load the bases.
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Pitching to Bailey, Scott adopted up a slider within the grime with a 97 mph fastball excessive out of the strike zone however proper within the Giants catcher’s consolation zone. Bailey knew he hit the pitch out of the park as quickly as he linked, triumphantly flipping his bat to the bottom.
The Giants’ victory ended the Dodgers’ four-game profitable streak. That allowed Los Angeles to construct its first-place lead over the San Diego Padres within the NL West back up to three games, which is now chipped all the way down to 2.5 video games.
However, the win was extra impactful for San Francisco. Coupled with the New York Mets’ 8-3 loss to the Texas Rangers, the Giants are on the verge of seizing one of the NL’s postseason spots. The Mets have misplaced seven consecutive video games and eight of their previous 9.
“That was a special game,” Giants starter Justin Verlander stated, via MLB.com, after permitting only one run in seven innings.
“That was one of the more fun games in a regular season I’ve been a part of. Obviously, we know where we’re at, playing the Dodgers at home,” he added. “It was one of those games that had a bit of a playoff atmosphere to it from the beginning, and one of those games that you just never know who’s going to step up and make a great play and take a great at-bat.”
For Bailey, it was his second walk-off residence run of the season. His first one was extra tiring, nonetheless, approaching an inside-the-park homer versus the Philadelphia Phillies on July 9. With Friday’s huge blast, he grew to become the primary participant in MLB historical past to register an inside-the-park walk-off residence run and a walk-off grand slam in the identical season.
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(Roberto Clemente had a walk-off, inside-the-park grand slam in 1956, according to MLB.com’s Sarah Langs, however did not obtain each feats in separate video games as Bailey did.)
The Dodgers’ loss squandered a superb begin from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who allowed one run and one hit over seven innings with 10 strikeouts. After permitting a run within the first inning on a stroll to Rafael Devers and double from Willy Adames, the right-hander retired 20 consecutive batters.
Yamamoto has been victimized by significantly unhealthy luck in his previous two begins, shedding to the Baltimore Orioles final Saturday after being one out away from throwing a no-hitter. In his previous three begins, he has allowed solely three whole runs and 6 hits in 22 2/3 innings.