PHOENIX - One beauty and challenge of baseball is the incessant need to adjust to the unexpected. In a perfect world, that does not happen in Game 2. Who said this is a perfect world?
The Giants earned their first victory of the season Tuesday night, 8-4 over the Diamondbacks, with regular leadoff hitter and center field Denard Span nursing a tight hip on the bench and Johnny Cueto done after five innings.
So in stepped an understudy at the plate and the bullpen to guide the win.
Gorkys Hernandez started in place of Span and drove in four runs with a single and double, matching his RBI total as a Giants last year.