Thairo Estrada homered with one out in the sixth to break up a scoreless game, Wilmer Flores hit a two-run drive three batters later, and the San Francisco Giants came alive on offense to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-0.
As trying a baseball journey as Wade Meckler had to reach the majors only a year after being drafted, Giants manager Gabe Kapler knew he had to defend the rookie center fielder playing just his second big league game.
"To get one feels very thrilling," Meckler said of coming through after an 0-for-3 performance with two strikeouts in his debut Monday."I don't want to come off as disrespectful to them and say anything, even if I say in a respectful way they might say I've played two major league games. Just keep making the right swing decisions and eventually build a reputation I know what the strike zone is and if I say something there's a cause behind it.
Jakob Junis struck out seven over four scoreless innings then gave way to Sean Manaea , who struck out five and allowed one hit over 3 1/3 scoreless innings for the win. "One day we'll have monitors in the dugout and be able to watch this stuff because you actually see the game even better than you do from the dugout. That was a really fun moment," Kapler said."It was great to see Joc break out in that big smile, both in the moment and then the camera panned to him in the dugout after the call was confirmed on the field and just a huge smile comes out.
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