SAN FRANCISCO — Rafael Devers by no means harbored any issues about hitting in San Francisco at a venue infamous for favoring pitchers. In Devers’ thoughts, there was nothing to vary. The baseball, in any case, remains to be the identical.
“I know that I’m a power hitter,” Devers mentioned by means of workforce interpreter Erwin Higueros on Friday. “If I hit the ball good, I know it will go out of any ballpark.”
Any ballpark, after all, consists of Oracle Park. On Saturday afternoon at China Basin, Devers proved his energy will play within the Bay. Towards, appropriately sufficient, a workforce that is aware of his energy all too effectively.
Together with his first homer as a Big, a two-run, opposite-field shot, Devers powered San Francisco to a 3-2 win over the Boston Pink Sox — the one major-league workforce Devers had identified for greater than a decade. In Boston, Devers blossomed into one in every of baseball’s greatest gamers. In San Francisco, the Pink Sox can solely watch their former star from afar.
Together with their new acquisition, the Giants noticed a litany of homegrown expertise star in Saturday’s win.
Heliot Ramos served because the appetizer to Devers by hitting his thirteenth residence run of the season, a solo shot that landed within the Giants’ bullpen. Landen Roupp bounced again from a tough begin towards the Los Angeles Dodgers (1 2/3 innings, six runs) by tossing six scoreless innings.
Saturday, although, was Devers’ day.
Devers went hitless over 5 at-bats in his first recreation towards Boston in Friday’s 7-5 loss, then grounded out in his first plate look of the sport. In his seventh at-bat towards his former workforce, Devers lastly met the second.
Within the backside of the third, the Pink Sox’s Brayan Bello started his battle towards Devers with a 95.7 mph four-seam exterior fastball for a referred to as strike. Bello tried going again to that effectively; Devers despatched the providing over the left-field fence for this sixteenth residence run of the season.
The ninth inning was not with out drama. Camilo Doval entered the ballgame with the Giants main 3-0, however allowed a pair of runs on Wilyer Abreu’s RBI single and a throwing error by catcher Andrew Knizner that allowed a runner to attain. The Pink Sox bought the tying run 90 ft away, however Doval managed to close the door on the win.
