SAN FRANCISCO — The swing was so pure that it left a mark.
On Tony Vitello. From Drew Gilbert.
“It was such a pretty swing, Drew punched me,” the Giants manager said after his club rallied against the Marlins for a 6-3 win Sunday. “And [he] said, ‘That’s the swing!’”
WhileCasey Schmitt’s go-ahead home runin the seventh was a quality hack in its own right, the cut that caused a stir in the dugout came an inning earlier and got the comeback started.
The Giants hope it can be the start of something much bigger.
Almost a month in, Rafael Devers’ season-long slump has officially become a concern. Two soft outs on uncompetitive cuts in his first two at-bats Sunday did nothing to alleviate those worries.
But after Schmitt drew a walk to lead off the sixth, Devers changed course. He fell behind 1-2, and when reliever Calvin Faucher tried to sneak a fastball by him for strike three, Devers went with the low-and-outside offering and lined the ball into the gap in left-center field.
“Rafi’s got two strikes on him, and he’s just up there fighting — fighting the situation, rather than fighting himself,” Vitello said. “At times, at least that’s what it has appeared as.”
The ball left Devers’ bat at 108.2 mph and made it all the way to the wall. Schmitt scored from first to get the Giants on the board. In a way, it also got the middle of their lineup on the board.
The RBI double delivered the first run driven in by any of their big three bats — Devers, Willy Adames or Matt Chapman — over the course of their six-game homestand.
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