Since coming to the San Francisco Giants, Sam Dyson has been a completely different pitcher from the one that took the mound for the Texas Rangers over the first two months of the season. His numbers have improved rapidly since a trade brought him over, to the point that when Mark Melancon was placed on the disabled list because of a recurrence of a pronator strain, Dyson was named the interim closer.
Dyson came through in his first two save opportunities, shutting the door twice in the team’s previous series against the Pittsburgh Pirates for his first saves of the season.