The Giants headed to LA for a weekend series against their rivals the Dodgers. Ryan Vogelsong gets the ball in game 1 of this 3 game series, hoping to keep the Giants rolling to start the season. Vogey, fresh off a new contract with SF this past off season that helped solidify the rotation. He finished last season with a record of 4-6 with an ERA of 5.73 in only 20 starts. He was bitten by the injury bug which made the Giants more open to signing someone else, but ultimately decided they wanted to keep him. San Francisco continues their road trip in LA before heading home on Tuesday for the first game of the season at AT&T Park.
Offense with yet another fast start in this one began with two outs in the first inning when the Giants batted around and scored 6 runs off Dodger starter Hyun-Jin Ryu, who had trouble locating his pitches and the Giants took advantage. The inning was capped off with a 2 RBI single by Vogelsong who helped his own cause before he even took the mound. In the second inning the offense did not stop, scoring 2 more runs off the bats of new Giant Brandon Hicks and Joaquin Arias. Vogelsong meanwhile settled into an early groove, have good command of his changeup and kept the Dodger power bats silent through the first 3 innings. The 4th inning is where his command started to falter, not being able to put away hitters when he was ahead of them. He made a 1-2 mistake to Adrian Gonzalez to lead off the 4th inning that led to a solo homer. The next batter Andre Either also took a mistake pitch from Vogelsong and planted it into the stands going back to back with Gonzalez. The Dodgers in the 5th continued to take advantage of Vogelsong which knocked him out of the game early in the inning. He finished with the line of 4+ 7 hits 4 runs 2 walks and 4 strikeouts. David Huff had to come in relief to help bail out Vogelsong from the jam. One of the turning points of the game came in the 7th inning when Hanley Ramirez was called safe stealing second base but appeared to be tagged out. Bochy challenged the play and Ramirez was called out. The Giants are now 1 for 2 this year on challenges. Both bullpens took over and shut down the offense for both teams, the Dodger bullpen shut down the Giants bats completely with 7 innings, no hits and only one walk. Javier Lopez came in to close out the game. David Huff got his first win as a member of the Giants.
San Francisco 8, Los Angeles 4
W- Huff (1-0)
L- Ryu (1-1)
Friday April 4, 2014
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