The San Francisco Giants Beat
With One Out and Runners at the Corners in the Bottom of the Ninth Inning, Giants Catcher Patrick Bailey Hit a Walk-FF, Three-Run, Inside-The-Park Home in A 4-3 Win Tuesday Night. The Ball Loged Like It Welf End the Game the Simpler Way, Flying Over the Wall in Right-Communter, But the Cavernous Right-Field Dimensions of Oracle Park Kept the Ball in Play.
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The Play Wound Up Being Much Funnier. The Ball Bounded hard and carened not just away from Right Fielder Nick Castellanos, but Well Past Center Fielder Brandon Marsh. It was the Kind of Bounce You Need Signicant Experience in San Francisco to Anticipate, and the Phillies Outfield DIDNT.
Bailey, One of the Sloer Players in the Majors with an Average Sprint Speed of 25.6 Fet Per Second, Rumbled Arter The Basepaths and Scored the Winning Run with Time to Spare. PERBABALL RefernceIT was the first inste-the-park walk -ff home by a catcher Since Bennie Tate in 1926, Nearly A Century ago.
That Ending Continues A Stretch of Misery for the Phillies at Oracle Park, Where they have lost 18 of their past 21 games.
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Before Relief Jordan Romano Enverted the Game, The Phillies’ Pitching Staff Had Allowed Just One Run and Six Hits in Eight Innsous, LED by Start Taijuan Walker. It has been a BRUTAL Season over for Romano, Who was Non-Hendored by the Taronto Blue Jays after a similarly Rough Campaign in 2024.
The Phillies’ BullLPEN HAS Been in Flux Since Closer José Alvarado was Suspended 80 Games after a failed prescription-henging dru test. Romano Has Closing Experience, Having Reacked Two All-Star Games AS Blue Jays Closer, But His Era now Sits at 7.44 in 32 2/3 Innings. His peripheraals aren’t much beetter.
Romano Got INTO TOUBLE Tuesday on a Leadoff Double by Casey Schmitt. Wilmer Flores Brother The Winning Run to the Plate with a Single Two Batters Later, and Bailey Needed Only One Pitch to Hit the Most Chaote Fly Ball of His Career.
Patrick Bailey is the first catcher in 99 years to hit a walk -ff inste-to-park home run. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
(Thearon W. Henderson via Getty Images)
The Win Keeps The Giants in Control of the Third NL Wild-Card Spot and Five Games Back from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West, A Lead that Peaked at Nine Games Only Five Days ago. The Dodgers Lost Earlier Tuesday to the Milwaukee Brewers after a Brilliant Performance by Rookie Pitcher Jacob Misiorwski.
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Meanwhile, the 53-39 Phillies Have now Fallen into a tie with the new york mets for first place in the nl east.
