Road weary and a bit homesick Good Sellers For Fake NFL Jerseys , the San Francisco Giants picked up a victory Sunday that could be the momentum needed to get a long stretch in the Bay Area off to a good start.

Nick Hundley and Brandon Belt each hit two-run home runs and Chris Stratton pitched six solid innings to help the San Francisco Giants avoid a three-game sweep at Los Angeles with a 4-1 victory over the Dodgers on Sunday.

It marked the end of the Giants’ fourth three-city road trip over the first 2 1/2 months of the season, and the last hurdle the club needed to clear before a stretch where they play 20 of the next 26 games at AT&T Park. After that, the Giants hit the All-Star break then play three interleague games at Oakland.

”We’re through the hardest part of the schedule, I think,” Belt said about the Giants already playing 42 of their 81 road games, exactly one month before the All-Star Game. ”It’s not easy going to the East Coast a lot and having 10-game road trips. We have a lot of games coming up at home and everybody is excited about that.”

Hundley got the Giants going early Sunday with a homer in the first inning, halfway up the pavilion seats in left field for his eighth of the season. Belt followed two innings later with his 12th home run and first since returning from an appendectomy on June 1.

The Dodgers saw their modest five-game win streak come to an end, but they are still 11-3 in June. They went 6-2 on their just-completed homestand and now head to Chicago for a National League Championship Series rematch with the Cubs.

The Giants went 4-6 on their 10-day road trip to Washington, Miami and Los Angeles, and now return home for a 10-game homestand against the Marlins, Padres and Rockies. They stay in the division for a six-game road trip then return for another 10-game homestand.

Sunday’s victory gave the Giants a 16-26 record away from home. They are 19-11 in San Francisco.

”We can’t have this road record, that’s not going to work Tell Authentic And Replica NFL Jerseys , so we have to get better there,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. ”At home, we have to keep up what we have been doing there and hopefully the guys catch their breath and like the home cooking.”

Dodgers rookie pitcher Caleb Ferguson (0-1) gave up four runs on just two hits, the home runs from Hundley and Belt. He struck out six in his third career start, with an unearned run that happened when Gorkys Hernandez reached base on an error by shortstop Enrique Hernandez in front of Belt’s homer.

”Of the three (starts), this was his best outing,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. ”I thought he did a great job of pounding the strike zone, getting some empty swings.”

Former Dodgers left-hander Tony Watson opened the ninth inning for the Giants with a strikeout of Max Muncy before closer Hunter Strickland recorded the final two outs for his 14th save in 17 chances.

STRATTON GETS HIS REVENGE

Stratton (8-4) entered 0-3 with a 7.88 ERA against the Dodgers, and was roughed up in an April 28 start when he gave up six earned runs over a short 1 1/3 innings, easily his shortest start of the year.

Sunday’s outing was in complete contrast to his previous efforts against the Dodgers.

”It was big,” Stratton said of his outing Sunday. ”Definitely the last time was not a pretty one. I have to credit Hundley back there behind the plate. I don’t think I had my best stuff today, especially with fastball command.”

Stratton gave up a first-inning run when Hundley tried to cut down Justin Turner at second base and threw the ball into center field. Max Muncy came home from third base on the error. Otherwise the right-hander was stingy against a Dodgers lineup that entered with 34 home runs in June.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Giants: C Buster Posey NFL Blog , who saw action in all 16 innings of Thursday’s game at Miami, was not in the starting lineup Sunday with what manager Bruce Bochy labeled ”general soreness.” SS Brandon Crawford will go on paternity leave Monday for the birth of his fourth child and said that he expects to miss three games.

Dodgers: RHP Tom Koehler had a setback in his recovery from a right shoulder strain and will now have to restart his rehab program, according to manager Dave Roberts. His targeted return has been pushed back to August. LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu had some tightness in his left groin strain and his recent bullpen outing was cut short to 20 pitches. Roberts would not call Ryu’s situation a setback, but would not confirm a July return either.

UP NEXT

The Giants will send left-hander Andrew Suarez (2-4, 4.92 ERA) to the mound Monday as the club returns home from its 10-day road trip to face the Miami Marlins. In his second start since coming off the disabled list, RHP Kenta Maeda (4-4, 3.61) could be available for as many as 90 pitches Monday in the opener of a three-game series at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs.
The Chicago White Sox had a little fun with slumping slugger Jose Abreu on Friday night.

Abreu homered for the first time in July, helping the White Sox hold off the Kansas City Royals for a 9-6 victory.

Leury Garcia had three hits and three RBIs as the White Sox earned their second straight win after a six-game slide. They finished with 14 hits against the AL Central-worst Royals.

Abreu broke out of a 2-for-23 slide with a single to center in the fourth inning. Manager Rick Renteria then saw an opportunity to take the edge off in the dugout, joking with his All-Star first baseman about a possible memento.

”We were asking him if he wanted us to get the ball for him. He kind of got a little chuckle off of that,” Renteria said.

Abreu didn’t mine the friendly jab.

”It was a good moment,” Abreu said through a translator. ”It was my first hit in a few games and I was happy. Ricky is always trying to make it fun to try to relax the atmosphere and the tension between us.”

Garcia doubled in two runs in the first, singled in the third and connected for a solo drive in the sixth. Omar Narvaez added a two-run homer in the eighth off Kevin McCarthy and Joakim Soria pitched the ninth for his 14th save in 17 chances.

Chicago right-hander James Shields (4-10) struck out seven in 6 2/3 innings. He was charged with four runs 2018 Good Sellers For Fake NFL Jerseys , two earned, and five hits.

”For the most part I was pounding the strike zone tonight,” he said. ”I had my changeup working tonight. I haven’t had that in a couple of games so I’m just trying to pound the strike zone as much as I possibly can and go deep as I possibly can in the game.”

Whit Merrifield had two hits and scored two runs for Kansas City, which has dropped 12 of 13. Brad Keller (2-4) was tagged for five runs and seven hits in 2 2/3 innings.

Keller attributed his struggles to his mechanics.

”Just like my typical cues to get through the ball, I wasn’t hitting right,” he said. ”So I just was kind of leaning off the left a little bit, pulling balls and balls were coming over the middle of the plate.”

Jorge Bonifacio chased Shields with a two-out, two-run double in the seventh. Lucas Duda scored on third baseman Yolmer Sanchez’s error in the eighth and Merrifield added an RBI single, pulling Kansas City within one.

But Charlie Tilson made a nice running catch on Bonifacio’s deep fly ball to center, ending the inning. Soria then worked a perfect ninth.

”Our offense has picked up here in the last week. I’m feeling better about the at-bats I’m seeing and the production we’re getting out there,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.

The White Sox opened a 5-2 lead with two in the third. Narvaez and Ryan LaMarre each had an RBI single.

Abreu and Garcia went deep in the sixth. Abreu hit a solo shot off Heath Fillmyer for his 13th of the season. It was his first homer since June 27.

Garcia’s fourth homer came against Tim Hill.

TRADE TALK

The White Sox are expected to be active before the trade deadline once again. Abreu, outfielder Avisail Garcia and Shields could attract some attention from contenders.

”I’ll say the same thing I said last year – as long as they’re here 5 Ways To Tell Authentic And Replica NFL Jerseys (Real VS Fake) , they’re ours, and we have to keep doing what we do,” Renteria said.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals: OF Rosell Herrera could return from paternity leave for the series finale on Sunday, Yost said.

White Sox: Avisail Garcia (left hamstring tightness) may not require a rehab stint before his return after the All-Star break. ”This was sincerely very mild,” Renteria said. ”It was more precautionary and it’s just a matter of that thing calming down a little bit.”

UP NEXT

Royals: LHP Danny Duffy (4-8, 4.89 ERA) will bid for the fourth quality start in his last five tries Saturday.

White Sox: RHP Reynaldo Lopez (4-6, 3.77 ERA) will take a career 2-0 record and 3.28 ERA versus Royals into his start.
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