The San Francisco Giants opened Game 1 of a day-night doubleheader with a 13-7 win over the Chicago Cubs.
San Francisco Giants vs. Chicago Cubs: Series Finale Rained Out
The Giants’ offense put up an atypically strong performance.
Every member of the starting lineup got at least one hit, pitcher Ryan Vogelsong included. They rapped out a season-high 18 hits.
Six of them got at least two hits, and it should have been seven.
Aaron Rowand, Cody Ross, Pablo Sandoval and Chris Stewart got two hits each. Aubrey Huff was only credited with an RBI single, but one ball he hit was wrongly ruled as an error on Alfonso Soriano and should have gone for his second hit.
Miguel Tejada and Pat Burrell had three hits apiece. Both hit a home run.
Burrell’s was a two-run shot to left in the third off Doug Davis. At the time, the wind was blowing out to right. In fact, just the half-inning before, the winds had helped carry a Carlos Pena knock out of the park — without the wind, Pena’s had no chance of leaving the yard.
Tejada’s was a solo homer off John Grabow with two outs in the ninth.
Sandoval, Rowand and Ross each hit a double.
Seven Giants drove in at least one run: Rowand, Tejada, Huff, Sandoval, Burrell, Stewart and Nate Schierholtz. Rowand and Burrell had three RBIs apiece; Huff had two, and the rest each had one.
Stewart now has three RBIs in the past two games after not driving in any in his first 16 games.
The first four Giants all reached base to open the game. Rowand walked and then Tejada, Huff and Ross all singled. Huff’s hit drove in Rowand.
Sandoval then grounded into a double play, but this did allow Tejada to bring home the second run of the game.
Burrell singled in Huff for the inning’s third and final run.
San Francisco also scored three runs in the third and five in the fifth.
The Giants sent every member of the starting lineup to the plate in the fifth. They loaded the bases twice.
The first time, Stewart singled home a run; the second, Ross hit a bases-clearing double.
In the bottom of the fifth, second baseman Bill Hall made two blunders, but only was ruled an error, though both should have been.
Vogelsong came in with nine straight starts of having allowed two runs or less, the second longest such streak in San Francisco Giants’ history. Had he held the Cubs to no more than two runs, he would have equaled Juan Marichal for the longest streak.
But, today he surrendered three earned runs (six total) on six hits, four walks and six strikeouts in five innings. However, this was good enough for his sixth win of the season.
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