SAN FRANCISCO — All Gorkys Hernandez could do was turn slightly, bend at the waist and put his hands on his knees as the ball sailed well into the left-field seats.
He didn’t even bother running to the wall. Mark Canha, too, knew the ball was long gone the second it left his bat.
The Athletics’ pinch-hitter flipped his bat to the ground, turned to face his own dugout and galloped down the first-base line while jawing with his teammates after his two-run bomb in the seventh inning put the A’s ahead, 4-3, erasing a Giants lead with often-reliable reliever Tony Watson on the hill.