Giants snap six-game skid with win over Padres as Trevor McDonald delivers in spot start
Trevor McDonald prepares to throw a pitch during the Giants' May 4 game. SAN FRANCISCO — Trevor McDonald wasn’t the headliner of the Giants’ roster shakeup Monday, but credit the third newcomer of the day with making the moves look good. Neither top prospect Bryce Eldridge nor hot-hitting rookie Jesus Rodriguez gave the Giants’ offense the jumpstart it needed.
But McDonald was brilliant beyond expectations. The 24-year-old right-hander, called up to make a spot start, held the Padres to one run on two hits over seven innings in a 3-2 win to open a six-game home stand. The club was in desperate need of a course correction after going winless on its six-game road trip.
Trevor McDonald prepares to throw a pitch during the Giants’ May 4 game. Getty Images Eldridge, the Giants’ No. 1 prospect, went hitless in two at-bats with a walk in his return to the majors after a brief 10-game stint last September.
Rodriguez, who sported a . 330 average at Triple-A, put his funky stance on display in the bigs for the first time but came up empty in three at-bats. Instead, it was an increasingly common character who got the Giants on the board: Casey Schmitt, who launched a solo home run off Padres starter Randy Vasquez in the first inning.
Casey Schmitt hits a home run during the Giants’ May 4 game. Getty Images The solo shot was the Giants’ first home run since they left home last Sunday, ending a six-game drought. It was their 20th as a team, still the fewest in the majors, and Schmitt’s fifth, leaving the Mets as the only team without a player to hit at least five.