There's no cure quite like a weekend with the Philadelphia Phillies.The Giants hammered the Phillies' poor pitching staff for a second straight night, winning 8-5 at AT&T Park. The lineup got off to a slow start but scored seven runs in the sixth and seventh innings.A night after tagging Phillies ace Cole Hamels for a career-high nine earned runs, the Giants managed just one off of righty David Buchanan, who entered with an 0-5 record and 8.76 ERA. When Buchanan and Ryan Vogelsong exited in the sixth, the Giants trailed 4-1.The game was tied at one when Ryan Howard hit a solo homer to right with two outs in the sixth. Vogelsong walked the next batter, Carlos Ruiz, and then gave up a two-run homer to Cody Asche that splashed down in the cove. The "splash hit" was the 105th all-time at AT&T Park and the first by a Phillie.The Giants wasted one opportunity after another against Buchanan, and it looked like they would do it in the sixth, too. But Angel Pagan hit a two-out, two-run double into the right-field corner, cutting the deficit to one. Pagan went 78 games without a multi-RBI game before doing it the first two nights of this series.After a walk of Joe Panik, Matt Duffy...
Giants Bats Find Late Life To Take Down Phillies
Published July 11, 2015 at 11:40 PM
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