The Giants have held three leads in their past six meetings with the Dodgers — and none Tuesday night.
SAN FRANCISCO — After mostly standing pat Tuesday afternoon at baseball’s trade deadline, Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi justified his decision not to dismantle a team freefalling out of playoff position by reasoning, “a hot two weeks can turn it around.
“I feel like we have a good team. I feel like the playoffs are within our reach, for sure” said starter Alex Wood, who allowed six runs over 5⅓ innings. “It’s just consistently playing up to our ability. … This month we’ve obviously not played our best baseball. I feel like we’ve played at our floor. It’s nice to be able to move forward with the team we have and still feel like we have a fighting shot to reach the playoffs.
In the four-run second, as Zaidi watched from the NBC Sports Bay Area broadcast booth, the Giants allowed two catchable fly balls to land in front of diving outfielders, botched a pickoff move that ended up in center field and allowed an extra base when center fielder Austin Slater struggled to pick up one of the balls that fell in front of LaMonte Wade Jr. Wood also plunked soft-hitting catcher Austin Barnes, who came around to score the last of the Dodgers’ four runs.
It was, at least, a banner day for Bart, coming hours after the club traded away veteran backup Curt Casali in a move Zaidi described as a “vote of confidence” in the young catcher. In addition to the 408-foot shot he slugged into the Giants’ bullpen, he finished off a strike-’em-out, throw-’em-out double play for the final out of the top half of the sixth and laid down a bunt base hit in the bottom half.
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