The concluding game of this two game series saw San Francisco's ace, Madison Bumgarner, go up against David Price of Boston.
This was even lower scoring that the first game, a pitchers' duel from the off. Bumgarner got into a lot of deep counts and only lasted 6 innings, which is short for him, and he gave up a solo home run to Young that put Boston in front in the 4th inning.
Meanwhile, Price was very economical with his pitches, and pitched 8 innings, and the Giants only actually got 3 hits in the entire game - but two of them were home runs, giving us a 2-1 victory, and one of them was a "splash hit" by Brandon Belt: it cleared the right field stands and the promenade and landed directly in McCovey Cove as shown in the picture on the left, taken before the game before all the canoeists and other sailors arrived.
The other homer by Williamson just cleared the orange car advertisement in the left field corner and that turned out to be the winning run.
David Ortiz came in to pinch hit again in this game, but he ended up taking a walk and was then pinch run for. That might be the last time I get to see him play, unless I visit Boston in the autumn or see the Red Sox play again somewhere else.
Importantly, we split the series and got back to winning ways before the Dodgers arrive for a 3-game series starting on Friday evening. That will be the final game of my holiday.
You can walk all the way around AT&T park without going in, so you can see the marina just outside, in addition to the cove. It's a very pretty location, with great views across the bay to Oakland.
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