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San Francisco, CA – It was a rare night for hitting triples but Yasiel Puig managed to hit enough to stifle the Giants. Puig hit three triples to match Jimmy Sheckard (three triples on April 18, 1901 vs Philadelphia) for the most in a game in franchise history.

When asked about Puig’s night, San Francisco’s manager Bruce Bochy declined to discuss his historic night but did say “I don’t really want to, he had a good night, I’ll say that,” said Bochy with a smile. “When made some mistakes and good hitters take advantage of that.”

The Giants avoided a shutout in their 8-1 loss when they attempted a rally in the ninth to only muster one run. San Francisco tried to rally with the bases loaded and one out. Closer Paul Maholm loaded the bases twice but Tyler Colvin was the only player to hit a RBI single putting the Giants on the board.

Coming into tonight’s game San Francisco owned the best record in their division but the Dodgers made it clear they are not far behind. They added on four runs in the fifth knocking Tim Lincecum out of the game. The Dodgers also tied a franchise record with five triples in one game.

“I saw I’m the second guy in franchise history, and it’s important, but it’s way better to win a the playoffs and win the World Series,” Puig said when asked how he felt about his three triples.

Puig went 4-for-5 with three triples and a double. He set a career high with his four base hits. Puig set the tone with a triple in the first followed by Adrian Gonzalez RBI single making it a 1-0 game. But the boys in blue opened up their offense in the fifth with six hits scoring five runs.

Zack Greinke started the offensive surge with a single, Dee Gordon followed with a RBI triple. Puig followed with a RBI triple, Gonzalez followed with a RBI single and Matt Kemp cleared the bases with a two-run triple extending the Dodgers lead 6-0. Puig added on two more runs with a triple in the seventh.

“That was crazy, never seen anything like that,” aid Kemp referring to Puig’s three triples.

Lincecum had been one of the leagues best starters last month but showed no signs of that when he unraveled in the fifth. He tossed 4 1/3 innings allowing nine hits, six runs and six strikeouts. His ERA jumped from 3.65 to 3.96 snapping his 27.0 home scoreless streak in the first inning.

“I got away from my plan,” Lincecum said. “I didn’t throw as many breaking balls as I wanted to. That’s been the equalizer for me in keeping guys honest, it makes that fastball look a little bit faster an I really wasn’t doing that today, at least not in that inning.”

Notes – The injuries continue to take a toll for the Giants. Second base remains an issue, Marco Scutaro returned to the lineup last week while the team was on the road but has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a lower back strain.

Joe Panik whose been playing second base left Tuesday’s game in the second inning with a sprained right ankle and he is day-to-day. The Giants purchased the contract of Dan Uggla from Triple-A Fresno. Uggla signed a contract with the Giants on July 21st after he was released by the Atlanta Braves on July 18th.

He owned a 162 avg with two home runs and 10 RBIs in 48 games with the Braves this season. Not his best year but since 1996 Uggla lead all Major League second baseman with 233 home runs and ranked first among active second baseman in that category.

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As this nation observes the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, the words of President Trump reverberate. “This country will be WOKE no longer”, an emboldened Trump offered during his speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Since then, Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell posted on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter this morning that “Elon Musk and his DOGE bros have ordered GSA to sell off the site of the historic Freedom Riders Museum in Montgomery.” Her post of little words went on to say, “This is outrageous and we will not let it stand! I am demanding an immediate reversal. Our civil rights history is not for sale!” DOGE trying to sell Freedom Rider Museum

Also, in the news today, the Associated Press is reporting they have a file of names and descriptions of more than 26,000 military images flagged for removal because of connections to women, minorities, culture, or DEI. In more attempts to downplay Blackness, a word that is interchanged with woke, Trump supporters have introduced another bill to take down the bright yellow letters of Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., in exchange for the name Liberty Plaza. D.C. Mayor Morial Bowser is allowing the name change to keep millions of federal dollars flowing there. Black Lives Matter Plaza was named in 2020 after a tense exchange between President Trump and George Floyd protesters in front of the White House. There are more reports about cuts to equity initiatives that impact HBCU students. Programs that recruited top HBCU students into the military and the pipeline for Department of Defense contracts have been canceled.

Meanwhile, Democrats are pushing back against this second-term Trump administration’s anti-DEI and Anti-woke message. In the wake of the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, several Congressional Black Caucus leaders are reintroducing the Voting Rights Act. South Carolina Democratic Congressman James Clyburn and Alabama Congresswoman Terry Sewell are sponsoring H.R. 14, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Six decades ago, Lewis was hit with a billy club by police as he marched for the right to vote for African Americans. The right for Black people to vote became law with the 1965 Voting Rights Act that has since been gutted, leaving the nation to vote without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. Reflecting on the late Congressman Lewis, March 1, 2020, a few months before his death, Lewis said, “We need more than ever in these times many more someones to make good trouble- to make their own dent in the wall of injustice.”

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