The San Francisco Giants maintained their new-found success established in the Philadelphia series against the reigning National League Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara and the Miami Marlins on Friday night.
The once feast-or-famine offense heavily reliant on bludgeoning the ball out of the park no matter what the score was, who the pitcher was, what the count was, has taken that physicality and got sit-u-ation-al.
After a 3-game sweep of the Phillies in which the Giants scored 17 runs only 3 of which were delivered by a home run, while knocking 10 2-out RBI hits, the bats secured the 4-3 win to open the series against Miami with scoring cut from the same cloth: Weak but effective contact, sacrifice flies, balls in play in 2-strike counts, and some more good ol’ 2-out RBIs.