Those fans should think twice before heckling Joc Pederson again. Pederson clearly heard the intense heckling directed at him in the eighth inning, but he directed his focus on Trevor Gott's pitch and hammered a go-ahead two-run homer. Pederson has essentially been baseball's best hitter so far this season, and Monday night's homer may have been the highlight of the season thus far.
Luis González also played hero after Jake McGee surrendered a game-tying homer in the bottom of the eighth. For González, who's filling in for an injured Steven Duggar, he sure picked a good time to hit his first career home run. What a gritty win this was for the San Francisco Giants, who had this one-game "series" in Milwaukee tacked on to the end of a 10-game road trip due to the delayed start to the season. This would've been a successful trip even with a loss on Monday night; the gritty, comeback win was pure icing on the cake. The Giants went with a bullpen game, and they were going up against reigning Cy Young award winner Corbin Burnes. The bullpen kept the game close until the Giants were able to get Burnes out of the game, and they pounced on a Brewers bullpen that was without Devin Williams and Josh Hader.
The SF Giants are 12-5 with a +39 run differential. It's been a great start to the season, even though they're far from full strength and they have yet to get some key cogs, like Darin Ruf, going at the plate. They had an 8-3 road trip, their best winning percentage on a trip of 10 or more games since 1994. Now they come home to face the Oakland A's, with Carlos Rodón back on the mound. The Giants are well positioned for another victory tonight, although the A's are playing better than people expected after trading away most of their best players this past offseason.
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