NEW YORK — The situations at Yankee Stadium on Saturday afternoon have been much more tenable in comparison with Friday night time, a lot in order that the Giants and Yankees have been in a position to play a full, nine-inning recreation. That mentioned, the bar to clear was as little as the temperature.
The climate was nonetheless frigid. The wind was nonetheless chilling. The rain was nonetheless pervasive. On Friday night time, that was the recipe for San Francisco’s blowout win. On Saturday afternoon, it was the muse for an 8-4 loss to the New York Yankees (8-6) as Jordan Hicks allowed a career-high seven earned runs over four-plus innings.
“Just kind of all over the place,” Hicks mentioned. “First inning, had some traffic. I feel like it takes more to stay warm, stay loose. Besides that, just felt like a normal day pitching. Just got hit around a little bit.”
The biting climate couldn’t calm down Wilmer Flores, who continued his blazing stretch by driving in all 4 of San Francisco’s (10-4) runs and hitting his sixth residence run of the season, a two-run shot that tied him with Aaron Decide, Mike Trout, Kyle Schwarber, Tommy Edman, Tyler Soderstrom and Tommy Edman for essentially the most in all of baseball. Together with the homer, Flores drove in two runs with a single to report his second four-RBI day of the season.
“It feels good. I keep saying it: It just feels good to help the team,” Flores mentioned.
Of the seven runs that Hicks allowed, 5 of them crossed residence plate within the backside of the fifth — a body the place Hicks couldn’t report a single out. Hicks confronted 5 batters within the fifth, and people plate appearances went as follows: single, single, single, double, stroll. Hicks departed with the Giants trailing, 4-2, and Randy Rodríguez inherited loaded bases with no outs.
By the point Rodríguez ended the inning, the Yankees’ lead ballooned to 7-2. Anthony Volpe drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, Jasson Domínguez slapped a two-run single to left and Hicks ended up with an inflated ERA (5.87). Hicks mentioned his physique felt wonderful as he went out for the fifth, however tightened up because the inning went alongside.
“In these conditions, it’s going to be hard to stay that warm for that long,” Hicks mentioned. “Just a battle day. Get them next time and kind of wash that one from the memory because most days you’re going to have better conditions.”
Added Melvin: “I had to give him a little rope there — we got 17 games in a row. But in the second, third and fourth, he looked really good as we’ve seen earlier in this year. Then in the fifth, just couldn’t get an out. (The Yankees) put together some good at-bats and strung them together on him.”
Hicks’ velocity was noticeably down with all 4 of his pitches. In comparison with his season common, his sinker was 1.7 mph slower whereas his splitter was 1.8 mph slower. Hicks attributed the drop to the situations, assessing that at this time’s climate was within the top-five of coldest video games he’s ever pitched in.
“You’re not going to be fully as hot as an 80 degree day,” Hicks mentioned. “I wasn’t really too worried about the velo. It had good action. It actually had a lot more movement today than any of my other starts and had some sinkers run a little too much. Wasn’t really expecting that, but that’s what you deal with coming from West Coast to East Coast.”
Hicks’ outing was on a distinct trajectory previous to the fifth inning. After permitting two runs within the backside of the primary on Cody Bellinger’s RBI triple and Paul Goldschmidt’s sacrifice fly, Hicks posted scoreless innings within the second, third and fourth, getting run assist within the second on Flores’ two-run homer.
“It’s pretty insane,” Hicks mentioned of Flores. “It’s fun to watch. Only got to see spurts of it last year, so to see Flo in his element, it’s been really fun to watch and a good surprise.”
The Giants had a possibility to make a final ditch comeback within the prime of the ninth inning, placing runners on second and third with no outs, however squandered the chance as they completed 2-for-11 with runners in scoring place.
Value noting
Jung Hoo Lee has now reached base safely in 12 of the 13 video games he’s performed this 12 months after drawing a stroll and hitting a double.
Initially Printed: April 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM PDT
