Giants beat Pirates 5-4 in 10 innings
The Giants beat the Pirates 5-4 in 10 innings on a Rafael Devers homer, a night after Pittsburgh rallied past them 13-12, while Adrian Houser's season ends with a 60-day IL move.
Devers's homer sets up a 10-inning win
The Giants beat the Pirates 5-4 in 10 innings, taking the second game of their two-game set in Pittsburgh after dropping the opener 13-12 the night before. Rafael Devers went 2-for-3 with a home run and an RBI in the win — "startin' to get déjà vu with all these Devers homers," the Giants' own account posted afterward. Landen Roupp started and worked 5 innings, allowing 2 hits and 1 earned run while striking out 4 and walking 2.
Pirates12-13Pirates5-4The opener was the wilder of the two: the Pirates won it 13-12 after the Giants had trailed 11-5, according to FoulTerritoryTV and TalkinBaseball_, who both flagged the comeback as it happened before Pittsburgh pulled it out in the ninth. A night later Devers and the bullpen turned the same kind of back-and-forth game the other way, needing extra innings to finish it.
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The Giants transferred right-hander Adrian Houser (forearm) to the 60-day injured list Tuesday, effectively ending his season, Justice delos Santos of The San Jose Mercury News reports.
Left-hander Matt Gage was also shifted to the 60-day list this week. delos Santos reported Gage had been pulled off his rehab assignment and shut down from throwing for a week after experiencing discomfort in his left elbow — the second Giants pitcher lost for the year in the same stretch.
Upcoming
The Giants are in Pittsburgh this afternoon, with Blade Tidwell (0-1, 4.54 ERA) opposing Lake Bachar (1-3, 3.70 ERA). Tidwell's last time out, against Arizona on August 28, he took the loss after allowing 6 earned runs on 7 hits over 5 innings. Bachar has been on a short leash himself — his last start, August 29 against St. Louis, lasted just 2.1 innings and 28 pitches, though he allowed only 1 earned run.
Pittsburgh is favored, and the total is read as middling — a sign the books aren't expecting a repeat of the last two nights' scoring. That price leans on Tidwell's rough last outing against a Pirates lineup that has already hung 13 and 4 runs on the Giants this week; San Francisco needs him to look more like the pitcher from earlier in the year than the one Arizona beat up.