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Durham strikes again as Giants dust off Texas
By Jeremy Harness June 28, 2006 |
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The last time Ray Durham hit one out of the park, it was to win the game in dramatic fashion against the cross-Bay Oakland A’s in the bottom of the ninth last Saturday afternoon. He hit another game-winning home run on Wednesday night, but he hit it much earlier in the game this time. In the third inning, the Giants scored all of their runs in a 5-1 win over the Texas Rangers at AT&T Park, an inning which Durham hit a grand slam into the tunnel over the left-field wall for his eighth long ball of the season. To lead off the inning, Randy Winn and Omar Vizquel each singled, with Pedro Feliz following that up with an RBI single. Barry Bonds was up next and, of course, pitching to him wasn’t exactly what the Rangers had in mind, so they walked him to load the bases. That set things up for Durham, who cleared the bases with one swing and gave the Giants a five-run lead that starter Noah Lowry & Co. had no problem holding on to. Speaking of Lowry, he went 7 2/3 innings and gave up only one earned run - an RBI single by Michael Young in the eighth - on six hits to pick up his third victory of the season. Steve Kline finished the game off the Giants, surrendering only one hit in his 1 1/3 innings of work. Winn, who raised his average to .275, collected two hits for the Giants while Bonds and Mark Sweeney were each walked twice. The Giants will play their last game of interleague play Thursday afternoon against Texas, before playing the rest of the season against the National League. |
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