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Ruf's homer, Gausman's arm help Giants beat Padres 3-2 in 10

April 8, 2021 by Houston Chronicle Leave a Comment

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Alex Dickerson scored on Donovan Solano’s sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 3-2 Wednesday behind an odd home run by Darin Ruf and seven strong innings from Gausman.

Dickerson, who grew up in suburban Poway, started the 10th on second base and advanced when Mike Yastrzemski beat out a nubber down the first base line for an infield single. Reliever Tim Hill (0-1) let the ball roll, thinking it would go foul. Solano followed with a flyball to right to bring in Dickerson.

San Diego’s Jurickson Profar reached third in the 10th on Kim Ha-seong’s grounder before Wandy Peralta struck out Jorge Mateo and got rookie Tucupita Marcano to fly out to end it for his first career save. Jake McGee (1-0) pitched a perfect ninth for the win.

San Diego’s Wil Myers tied the game at 2 with a homer in the eighth off Tyler Rogers.

The Giants had led since the second inning, when Ruf’s flyball with one out off Blake Snell went off Mateo’s glove and over the center-field fence for a two-run homer. Mateo tried to make a leaping catch against the fence but the ball bounced off the heel of his glove and went over for Ruf’s second homer of the series. Evan Longoria was aboard on a leadoff double.

“It looked like it hit off the bottom of his glove,” Ruf said. “When you play outfield and are kind of in between jumping toward the wall of jumping off of two feet, it looks like he kind of got caught in between. It’s a tough play and luckily it went our way.”

Ruf homered on an 0-1 fastball. “After the first fastball my eyes were kind of looking for that and luckily he threw it again, kind of middle in, middle up and I was able to pull my hands inside and get my barrel to it.,” he said.

Gausman was brilliant…

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