OAKLAND — Bruce Bochy looked crushed.
As the Giants manager sat in the visitor’s dugout at the Oakland Coliseum on Saturday afternoon, he lamented how disappointed he was to lose infielder Pablo Sandoval to season-ending Tommy John surgery.
His expression in the midst of his team’s eight-run, eighth-inning rally was quite different.
Bochy was all smiles as the Giants (64-65) overcame a two-run deficit with their biggest inning of the season in a 10-5 victory over the hottest team in baseball.
Center fielder Kevin Pillar broke a 4-4 tie with a two-run double down the right field line and designated hitter Stephen Vogt launched an opposite-field, three-run home run to cap off a furious rally in an inning that featured five different A’s relievers.