The next one was on starter Miles Mikolas although perhaps it wasn’t that big a mistake other than that the result went to the shortest part of the park. After a visit from pitching coach Mike Maddux, Mikolas threw a slider to righthanded-hitting pinch batter Austin Slater who managed to loft it 336 feet and over the 25-foot-high right-field wall for a grand slam, breaking a 1-1 tie and leading to an 8-4 Giants victory.
The Giants didn’t exactly belabor Mikolas in the fourth as Kevin Pillar, hitting ahead of Panik, had looped a single into right center.