PITTSBURGH – Brandon Crawford sprayed a foul ball over the Pirates dugout. He dribbled another off the end of his bat. He hugged the wrong side of the first base line. He got a piece of something down and in.
His plate appearance with the bases loaded in the fourth inning of the Giants’ 15-4 victory Tuesday night was neither as damaging nor as memorable as the coffin-lidded grand slam he hit here in the 2014 NL Wild Card game.
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But the 11-pitch walk he drew amounted to a month-long siege, as much as it weakened Pirates pitcher Wilfredo Boscan.