Rookie Hayden Birdsong mixed with 4 relievers on a four-hitter because the San Francisco Giants accomplished a doubleheader sweep over the visiting Colorado Rockies with a 5-0 victory within the nightcap Saturday evening.
Birdsong (3-0), Sean Hjelle, Taylor Rogers, Erik Miller and Spencer Bivens mixed for 13 strikeouts after Blake Snell and three relievers teamed for 17 in a 4-1 win within the opener.
In response to the Giants, the 30 strikeouts have been probably the most by Giants pitchers in a doubleheader for the reason that stat was first logged in 1901.
Birdsong pitched the primary 5 innings of the Giants’ fifth shutout of the season, limiting the Rockies to a few singles and three walks. The eight strikeouts have been his second-most, trailing solely his 12 in his earlier begin, towards the Rockies final Sunday.
The Giants wanted simply 9 pitches by Rockies starter Tanner Gordon to take the lead for good when Jorge Soler singled and Mike Yastrzemski adopted with a triple to proper area.
The hosts added a run within the second on consecutive doubles by Matt Chapman and Brett Properly, doubled the benefit on a sacrifice fly by Yastrzemski and RBI single by Heliot Ramos within the fifth and capped the scoring on a solo homer by Tyler Fitzgerald within the eighth.
The house run by Fitzgerald was his ninth of the season, eight of which have come within the final 10 video games.
Promoted from the minors for the doubleheader, Gordon (0-3) was charged with 4 runs on 9 hits in six innings. He struck out 5 and didn’t stroll anybody.
The Giants’ bullpen allowed only one hit, a ninth-inning single by Brendan Rodgers, over the ultimate 4 innings.
Soler collected two doubles, a single and two runs for the Giants, who’ve gained three in a row within the wake of a 2-5 journey that included dropping two of three in Colorado.
Properly chipped in with a double and a single as a part of an 11-hit assault.
–Subject Stage Media
