Four of the Giants’ home runs came in a two-inning span against Dodgers starter Andrew Heaney. The Dodgers hit two of their own but couldn’t catch up.
LOS ANGELES — It was a different kind of flex alert.
“That was accurate,” Freddie Freeman said of the scouting report – and science – that says Dodger Stadium becomes much more hitter-friendly in the heat. “A couple of them would have been homers no matter what. But I’m not used to the 100s and the 101s at 35 going out. We could have done the same, but they had a really good sinkerballer on the mound . They had the homer balls going today.”
Heaney has often had a home run problem during his career. He has allowed 1.6 for every nine innings he has pitched as a major-leaguer fueled by the occasional long-ball bender like the 10 he gave up in his first 28 innings after being traded to the New York Yankees last summer, dooming his time in New York.
“When you’re a two-pitch pitcher – there were some changeups in there, but predominantly a fastball pitcher,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Heaney, who threw 55 fastballs, 27 sliders and eight changeups against the Giants. “He made some mistakes in the middle of the plate and they took advantage.
Thairo Estrada changed things up, leading off the fourth inning by hitting a changeup from Heaney over the wall. Three batters later, David Villar sent a first-pitch fastball into the right field pavilion for a two-run homer, the Giants’ fourth home run in an eight-batter stretch. In between the long balls, Heaney was difficult to hit. He gave up just two hits that didn’t go over a wall, struck out eight and got 19 swings-and-misses in 5⅓ innings.
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