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- Updated: July 23, 2016
NEW YORK — The Giants’ struggles and the Yankees’ surge both continued Friday night as San Francisco shortstop Brandon Crawford committed an eighth-inning throwing error that helped New York generate the tiebreaking run in a 3-2 victory. It was San Francisco’s season-high sixth consecutive loss.
“Unfortunately, the first half we couldn’t be consistent as a team,” Yankees right fielder Carlos Beltran said after his team won its seventh of their last 10 games and is now 4 1/2 games out of the top spot in the American League Wild Card race. “Now, we feel like we’re playing better baseball, so we’re happy where we’re at. We just need to continue to put up wins and we’ll see what happens.”
With the score tied, 2-2, Chase Headley’s infield single, a dribbler toward third base that didn’t quite roll foul, launched the Yankees’ winning rally against Josh Osich (1-2). The rookie left-hander then walked Mark Teixeira. Austin Romine tapped a grounder to Crawford, who stepped on second base before throwing to first in hopes of recording a double play. But first baseman Brandon Belt couldn’t quite hold on to Crawford’s high throw, enabling Headley to score.
“I don’t know what other play I had,” said Crawford, the reigning National League Gold Glove recipient at his position who committed a career-high three errors. “Maybe the other option would have been the glove flip, but I felt more comfortable taking it myself. I thought, worst-case scenario, we have guys on first and third, one out. Throw got up a little bit. Belt kind of lost it also, he said. That didn’t help. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again.”
It was a rough night for the Giants, whose All-Star catcher, Buster Posey, left the game with a bruised right foot in the fourth inning. San Francisco starter Madison Bumgarner allowed runs in each of the first two innings before blanking New York in his last five innings.
“Everybody knows what’s expected of each of us,” Bumgarner said. “We’re facing some adversity, but it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. We just have to worry about tomorrow, tomorrow, and forget about these last few games.”
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