Giants Doomed By Homers, Errors vs Dodgers

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw threw two wild pitches and gave up three runs in seven innings Friday night. That's as close to human as he gets in the regular season, but a sloppy Giants team couldn't come close to taking advantage of it.The middle infielders made three errors, including two costly ones in a four-run fourth inning, as the Giants lost 7-3 in the ninth career matchup between Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner. The Giants' ace wasn't helped by his defense, but he also was undone by three pitches to his personal version of Paul Goldschmidt: utility man Enrique Hernandez. Giants Go Deep, Walk Off on Dodgers Hernandez entered the day 8-for-24 in six career starts against the Giants, and he wasted no time against Bumgarner. The left-hander's first pitch of the night was a fastball that caught too much of the plate and Hernandez blasted it 451 feet to center. In the third Hernandez got another elevated fastball and hit this one 435 feet to left.With that homer, Hernandez improved to 9-for-15 off Bumgarner, with three homers. He wasn't done, but first, the Giants had to take turns making a mess of the fourth. California Getting Rain But Not Enough to Ease Drought The...