• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

San Francisco Sports Today

San Francisco Sports News Continuously Updated

  • Baseball
    • A’s
    • Giants
  • Football
    • 49’ers
    • Raiders
  • Basketball
    • Kings
    • Warriers
  • Sharks
  • Earthquakes
  • Colleges
    • San Jose State
    • Stanford
    • University of California, Berkeley

Alex Wood sets pace in walk-off

June 9, 2022 by McCovey Chronicles

San Francisco Giants celebrate walk-off win against the Colorado Rockies
Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

San Francisco wins 2-1 in 10 innings with sharp pitching, strong defense, and a Charlie Blackmon whoopsie

When your team is in a bit of a funk, best not to over complicate things. Alex Wood kept things simple and he kept things moving on Wednesday night, throwing 7 innings of 1 run ball against the Colorado Rockies in about the same runtime as Pixar’s “Monster’s Inc.”

69 of Wood’s 101 pitches were strikes. He K’ed 5, walked none, and kept balls on the ground. It was Wood’s longest outing of the season and the pace he maintained over the 7 innings was effectively brisk. He was the dog unraveling its leash to its full length, pushing forward, pulling everyone else along, restrained not by choice but by the overarching structures of the game. If Wood could pitch without having to wait for a ball, he would.

“I was really happy he let me go tonight.”

Alex Wood was pleased that Gabe Kapler let him pitch deep into the game tonight pic.twitter.com/CQSrH2oeAU

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) June 9, 2022

The only drag of the game was that Rockies’s starter Antonio Senzatela, who matched Wood’s pace and effectiveness. He went 6 innings, struck 6, walked 1 and allowed 1 run. On paper, he was a pitcher you’d expect the San Francisco Giants (and most Major League teams) to tee off on.

Senzatela throws a 94 MPH 4-seam fastball around 50% of the time. It’s a pitch that hasn’t been great for him this season: the league is hitting it and hitting it hard. But his game isn’t to blow you away, it’s pitching to contact, it’s location—and that’s what Senzatela did. He put on his white coveralls and spent the evening painting the corners of the plate, mixing in his secondary slider and change-up to great effect.

In the 6th, facing the heart of the order for the third time, he struck out Joc Pederson, Darin Ruf and Tommy La Stella.

For the fastball diners, the meal was a tease. Pederson struck out three times against Senzatela, with four total on the night. Wilmer Flores made loud contact but was unable to elevate anything over the head of any outfielders.

It would’ve been nice to have an offensive outburst line-up with such an effective outing from the pitching staff. But that’s not how life works (and who really wants to be spoiled like that anyway?)

The runs were few and far between for either team. The Rockies slapped 3 consecutive, shift-busting singles in the third to take the lead. The Giants answered in the fourth with a two-out RBI of their own: a Thairo Estrada dying fly to left that cashed in Darin Ruf’s one-out double.

San Francisco had another scoring opportunity in the 5th with one-out and runners at the corners. Luis González was thrown out at the plate attempting to score on Wilmer Flores’ line out to Charlie Blackmon in right.

“This is one of our better defensive games in recent memory.”

Kapler was pleased with the Giants’ defense in big moments pic.twitter.com/eI05W0I0AG

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) June 9, 2022

The pleasant surprise of the night was the Giants defense. They’ve been under a bit of scrutiny as of late—their inability to convert certain ground balls into outs, their outfield range. Wilmer Flores playing third, Darin Ruf at first, Donovan Walton at short—all competent…sure…but this is not the infield Kapler drew up pre-season. I wouldn’t say the speculation was put to rest, but in this game, the leather was working.

Thairo Estrada made a nice backhand play up the middle. Walton showed his range as he kept Brandon Crawford’s seat warm. Ruf spent his evening picking short hops at first.

YAZ WHAT A CATCH pic.twitter.com/BOsFgVKRdP

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) June 9, 2022

With Charlie Blackmon on second in the Rockies’ 6th, Yaz laid out in right center to take a hit away from C.J. Cron and keep a run off the board. In the 10th, with another runner in scoring position, Joc Pederson tracked down a Ryan McMahon liner to deep left in support of Camilo Doval.

In the bottom of the inning, Luis González flipped a single into right in front of a charging Charlie Blackmon. After what happened in the 5th, Donovan Walton wasn’t going to push for home, he didn’t get a good jump anyway. But an over-zealous Blackmon—maybe convinced that Walton was going to challenge him—overran the ball and allowed the winning run to score.

GONZALEZ COMES THROUGH AND THE GIANTS (EVENTUALLY) WALK IT OFF pic.twitter.com/ICOVkrZNo3

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) June 9, 2022

As they say in Baseball Economics 101, run prevention is akin to run accumulation and the Giants’ defense stepped up when the bats didn’t.

A win is a win is a win and sometimes 2 runs spread thin over 10 innings is enough to tally a ‘W’.

Filed Under: Giants

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • What was the best 49ers’ win the last five years?
  • Can you guess this 49ers QB in today’s in-5 trivia game?
  • Mike Florio lists 49ers as one of five legitimate NFC Super Bowl contenders
  • Willy Adames has got your back
  • Kraken sign forward Tye Kartye to a two-year, $2.5 million contract extension

Categories

  • 49'ers
  • A's
  • Earthquakes
  • Giants
  • Kings
  • Raiders
  • San Jose State
  • Sharks
  • Stanford
  • Uncategorized
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Warriers

Archives

  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021

Our Partners

All Sports

  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • San Francisco Examiner
  • The Mercury News
  • 247 Sports
  • Bleacher Report
  • Forgotten 5
  • Golden Gate Sports
  • The Sports Fan Journal
  • The Spun
  • USA Today

Baseball

  • San Francisco Giants
  • Oakland A's
  • Last Word On Baseball - Oakland A's
  • Last Word On Baseball - San Francisco Giants
  • MLB Trade Rumors - A's
  • MLB Trade Rumors - Giants
  • White Cleat Beat
  • Around The Foghorn
  • Athletics Nation
  • McCovey Chronicles

Basketball

  • Golden State Warriors
  • Sacramento Kings
  • A Royal Pain
  • Amico Hoops - Kings
  • Amico Hoops - Warriors
  • Blue Man Hoop
  • Golden State Of Mind
  • Hoops Hype - Warriors
  • Hoops Hype - Kings
  • Hoops Rumors - Warriors
  • Hoops Rumors - Kings
  • Lets Go Warriors
  • Last Word On Pro Basketball - Golden State
  • Last Word On Pro Basketball - Sacramento
  • Pro Basketball Talk - Warriors
  • Pro Basketball Talk - Kings
  • Real GM - Warriors
  • Real GM - Kings
  • Sactown Royalty

Football

  • San Francisco 49ers
  • Las Vegas Raiders
  • 49ers Gab
  • Just Blog Baby
  • Last Word On Pro Football
  • NFL Trade Rumors - San Francisco 49ers
  • NFL Trade Rumors - Las Vegas Raiders
  • Niners Nation
  • Niner Noise
  • Niners Wire
  • Our Turf Football
  • Pro Football Rumors - 49ers
  • Pro Football Rumors - Raiders
  • Pro Football Talk - 49ers
  • Pro Football Talk - Raiders
  • Raiders Wire
  • Silver And Black Pride
  • Total 49ers

Hockey

  • Blades Of Teal
  • Fear The Fin
  • Last Word On Hockey
  • Pro Hockey Rumors
  • Pro Hockey Talk
  • The Hockey Writers

Soccer

  • Center Line Soccer
  • Last Word on Soccer
  • MLS Multiplex

College

  • Busting Brackets
  • California Golden Blogs
  • College Sports Madness
  • College Football News
  • Rule Of Tree
  • Saturday Blitz
  • The Daily Californian
  • The Stanford Daily
  • Zags Blog

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in