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Giants appear to be handling bullpen carefully with deadline near

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Thursday night it was Sam Dyson and Mark Melancon rested amid an important, 16-inning game.

Friday it would be Reyes Moronta whom Bruce Bochy wouldn’t touch.

The manager indicated he would like to “stay away from” the 26-year-old who has thrown in two consecutive games and three games in four days. Moronta had pitched effectively in three straight games from June 27-29 without a restriction that seems to now be applied.

“The rest of them, for short work, I think they’re all OK” for Friday’s game at Oracle Park against the Mets, Bochy said.

A night (and then morning) earlier, as the Giants and Mets could gain no traction and exchanged zeroes, neither Dyson nor Melancon moved. Dyson had not pitched Wednesday but had Monday and Tuesday; Melancon had pitched in two games straight and three games in four days. Farhan Zaidi has spoken of surplus-for-surplus trades at the deadline, and the Giants’ bullpen is deep.

Bochy had call-up Williams Jerez get the final six outs Thursday, and the reliever was optioned Friday. Lefty Ty Blach took his place.

“Good long man,” Bochy said. “Can eat up some innings if necessary.”


Alex Dickerson was absent from the lineup following his playing all 16 innings a night earlier. It was the Giants’ decision, not Dickerson’s; the left fielder said he was encouraged how he felt after the marathon.

“In the past, it probably would have set me off and it didn’t,” said Dickerson, who missed several games last week with back spasms. “So the build-up has been going well.”