by Claire Reclosado
SAN FRANCISCO---The San Francisco Giants hosted the San Diego Padres on April 21, but it was not just a regular day at the AT&T Park. It was Filipino Heritage Night, the best pound-for-pound boxer Manny Pacquiao threw out the first pitch, and the normally cool San Francisco night was instead a rare hot night—77 degrees at game time.
That wasn’t the end of the rarities that night. Giants’ shortstop Edgar Renteria hit his seventh career grand slam off of Jake Peavy—the first one given up in the Padres’ pitcher’s career. Most importantly, that homer by Renteria was half of the run-support that the Giants provided starting pitcher Matt Cain in the Giants 8-3 victory over the Padres.
Finally.
Cain has been known as the San Francisco pitcher with the curse of no offensive backing. Today was a different.
“It really is [good],” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said in regards to how good if was to see Cain had run support. “Matt has had a couple years of some tough luck. We went against a touch pitcher, had some good at-bats—the guys battled well tonight.”
First baseman Travis Ishikawa contributed to the effort, going 2-for-3 with one walk, two runs, and two RBI.
“Any pitcher out there, we want to try to get him the win,” Ishikawa said when asked about the offense’s performance with Cain on the mound. “We struggled last year giving him run support.”
The struggle was momentarily forgotten with Renteria’s fourth inning grand slam to left-center.
That wasn’t the end of the rarities that night. Giants’ shortstop Edgar Renteria hit his seventh career grand slam off of Jake Peavy—the first one given up in the Padres’ pitcher’s career. Most importantly, that homer by Renteria was half of the run-support that the Giants provided starting pitcher Matt Cain in the Giants 8-3 victory over the Padres.
Finally.
Cain has been known as the San Francisco pitcher with the curse of no offensive backing. Today was a different.
“It really is [good],” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said in regards to how good if was to see Cain had run support. “Matt has had a couple years of some tough luck. We went against a touch pitcher, had some good at-bats—the guys battled well tonight.”
First baseman Travis Ishikawa contributed to the effort, going 2-for-3 with one walk, two runs, and two RBI.
“Any pitcher out there, we want to try to get him the win,” Ishikawa said when asked about the offense’s performance with Cain on the mound. “We struggled last year giving him run support.”
The struggle was momentarily forgotten with Renteria’s fourth inning grand slam to left-center.
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