Major League Baseball has admitted that replay umpires in New York botched a call that cost Brandon Crawford a two-run home run in the ninth inning of the Giants 5-2 loss to the Cardinals on Friday night.
Whether it’s Bumgarner in his prime, Cain far past his, or anyone in-between that is taking the mound, a pattern has developed for the 2017 Giants: they don’t score enough runs and they don’t win many games. That continued on Thursday, with the Giants losing 5-2 in the first of a four-game series versus the St. Louis Cardinals.
With the Mets clinching home field advantage for the NL Wild Card game Wednesday night, the Giants and Cardinals still have one more game to get in themselves. A win Sunday not only puts the Giants in New York Wednesday night, it allows manager Bruce Bochy to mix and match his starting pitching as he wishes.
After losing two of three games in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Giants would need a massive collapse by the Dodgers to win the NL West.
The now team finds itself in the middle of a crazy close Wild Card race.