Major League Baseball
San Francisco 5, San Diego 4
When: 4:05 PM ET, Saturday, July 22, 2017
Where: AT&T Park, San Francisco, California
Temperature: 71°
Umpires: Home - Jeff Nelson, 1B - Cory Blaser, 2B - Doug Eddings, 3B - Lazaro Diaz
Attendance: 40936

SAN FRANCISCO -- In an afternoon affair that followed an extra-inning night game, Saturday's matchup between the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres figured to be a battle of backup catchers.

It was. And 12 innings later, the Giants' Nick Hundley won it.

Hundley drove in Kelby Tomlinson with a single to the base of the fence in left field with two outs in the 12th inning, giving the Giants a 5-4 victory over the Padres.

Eduardo Nunez drove in two runs with three hits and the San Francisco bullpen pitched six innings of one-hit ball, helping San Francisco beat San Diego for just the second time in their last nine meetings at AT&T Park.

"What a great comeback from a very rough night," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said of the aftermath of Friday's late-night, 12-9 loss in 11 innings. "I'll tell you this: Two tired teams out there."

Wil Myers homered for the second straight day for the Padres, who had posted hard-fought wins in the first two games of the four-day series.

"It's one of those situations where you're trying to stay away from a certain couple of guys," San Diego manager Andy Green said of his inability to use his two top relievers, All-Star Brad Hand and closer Brandon Maurer, both of whom had pitched Thursday and Friday. "It was tough to do. You've seen a lot of innings out of the bullpen over the last five days, about as many as I've ever seen."

Brandon Belt opened the 12th with a single off the sixth Padres pitcher, right-hander Kevin Quackenbush (0-2).

After a fielder's choice on a bunt attempt, Tomlinson reached second base on a wild pitch and scored one out later on Hundley's blast over the head of Padres left fielder Jabari Blash.

Giants star Buster Posey, the club's regular catcher, was one of the first to congratulate his tag-team partner after his fifth career walk-off hit.

"He said, 'It looked like you were the happiest guy on the field,'" Hundley said of Posey, who caught all 11 innings Friday night. "I told him it's not quite like his walk-off in the 18th (actually, 17th) inning (earlier this season against Cincinnati). I told him, 'My joy level was about six innings less than yours was.'"

Hundley said he had no doubt his game-winner -- the sixth by a Giant this season and second on the current homestand -- was going over Blash's head.

"If he had caught it," Hundley noted, "I would have kept running right into the cove."

Left-hander Josh Osich (3-1), San Francisco's fifth pitcher, got the win after striking out three in 1 2/3 innings of shutout relief.

Right-handers Albert Suarez, Sam Dyson and Hunter Strickland bridged the gap from Giants starter Matt Moore to Osich.

Suarez had been promoted from Triple-A Sacramento earlier in the day. He retired all six Padres he faced in the seventh and eighth innings in a 4-4 tie.

"He gave us what we needed, a real shot in the arm," Bochy said of Suarez, who pitched in 22 games, 12 as a starter, last season. "We've missed him."

Hundley finished with two hits for the Giants, who had lost 16 of their previous 21 games against the Padres since the 2016 All-Star break.

Myers' homer was his 19th of the season for the Padres, who were outhit 12-8.

The Padres used a four-run fourth inning to take a 4-1 lead against Moore.

Myers' solo shot ignited the inning, and Padres starter Luis Perdomo capped it with his third triple of the season, a two-run liner to right-center field.

"He's a crazy athlete. He can fly," Padres manager Andy Green said of his pitcher. "He does so many things."

The Giants came right back with three unearned runs against Perdomo in the bottom of the inning to get even. A one-out error by shortstop Allen Cordoba opened the floodgates.

Nunez's third hit, a two-out, two-run single, produced the 4-4 tie.

Like his counterpart in the top of the inning, Moore aided his own cause with a single during the Giants' rally. He scored the tying run on Nunez's hit.

Neither starter got a decision after each worked six innings.

Perdomo allowed four runs (just one earned) and eight hits in his six innings. He walked two and struck out four.

Facing the Padres for the first time in his career, Moore gave up four runs and seven hits in his six innings. He struck out seven and did not walk a batter.

NOTES: The Giants formally announced the signing of 3B Pablo Sandoval to a minor-league contract before the game. He was scheduled to play at Class A San Jose on Saturday and Sunday before moving to Triple-A Sacramento on Tuesday. ... Asked before the game why the Giants would show interest in a guy who hit just .237 since leaving the organization after the 2014 season, manager Bruce Bochy noted, "You look at it as a free look at a player who has done good things." ... Padres RHP Luis Perdomo's triple was his third of the season, the most ever in a season by a San Diego pitcher. The last major league pitcher with three triples in the same season was LHP Dontrelle Willis in 2007. ... Both teams made roster moves before the game. The Padres placed SS Erick Aybar (bruised left foot) on the 10-day disabled list and reinstated LHP Buddy Baumann (sore left shoulder) from the 60-day DL. The Giants recalled INF/OF Orlando Calixte and RHP Albert Suarez from Triple-A Sacramento, making room on the active roster by demoting LHP Steven Okert and 3B Jae-Gyun Hwang.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
San Diego   San Francisco
Luis Perdomo Player Matt Moore
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.0 IP 6.0
4 Strikeouts 7
8 Hits 7
1.50 ERA 6.00
Hitting
San Diego   San Francisco
Matt Szczur Player Eduardo Nunez
2 Hits 3
0 RBI 2
0 HR 0
3 TB 4
.500 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
San Diego 8 1 14 .186 13 13 4 1 0 2
San Francisco 12 0 14 .255 22 11 5 4 0 0
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