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What we learned when Slater delivered in the Giants’ win against the Astros originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO – Austin Slater singled off Houston reliever Rafael Montero to cap a three-run 10.th inning, as the Giants rallied to beat the Astros 4-3 on Monday night.
After nine innings in which neither team could do much offensively, both got going in the tenth.
Houston scored twice off Giants reliever Erik Miller but couldn’t hold on in front of a roaring crowd at Oracle Park, where the Giants won for the first time since May 28.
Casey Schmitt started the 10th inning at second base and scored on Brett Wisely’s hit to center. After Heliot Ramos singled, Patrick Bailey singled home Wisely to tie the game.
Michael Conforto then reached another Astros error, and after Jorge Soler hit a fielder’s choice, Slater hit a 1-0 sinker over the head of Houston left fielder Joey Loperfido to score the winner.
Randy Rodríguez (2-1) retired a batter to win.
Before the 10th, the Astros’ bats were silent for most of the night.
Kyle Harrison worked 6 1/3 mostly strong innings, while Sean Hjelle, Ryan Walker and Camilo Doval combined for 2 1/3 scoreless innings before the Astros reached Miller, who two days earlier recorded his first win in the majors.
San Francisco had its own offensive problems.
Through the 10th, they only managed to get two runners past second base, both coming in the sixth when San Francisco scored its first run.
Mike Yastrzemski provided the Giants with two highlights. He drove in his only run with a deep triple in the sixth, then made an outstanding catch in the eighth to rob pinch-hitter Jon Singleton of a hit.
The Giants ended their four-game losing streak at their waterfront stadium, their longest streak at home this season. They have won six of the last eight games with the Astros since 2020.
Here are the takeaways from Monday’s game:
Harrison’s day ends in seventh
Harrison was in and out of trouble most of the night until the Astros started attacking him in the seventh inning.
Harrison retired eight of the first nine batters he faced, and the only runner reached base on an error. Harrison then got out of trouble in the fifth after allowing a leadoff single to Jake Meyers, putting the next three Astros in order, including a strikeout by Chas McCormick, who missed an off-speed pitch for the final out.
Harrison threw just 77 pitches (his third-fewest of the season) and was relieved in the seventh after allowing one run and two extra-base hits. His last stat line – 6 1/3 innings, four hits, one run, three strikeouts, no walks – was decent, but not enough to give Harrison the win.
Matt missing
With third base Matt Chapman sitting In a second straight game with a hamstring issue, Schmitt was pushed to work at the hot corner and was immediately examined. Astros leadoff hitter José Altuve hit a hard grounder measured at 94.9 mph directly to Schmitt, who spun the ball for an error.
Schmitt quickly made up for the error, turning into a 5-4-3 double play against the next Houston batter, Alex Bregman. But he came up empty on a play in the fifth when he missed an attempt to dive to catch Jake Meyers’ hard double down the third base line, a play Chapman has made with relative ease several times this season.
Schmitt, who has spent most of this season playing shortstop, made a handful of solid defensive plays, including in the fourth when he extended far to his left to catch Jeremy Pena’s grounder, turned and then made a strong throw to first base for the third out. of the entrance.
Manager Bob Melvin said before the game that he expects Chapman to return to the lineup Tuesday.
Energy cut
After hitting home runs in their previous eight games and leading the National League in home runs hit in June, the Giants’ offense in the series opener against the Astros was more like Dairy Queen ice cream: soft.
San Francisco had nine hits, all but one single.
Yastrzemski’s two-out triple to left-center field in the sixth inning was one of San Francisco’s hardest balls and one of the few that made it out of the frame.
The situational blow didn’t go very well either.
San Francisco put runners in scoring position in three of the first four innings, but failed to score.
