The San Francisco Giants laughed in the final Baybridge series.
San Francisco won the last two consecutive away games against the Oakland Athletics 4-2 at the Oakland Coliseum on Wednesday. With the victory, the team recovered its winning percentage to 63-63.
For them, the game was more than the last game of the series.
As the Athletics decided to leave Oakland and move to Sacramento, their temporary home after this season, the game became the last game played by two neighboring local teams, San Francisco and Oakland.
The competition between the two teams was called the “Baybridge Series” after the bridge connecting the two regions. It drew attention as the major league’s rival interleague. However, as the Athletics decided to relocate the team, the Baybridge series has disappeared into reminiscence.
At the Oakland Coliseum, 32,727 spectators visited the stadium to watch the final Bay Bridge series, well above the average attendance in Auckland.
San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin, who coached 11 seasons in Oakland alone, expressed regret in interviews with local media such as “NBC Sports Bay Area.”
“More than anything else, it’s sad because it’s my last game here. I think today’s game will be played with a lot of emotions. I spent a lot of time here,” he said, expressing regret that he would not visit Auckland anymore.
NBC Sports Bay Area said Melvin went to work at 7:15 a.m., earlier than usual, and spent his last day at the Oakland Coliseum, climbing up and down the stands’ stairs.
He also wore a white spike to commemorate the last game and came out to exchange his lineup card himself before the game.
Thursday’s game was a tight race. San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Blake Snell allowed six hits, two walks and 10 strikeouts in seven innings, and Oakland Athletics starting pitcher JP Sears allowed seven hits, one homer and nine strikeouts in 72/3 innings.
The game was decided in overtime. San Francisco scored three runs on back-to-back home runs by Herar Encarnacion and Michael Conforto.
Oakland narrowed the gap in the bottom of the 10th inning when leadoff hitter Max Schumann was at bat, with forward runner Lawrence Butler scoring due to a defensive error by opposing second baseman Brett Weasley, but failed to score any more points.
San Francisco’s line walker saved the team by striking out JJ Blyday, Miguel Anduha and Shea Langelius in a row with no outs and a bases loaded.토토사이트 추천
Snell recorded 10 strikeouts in the game, his fourth in this season, and his 34th in total. He has 55 strikeouts in the last five games, the most in five games in the Major League this season. At the same time, he has surpassed John Montefusco’s club record of 54 in 1975.
Heliot Ramos’ tiebreaking solo home run in the top of the seventh inning recorded a distance of 448 feet, the longest distance ever recorded by an away hitter at the Oakland Coliseum this season. Among San Francisco hitters, it became the second home run to fly since Jarrett Parker hit 454 feet in September 2015 after Statcast was introduced in 2015.
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