The Giants got another strong outing from the top of their rotation, and they also got a crucial home run from Joe Panik for the second straight game.
Bruce Bochy has a thing now, and I'm not sure if it's a new thing. There's no easy way to search for it, no box to toggle on Baseball-Reference. But it's been pretty noticeable for the first two months of the season, and it goes like this: When Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto, or Jeff Samardzija finish the sixth, seventh, or eighth inning around 100 pitches, maybe a little above or below, they get to start the next inning.