Game 2 in San Fran puts the 4 and 2, Jon Lester against the winless Matt Cain and the best in the west, Giants. Dexter Fowler would lead off his third game with a single but would be thrown out trying to steal second base. Kris Bryant would single also but Cain would get out of the inning. Lester would put Denard Span on with a base on balls, but he would get out of the inning. Cain would put two men on but neither would cross the plate. Lester would get the first two batters in the bottom half of the second but would give up a single to Brandon Crawford. Then he walks Gregor Blanco. Two men on with the Cain at the plate. With a 3-2 count, Matt sends a long fly ball just out of reach for Fowler sending both men across the plate giving Cain a double. Span K’s to end the inning but the Giants are up by 2.
With one out in the top of 3, Kris Bryant on a 3 and 2 count would send a long fly ball over Span’s head for his ninth homer of the year. Zobrist would single and Soler would walk but with two outs Javier Baez would fly out. Joe Panik would lead off the bottom half with a double to left field. He would move to third on Kelby Tomlinson’s sac bunt that Bryant would pick up and throw to Rizzo. Buster Posey who at the moment is 1 and 25 takes Lester deep to left center breaking his slump and getting his 5th home run of the year. Matt Duffy sends a line grounder to Addison Russell that bounces off him to left field. He would then steal second base. Trevor Brown would double to left scoring Duffy. Maddon challenges the tag and it’s overturned giving Brown an RBI single. Crawford would walk prompting Maddon to visit the mound replacing Lester with Trevor Cahill who gets out of the inning. Giants up 5 to 1. Matt Cain would continue to hold the Cubs to 1 run through 6.
Trevor Cahill would put two runners on in the fourth but would get through the fourth and the fifth. Clayton Richard would come into the bottom of the sixth for a 1-2-3 inning. Hunter Strickland enters the top of the seventh getting the first two batters out but gives up a single to Fowler and walks Bryant. Josh Osich would come into the game and strikes out Rizzo to end the inning. Justin Grimm enters the bottom half and puts Tomlinson and Posey on but after a visit to the mound, gets out of the inning.
Osich still in gets an out but gives up a double to Soler. Bruce Bochy decides to go with Cory Gearrin, who gives up an RBI single to Baez. Russell grounds out. With two outs Tommy La Stella comes into the game pinch hitting for David Ross and reaches first on a walk. Bochy makes another change bringing in Javier Lopez to face Tim Federowicz to end the inning. Cubs 2, Giants 5.
Travis Wood comes into the game giving up a single to Crawford but gets out of the inning unscathed. Dexter Fowler leads off the top of the ninth against Santiago Casilla sending his 5th home run of the season to right. Casilla would thrn it around and get Bryant, Rizzo and Zobrist to go down in order to end the game, 5-3 Giants.
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