[rpriske]

April 21st, 1990

After yesterday's loss we are looking to bounce back against the Padres.

San Diego is pitching Shane Rawley (1-0, 3.29).

The Giants have John Burkett (1-1, 6.97).

I have little exposure to Rawley, going 1 for 3.

I kicked things off by flying gout to Junior Felix in centre.

The Padres got on the board in the bottom half when Darrell Sherman scored on a John Kruk single.

Padres lead 1-0

I came up with two out in the 3rd and grounded out to Tom Quinlan at 3rd.

All nine Giants came up in the 4th.
Alvin Davis scored on an Alan Cockrell sac fly.
Ruben Sierra scored on a Robby Thompson sac fly.
Harold Baines scored when John walked with the bases loaded.
I felt out to end the top of the inning.

Giants lead 3-1

I came up in the 7th with John standing on 1st and Butch Henry on the mound.
I got a clean single to left. John moved to 2nd.
We were left there.

I came up in the 8th with two on and two out. I flew out to right.

Bobby Thigpen took over for us in the 8th.
He blew the save when Randy Ready and Ozzie Guillen scored on a Torey Lovullo single.

Game tied 3-3

We took the lead in the 10th, but in an odd way. Dale Murphy scored when Bob Patterson was called for a balk.
I came up with two out and Tim Naehring on 3rd. Gregory Sillivent was pitching.
I grounded out to Sillivent.

Giants lead 4-3

Jim made a couple of defensive changes, bringing in Joel Chimelis and Ryan Klesko for Alvin Davis and Harold Baines.

Mark Williamson took the mound for us.
We had our second blown save of the game when Kruk scored on a Guillen single.

Game tied 4-4

I made a nice play on a Luis Lopez grounder for the 1st out in the bottom of the 11th.

I handled an Armando Verdugo grounder for the 1st out in the bottom of the 12th.
With one out and a man on in the inning, Jim finally brought in the man I think should be our full-time closer, Mark Davis. He also replaced Robby with Craig Grebeck in a double switch.
I caught a Guillen pop for the 2nd out.
I then took care of an Eric Young grounder for the 3rd.

I came up with two out in the 13th and Sterling Hitchcock pitching.
I struck out.

It turns out Mark Davis did no better than the other two. Armando Verdugo hit a 14th inning home run to give the Padres a walk-off, 6-4 win.

And before it seems like I am piling too much criticism on other people, I went 1 for 7 with a single.