{"id":4589,"date":"2026-04-29T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:38:33","slug":"giants-hold-off-surprising-comeback-offense-overpowers-friend-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"Giants Hold Off Surprising Comeback, Offense Overpowers Friend Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"167\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1SFG.png?resize=167%2C261&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1SFG.png?w=167&amp;ssl=1 167w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1SFG.png?resize=82%2C128&amp;ssl=1 82w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1SFG.png?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For the 2nd straight start, the 1962 San Francisco Giants destroyed Pittsburgh Pirates ace Bob Friend. After Friend lasted 2 2\/3 innings in his last start, he barely did better, being chased after 3 1\/3 innings, allowing 10 runs on 10 hits. The Giants batted around in two different innings. Friend allowed 5 straight hits, capped by Cedepa&#8217;s 2-run shot in the 3rd. In the 4th, Friend yielded 3 straight hits before his exit. Jim Umbricht made a mistake pitch to Cepeda for a 3-run homer a few batters later. Billy O&#8217;Dell carried an 11-1 lead into the 7th before Dick Stuart&#8217;s tournament-leading 13th homer ended his night. Reliever Mike McCormick gave up a solo shot in the 8th to Don Hoak, and back-to-back homers in the 9th to Rocky Nelson and Roberto Clemente, as the Pirates scored 8 runs in the final 3 innings to cut the lead to 11-9 before Stu Miller shut them down, picking up his 4th save. Cepeda now has 5 home runs in the past 5 games against the Pirates. Despite two blowouts that turned into close games, San Francisco heads to Pittsburgh with a 2-0 series lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/10-07-2025_PIT_SFG.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'60 Pirates @ '62 Giants - 10\/7\/25\">&#8217;60 Pirates @ &#8217;62 Giants &#8211; 10\/7\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 2nd straight start, the 1962 San Francisco Giants destroyed Pittsburgh Pirates ace Bob Friend. After Friend lasted 2 2\/3 innings in his last start, he barely did better, being chased after 3 1\/3 innings, allowing 10 runs on 10 hits. The Giants batted around in two different innings. Friend allowed 5 straight hits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-60s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}