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Samardzija bat flips double, Blach clearly not impressed

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Giants’ pitchers are not strangers to launching tape-measure home runs, and on Sunday afternoon, right-hander Jeff Samardzija thought he had his second round-tripper of the season.

Samardizja led off the bottom of the third inning against Arizona left-hander Patrick Corbin by smoking a pitch to deep center field, and as soon as Samardzija made contact, he thought the ball was out.

The 32-year-old has three career home runs, including a 448-foot shot at Coors Field this season, and naturally, when a pitcher hits a home run, he’s afforded the luxury of a bat flip. So upon driving the ball to center, Samardzija flipped his bat and started a home run trot.

There was just one problem.

Samardzija’s blast did not clear the center field fence at AT&T Park. Instead, it bounced off the top of the wall on the fly and caromed back toward D’Backs outfielder Gregor Blanco.

After trotting three-quarters of the way up the first base line, Samardzija was forced to turn on the jets and sprint toward second base, where he would make it safely with a double.

Samardzija’s antics cracked up his fellow starting pitchers in the Giants’ dugout, including southpaw Ty Blach, who pointed at his bicep to show Samardzija what home run strength really looked like.

Blach, of course, was trolling Samardzija after the rookie hit his first career home run to dead center field on Thursday evening against the A’s.

The Giants’ pitching staff leads all of Major League Baseball with four home runs hit at least 400 feet, and even though Samardzija didn’t get all of offering from Corbin on Saturday, he still owns the longest home run hit by a Giants’ pitcher this season.