Getting your player ready...
Carlos Gonzalez never met a first pitch he didn’t like. He went into Friday hitting .404 (19-for-47) with three home runs when he swung at the first pitch. And what pitch did his two-run, third-inning home run come on? You guessed it. Numero uno.
Heating up.
Jason Giambi’s third-inning ground-rule double was his 10th hit in 19 at-bats in July. It also marked the sixth straight plate appearance in which he had reached base. His quest for seven in a row, a mark Dexter Fowler reached earlier in the homestand, died when he lined out in the fifth.
Coming up short(stop).
Clint Barmes entered the game with five errors, but had two more in the first five innings, albeit on tough chances. Both led to unearned runs.
