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Look at this: Puig does it all vs. Giants
- Updated: September 22, 2016
LOS ANGELES — How can a .254 hitter with 43 RBIs at this point in the season be a potential game-changer in October?
When he’s Yasiel Puig, as he showed Wednesday night in the Dodgers’ 9-3 win over the Giants that cut the magic number to win the National League West to five.
Puig slugged a three-run homer, made a dazzling, over-the-shoulder running catch, nearly threw a baserunner out at the plate and generally resumed his tormenting of the Giants in the finale of a series that opened with the outfielder making San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner come unglued just by looking at him.
“That’s the guy we all know he can be,” said third baseman Justin Turner. “He has the potential to be a game-changer. He’s an exciting player on both sides of the ball. When he’s confident, having fun, playing the game the right way, he makes a big difference. That’s why we all wanted him back in September. He can be a key player for us.”
He wasn’t in the first half of the season, but Puig has responded to an August demotion to Triple-A like it was the wake-up …
