Bochy on the ending: “They had the bat taken out of their hands… it was a tough way to go out.” pic.twitter.com/oeqt7CN2TK
— KNBR (@KNBR) March 30, 2019
SAN DIEGO – Bruce Bochy will feel much more pleased with the fact that tonight’s game became competitive than it remaining a scoreless stain on the Giants’ record books, but he felt aggrieved at a late opportunity that from his perspective, was taken from the Giants unfairly.
Had the Giants not scored tonight, it would have been the first time the team went without scoring in its first two games in its 137-year history. In that sense, Evan Longoria’s solo home run made this game more palatable to the Giants, but a bases-loaded pair of strikeouts quickly soured that glimpse of positivity.
Both Gerardo Parra and Brandon Belt were called out on strikes looking, leaving three baserunners, representing the tying runs in a 4-1 game, stranded on base. Bochy said afterwards, “They had the bat taken out of their hands… it was a tough way to go out.”
According to MLB.com, here was the pitch location for Parra’s strikeout, which finished with him turned round yelling at home plate umpire Lance Barksdale:
The corner-painting ball Parra was called out on: pic.twitter.com/VryrKbriH8
— Jake Hutchinson (@hutchdiesel) March 30, 2019
Here was the Belt pitch location, which finished with him also yelling at Barksdale, followed by the on-deck Madison Bumgarner, who was then restrained by Bochy, who then also yelled at Barksdale:
Final pitch of the game that Belt was called out on pic.twitter.com/KbOuZ92Bqp
— Jake Hutchinson (@hutchdiesel) March 30, 2019
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