Running fast and slow all at once
Giants 6, Rockies 5
When you're on pace to be the worst team in baseball history, you lose every kind of game imaginable. Blowouts, thrillers, everything in between.
The Rockies are inventing ways to lose, and Monday night was especially creative.
Wilmer Flores, depending on how you twist the numbers, is the slowest everyday player in baseball. He's certainly the slowest player on the team.
Speed isn’t his game, but clutch hits are. Nobody’s had more of them this year for the Giants, and I can promise you they've all left the infield—until now.
Down to the game's last strike, Flores dribbled a ball slow enough to get pulled over on 280. There's an impossibly small amount of territory between the pitcher and third baseman where he could manage an infield single, and he found it.
If the play felt like it happened in slow motion, it's because it did.
Flores lumbered down the line to tie it, and Mike Yastrzemski followed with a go-ahead hit to put the Giants ahead for good.
They've won six in a row all by one run, which is the longest streak in franchise history. In the span of a week, the Giants have won half the games the Rockies have all year.
Up next: The series rolls on as Robbie Ray (8-1, 2.44 ERA) squares off with Kyle Freeland (1-8, 5.19 ERA) at 5:40 pm. We’ll see what fun is in store.
🎧 Listen up: A lot of good stuff on the latest episode. Kerry and I unpack Buster Posey’s roster shakeup, I dig into the Giants over some quotes about the ballpark and getting picked off, and Kerry gets quizzed on Giants All Stars. Tune in!