Attempted Beanballs, Ejection Sparks Giants in 6-2 Victory
Justice delos Santos
Jul 9, 2016
3 min read
There are a lot of unwritten rules in the game of baseball, but there is one rule which applies specifically to the San Francisco Giants.
When a team plays the orange and black, the one rule it must follow, mandated by Bruce Bochy and every single Giants fan alive, is do not harm Buster Posey.
Since the collision at the plate back in 2011, Buster Posey has been placed in a glass box in the minds of players, coaches, and fans.
The injury deprived the Giants of being able to see the majority of Posey's sophomore season, but arguably a shot at the playoffs following the franchise's first World Series title in San Francisco.
From that point on, if anyone comes marginally close to injuring Posey, especially at AT&T Park, that player will justifiably be booed and instantly become pubic enemy number one.
Just a few weeks ago, Aaron Nola nearly plunked Buster Posey, and all those in attendance greeted the Philadelphia starter by calling for his head.
In the third to last game before the All-Star Break, Patrick Corbin, thinking he was above the law of the land, decided to throw at the former MVP.
After the Diamondbacks had put up two runs against Jeff Samardzija in the first inning, the Arizona lefty threw at Posey not once, but twice, causing Bochy to storm out and argue with home plate umpire, Quinn Wolcott, and eventually get tossed from the game.
The first throw at Posey did not appear to be intentional, but the second was behind the catcher, which caused Bochy to storm out in a fit of rage.
Corbin's attempted beanballs and Bochy's ejection sparked the entire dugout, and following a Posey walk, Brandon Crawford, snubbed from his second All-Star appearance, to take revenge and tie the ballgame up with a two-run home run that just made it to the right-field arcade.
The incident may have been in response to Jeff Samardzija hitting Jean Segura after the shortstop hit a solo shot on the first pitch of the game, driving in one of Arizona's two runs in the first inning.
Following the incident, Samardzija righted the ship, holding the Diamondback scoreless from the from the first inning on, and the Giants went on to score four more runs on route to a 6-2 win.
San Francisco's bullpen, which has been at the center of criticism, combined to pitch 2.2 innings of scoreless baseball via the efforts of Derek Law, Sergio Romo, and Hunter Strickland.
Romo, in just his second appearance back from the disabled list, struck out the side in his inning of work. Law struck out one of the two batters he faced as well.
Crawford fell a triple short of the cycle, but along with his two-run home run in the second inning, he added an RBI single, a double, and a walk finishing the day with three totals RBIs, bringing his total to a shortstop leading 58 on the season.
Gregor Blanco was responsible for one of the runs, hitting the first pinch-hit home run of his career with solo shot in the bottom of the eighth.
In his return from the disabled list, Denard Span went hitless in five at-bats, but he had an incredible running catch towards Triples Alley in the ninth.
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