Giants Miss Chance To Clinch NL West, Fall To Padres In 10th

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants missed a accidental to clinch the NL West connected their ain field, falling to the San Diego Padres 3-2 erstwhile Jake Cronenworth deed an RBI treble successful the 10th inning Saturday.

A sellout assemblage of 40,760 was acceptable to observe San Francisco’s archetypal part crown since 2012, but the Padres spoiled the party, sending the raucous radical to the exits successful a authorities of disbelief.

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“Obviously, we wanted to triumph the crippled and not person to trust connected idiosyncratic else,” Giants 3rd baseman Evan Longoria said. “I deliberation close now, the absorption turns to time and conscionable doing what we’ve done the full year, trying to erase the time earlier and spell retired determination and triumph the adjacent game.”

The Giants’ seven-game winning streak ended, but they inactive had an accidental to triumph the West hours aboriginal — a nonaccomplishment by the second-place Los Angeles Dodgers to Milwaukee would springiness San Francisco the crown.

If the Dodgers win, it would support the Giants’ magic fig astatine 1 and unit the contention to the last time of the regular season. San Francisco started Saturday with a two-game pb implicit Los Angeles.

“We’re expecting to play a meaningful crippled tomorrow,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “Obviously, we’ll wage attraction to the Milwaukee-Los Angeles game, but we’re expecting that tomorrow’s crippled is going to beryllium the 1 that we request to win.”

With runners connected the corners and 2 outs successful the apical of the 10th, Cronenworth lined a treble to close disconnected Jarlin García to springiness San Diego its archetypal pb of the game.

Mark Melancon retired the Giants successful bid successful the bottommost fractional to gain his large league-leading 39th prevention of the season. Tim Hill (6-6) got the win.

Manny Machado drove successful 2 runs for the Padres, who snapped a seven-game losing streak amid rumors that manager Jayce Tingler mightiness beryllium managing his last games with the franchise.

“Look, I perceive the aforesaid things you hear, but astatine the aforesaid time, trying to beryllium present, trying to manage,” Tingler said. “I consciousness atrocious for the sound for the guys but truly arrogant of the mode that they’ve been busting it. They deserved the triumph today. They went retired and played well.

“(General manager) A. J. (Preller) and I person been talking, we’ll speech postgame, we’ll speech time morning. Look, I don’t person societal media, I bash person a telephone and I get a batch of texts, truthful look, I get it. At the aforesaid time, I effort to unrecorded what I practice, preach, with the guys, trying to destruct noise,” helium said.

Kris Bryant singled location Brandon Crawford successful the 2nd inning to springiness San Francisco an aboriginal 1-0 lead.

The Padres tied it astatine 1 successful the sixth connected an RBI azygous by Machado, but the Giants instantly regained the pb successful the bottommost fractional connected Austin Slater’s 12th location run, a pinch-hit blast.

San Diego tied it astatine 2 successful the eighth connected a sacrifice alert by Machado.

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Kervin Castro (1-1) was charged with the nonaccomplishment for San Francisco.

PINCH-HIT RECORD

Slater’s thrust marked the Giants’ 18th pinch-hit homer of the season, mounting an MLB record. It was Slater’s 4th pinch-hit location tally of the year, tying the franchise record.

FOR STARTERS

Giants starter Kevin Gausman fanned 5 successful 7 stellar innings, allowing conscionable 1 tally connected six hits. San Diego’s Joe Musgrove gave up 1 tally connected 3 hits successful 5 innings, striking retired four.

“Obviously, we would’ve liked to punch our summons contiguous and benignant of bash it ourselves,” Gausman said. “It’s unfortunate we mislaid contiguous but, you know, we’ll triumph tomorrow.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Padres: RHP Yu Darvish is optimistic astir his offseason betterment from a near hep impingement that landed him connected the 10-day injured database Thursday. “I don’t deliberation it’s that bad,” Darvish said done an interpreter. “Moving forward, it volition beryllium immoderate rest, and aft that, it volition beryllium immoderate rehab. I’ll beryllium doing that erstwhile we deed the offseason with the guys successful the grooming room.”

Giants: Closer Jake McGee (right oblique strain) was reinstated from the 10-day IL. The left-hander has recorded 31 saves successful 36 opportunities this season.

ROSTER MOVES

Padres: Optioned RHP Pedro Avila to Triple-A El Paso and recalled RHP James Norwood.

Giants: Optioned INF Thairo Estrada to Triple-A Sacramento.

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Giants RHP Logan Webb (10-3, 2.93 ERA) looks for his 10th consecutive triumph successful Sunday’s regular-season finale. The Padres volition antagonistic with RHP Reiss Knehr (1-1, 4.85).