SAN FRANCISCO -Saturday night, Andrew Suarez threw the best game of his career, allowing no runs and three hits in 7.0 innings.
The Giants’ starting pitching has been a revolving door as their mainstays have sustained injury after injury. However, this homestead has shown that the Giants can at times rely on their young pitching. Both Chris Stratton and Andrew Suarez gave up zero runs in their starts.
“The key is hopefully your guy goes up there and pitches well. Thats whats happened for us,” Bochy said.
“Its good to see these young guys get better and it’s going to be the key to our season. Those guys doing what they’re doing now, just giving us a chance to win and they’ve done more than that the last two nights.”
Suarez is also the first Giants starter to go seven innings since Ty Blach on May 5 in Atlanta. The Giants have only had six games in which a starter pitched six or more innings over the last 24 games.
“He pounded the strike zone and they were all quality strikes,” Bochy said of Suarez. “He’s got the stuff, he’s got velocity. Really commanded the ball so well. I just thought he was on top of his game and you could see the confidence in him.”
Suarez started strong with a three up, three down inning on just 11 pitches, and was able to pitch quickly through the game inducing many ground outs. He was also locating well as he started 15 consecutive at-bats with first-pitch strikes.
“I didn’t even notice that. I always try to throw strikes no matter the count,” Suarez said. “Me and (Chris Stratton) talk about it every outing to see what we need to work on and yesterday he set the tone and I just followed up.”
Andrew Suarez logged his first career win tonight at AT&T Park and is now 1-2 at home. Giants are now 16-10 at home (.640), the third best winning percentage in the National League, trailing only the Phillies and the Brewers.
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