Oakland Athletics vs San Francisco Giants Match Player Stats On Aug 03, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Aug 4, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO -- Ty Blach had himself a day and then some, tossing eight innings and contributing a three-run homer to the San Francisco Giants' 11-2 win over the Oakland A's on Thursday night.

The left-hander pitched with a big cushion almost from the beginning as the Giants' offense strung six hits in the space of seven batters in the first inning to jump to a 4-0 lead.

An inning later, Brandon Belt's two-run homer capped a three-run inning, moving San Francisco into a formidable 7-0 lead.

The game was never close after that. The A's got one run on an RBI hit from Matt Chapman in the fourth, and Rajai Davis led off the eighth with a solo homer. Beyond that, the night was all Giants.

Blach, who owned just seven hits and no homers in 71 career at-bats coming into the game, stepped up in the fifth inning with San Francisco leading 8-1 and crushed a ball over the fence in center field off Chris Smith.

Before the night was done, Blach had pitched eight innings for just the third time in his career. He allowed six hits and two runs, walked one and struck out four.

Oakland starter Kendall Graveman, making his first start since May 19, had 29 of his 40 pitches go for strikes, but the Giants were on most of them. They raked the right-hander for seven runs, eight hits and a walk in his two innings. It was the second-shortest start of his career.

Then the Giants roughed up Smith for four more runs in the fifth en route to an 11-1 lead.

Graveman, who had been limited to eight starts thanks to two bouts of shoulder tightness that sent him to the disabled list, began to get beat up one out into the bottom of the first. Ryder Jones, Belt, Buster Posey and Brandon Crawford all put together consecutive hits and scored -- the last two on a double from just-activated outfielder Jarrett Parker.

An inning later, Denard Span doubled and scored on Jones' single. Belt followed with a two-run homer.

NOTES: San Francisco 1B Brandon Belt's 18th homer matched his career best. It was his eighth homer in AT&T Park. No other Giants hitter has more than four. ... Before the game, San Francisco activated Jarrett Parker, and the left fielder doubled twice in his first three at-bats, driving in three runs in his first start since sustaining a broken clavicle April 15. ... To get RHP Kendall Graveman on the roster, the A's demoted RHP Daniel Gossett, who had thrown seven one-run innings one night earlier. ... The Giants will activate RHP Chris Stratton (right calf strain) from the disabled list to start Saturday against Arizona. ... A's LF Khris Davis was back in the lineup Thursday after getting a day off to rest a troublesome hamstring. He went 1-for-4.