Giants win fifth straight on 11th-inning wild pitch
PITTSBURGH — Buster Posey has worn the colors long enough to know what a “Giants win” looks like.
The Giants scored on an 11th-inning wild pitch by Daniel Hudson and beat the Pirates 2-1 for their fifth straight victory, matching their longest streak of the year.
The pitchers had a lot of traffic, they got out of jams, Slater hits a big home run, then we squeak out a run.
The Giants did not swing well after scoring 31 runs in the first four games of the streak.
Austin Slater’s leadoff homer in the sixth, which nobody thought was going to leave the yard off the bat, ended a no-hit bid by Chad Kuhl, who dragged a 5.58 ERA to the mound.
Denard Span scored the go-ahead run when Hudson spiked ball four to Posey off the plate for a wild pitch.
Moore escaped by retrieving an Elias Diaz comebacker that shot off his right leg and tagging Diaz out near first base.
Two of the bigger outs belonged to George Kontos and Sam Dyson, the Giants’ interim closer, who earned the save.
Kontos relieved Moore with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth and struck out Josh Harrison to preserve the 1-1 tie.
Slater uses one of the heaviest bats on the team, 33½ ounces, which helps him produce what Moore called “sneaky power.”
Slater got some grief before the game after video revealed that he took a broken bat to the plate in the eighth inning Friday night, a finable offense in kangaroo court.