Joe Panik

After taking a comeback line drive from Joe Panik to the left arm, Hyun-Jin Ryu left Saturday’s game after 2.1 innings pitched with an apparent injury.

Matt Moore was prepared to enter the offseason with his future in jeopardy, but last week, the 28-year-old left-hander learned that the Giants planned to pick up his $9 million option and pencil him into the rotation for the 2018 season.

The Giants have found it very difficult to win at Coors Field this year. But on Wednesday evening, they proved it wasn’t impossible.

After winning 10 games in the first 18 days of August, San Francisco reached the 50-win plateau, and appeared to be in the clear. Only one Giants’ team in franchise history has lost 100 games –the 1985 team that finished exactly 62-100– and in the middle of August, a 2017 club that has been nothing short of awful looked like it would avoid that fate.

If and when San Diego is able to make a future playoff push, the Padres won’t have to worry about figuring out how to beat the Giants. Their young players are already experts at that.

There are great diving plays, and then there’s the type of diving play that Giants’ second baseman Joe Panik made on Wednesday night.

Matt Moore had instilled the Giants with hope. After a brutal season in which he ranked among the least effective pitchers in Major League Baseball, the San Francisco Giants began to put pressure on Moore.

On Monday night, the Giants’ offense wasn’t much better than it was in Phoenix. The difference? Samardzija rose above his peers. Over nine innings, Samardzija surrendered just three hits.

On Sunday evening, Buster Posey walked into the visiting clubhouse in Phoenix with tape around his right thumb. Posey had just finished a weekend series in which the San Francisco Giants were swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks, a series in which Posey went 1-for-11 at the plate.

The San Francisco Giants have their starting second baseman back.