A high chopper flips it all
The infield was in. It did not matter. Shay Whitcomb punched a high chopper toward shortstop, deep in the hole and well behind the drawn-in defense, and Nate Furman raced home from third with one out in the bottom of the 11th. Giants 5, Cardinals 4 in San Francisco on Monday night, first game of a three-game set.
Drew Cavanaugh’s sacrifice bunt had pushed Furman to third moments earlier. Jason Foley (3-1) set the whole thing up by blanking St. Louis in the top of the inning. George Soriano (6-4) wore the loss.
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Eldridge, Devers and a Webb who looked like himself again
Bryce Eldridge drove in three on a double, a single and a sacrifice fly. Rafael Devers doubled twice, walked twice, scored once and knocked in a run. Whitcomb finished with two hits of his own, Turner Hill crossed the plate twice, and San Francisco kept chipping away with a run in the first, the third and the fifth.
Then there was Logan Webb. Six innings, one run, three hits, two walks, eight strikeouts on 99 pitches. Look at where he was three starts ago: 16 runs surrendered in 10 2/3 innings. He was carrying a two-hit shutout into two outs in the sixth before Alec Burleson dropped his 22nd homer of the year into San Francisco Bay.
Five back, and the trip is slipping away
St. Louis had forced extras on a ninth-inning sacrifice fly from pinch-hitter Jose Fermin. Leo Bernal put them back ahead in the 10th. Eldridge answered within minutes. Michael McGreevy gave the Cardinals 6 2/3 innings of three-run ball, two earned, on six hits, and Thomas Saggese chipped in two singles while Burleson scored twice.
The math is unforgiving now. At 72-73, the Cardinals trail the Arizona Diamondbacks by five for the last National League wild-card spot, and a nine-game swing through the West that started with two wins over the Dodgers has drifted to 4-3. The Giants sit at 60-85 with nothing left to chase. These two meet six times in the next 10 days, which means a team going nowhere holds a fair share of St. Louis’ October in its hands.
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