The Giants posted their second straight two-game road sweep, this time going to Atlanta to win a pair of contests. Scott Garrelts picked up his 20th win and Kevin Mitchell increased his season totals to 44 home runs and 133 runs batted in. After 140 games, the Giants are 13 wins ahead of pace.
sim 94-46, actual 81-59
September 6 — sim W 8-2 — actual W 7-2
September 7 — sim W 3-2 (12) — actual W 7-5
September 6 — The Giants pounded out 17 hits and easily could have had more than eight runs, but they left 12 runners on base. After being stuck on 19 wins for a couple of starts, Scott Garrelts got the victory and only made one bad pitch, a two-run homer to John Russell in the fifth inning. The Giants were already ahead 5-0 at that point, however. Kevin Mitchell had a two-run triple in the first inning and a two-run homer in the seventh.
1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (8) AT 1989 ATLANTA BRAVES (2)
1989 SAN FRANCISCO G AB R H BI 1989 ATLANTA BRAVES AB R H BI
Brett Butler 5 1 1 0 Oddibe McDowell 4 0 0 0
Robby Thompson 6 1 2 0 Jeff Treadway 4 0 1 0
Will Clark 5 3 3 1 Lonnie Smith 4 0 1 0
Kevin Mitchell 5 1 3 4 Dale Murphy 2 0 0 0
Matt Williams 3 2 1 1 Tommy Gregg 4 0 0 0
Donell Nixon 5 0 3 1 Jeff Blauser 4 0 0 0
Kirt Manwaring 5 0 1 0 Andres Thomas 3 1 0 0
Jose Uribe 5 0 3 1 John Russell 3 1 1 2
Scott Garrelts AYZ 3 0 0 0 Derek Lilliquist DZ 1 0 0 0
Pat Sheridan 1 0 0 0 Ed Whited 1 0 0 0
Geronimo Berroa 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 43 8 17 8 TOTALS 31 2 3 2
1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 200 030 300 -- 8
1989 ATLANTA BRAVES 000 020 000 -- 2
LOB--1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 12, 1989 ATLANTA BRAVES 4.
ERR--Jose Uribe. 2B--Matt Williams. 3B--Kevin Mitchell.
HR--Kevin Mitchell, John Russell. SACB--Scott Garrelts AYZ.
SB--Jose Uribe, Brett Butler, Donell Nixon (2), Lonnie
Smith.
1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Scott Garrelts AYZ [W] 8.00 3 2 1 2 11 1
Randy McCament DW 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
1989 ATLANTA BRAVES
Derek Lilliquist DZ [L] 5.00 9 5 5 1 7 0
Sergio Valdez DX 2.00 5 3 3 2 2 1
Joe Boever CX 2.00 3 0 0 0 3 0
SO--Jose Uribe (2), Matt Williams (2), Scott Garrelts AYZ
(3), Robby Thompson, Kirt Manwaring, Will Clark, Pat
Sheridan, Donell Nixon, Tommy Gregg (2), Andres Thomas,
Lonnie Smith, Oddibe McDowell (2), Jeff Blauser (3), Ed
Whited, Jeff Treadway, Derek Lilliquist DZ. BB--Matt
Williams (2), Brett Butler, Dale Murphy (2).
September 7 — The Giants only had two hits in the first 11 innings. Both came in the fifth inning, including starting pitcher Rick Reuschel’s two-RBI single. Two of Atlanta’s five hits came in the seventh inning, including a two-RBI triple by John Russell to tie the game. San Francisco relievers retired all 12 batters they faced from the ninth inning on. In the top of the 12th, Will Clark led off with a single and scored on Kevin Mitchell’s double — the team’s third and fourth hits of the contest.
1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (3) AT 1989 ATLANTA BRAVES (2)
1989 SAN FRANCISCO G AB R H BI 1989 ATLANTA BRAVES AB R H BI
Brett Butler 5 0 0 0 Oddibe McDowell 5 0 2 0
Robby Thompson 4 0 0 0 Jeff Treadway 5 0 0 0
Will Clark 5 1 1 0 Lonnie Smith 5 0 0 0
Kevin Mitchell 4 1 2 1 Dale Murphy 5 0 0 0
Matt Williams 5 0 0 0 Darrell Evans 4 0 0 0
Pat Sheridan 4 1 0 0 Jeff Blauser 2 0 0 0
Terry Kennedy 5 0 0 0 Ed Whited 2 1 0 0
Jose Uribe 4 0 0 0 Andres Thomas 5 1 1 0
Rick Reuschel BZ 3 0 1 2 John Russell 4 0 2 2
Ernest Riles 1 0 0 0 Marty Clary CZ 1 0 0 0
Tommy Gregg 1 0 0 0
Gerald Perry 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 40 3 4 3 TOTALS 40 2 5 2
1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 000 020 000 001 -- 3
1989 ATLANTA BRAVES 000 000 200 000 -- 2
LOB--1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 5, 1989 ATLANTA BRAVES 5.
ERR--Kevin Mitchell, John Russell. 2B--Kevin Mitchell.
3B--John Russell. SACB--Marty Clary CZ.
1989 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Rick Reuschel BZ 8.00 5 2 2 2 7 0
Jeff Brantley DY 2.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
Steve Bedrosian BY [W] 2.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
1989 ATLANTA BRAVES
Marty Clary CZ 7.00 2 2 2 3 4 0
Mike Stanton BXYZ 3.00 0 0 0 1 5 0
Jose Alvarez CX [L] 2.00 2 1 1 0 1 0
SO--Rick Reuschel BZ, Terry Kennedy, Matt Williams (2),
Brett Butler, Robby Thompson (2), Will Clark, Pat Sheridan
(2), Dale Murphy (2), Darrell Evans (2), Lonnie Smith, Jeff
Blauser, John Russell, Jeff Treadway. BB--Jose Uribe, Kevin
Mitchell, Robby Thompson, Pat Sheridan, Darrell Evans, Ed
Whited.
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