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    Quietly, Patrick Bailey has been hitting with confidence. It's the kind of confidence that can be obscured by the team's middling offensive production to date, but make itself felt when needed most. Bailey was just the guy the Giants needed up in the bottom of the ninth of this scoreless game. Two on, no outs to face Pittsburgh Pirates righty closer David Bednar. Bailey, hitting from the left side, had one simple objective: Wait for a good fastball to hit. The way Bailey has been hitting of...

  • Giants' Patrick Bailey beats Pirates with walk-off homer

    Patrick Bailey crushed a walk-off, three-run homer with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Friday night, producing the only scoring of the San Francisco Giants' 3-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. After Camilo Doval (2-0) had pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the top of the inning, Pirates closer David Bednar (1-2) walked Michael Conforto and served up a single to Matt Chapman to start off the bottom of the inning. A wild pitch advanced the baserunners, but rather than...

  • Friday night stunner! Bailey follows Harrison gem with walk-off HR

    SAN FRANCISCO -- No Major League starter has been as reliant on his fastball as Kyle Harrison, who threw his heater 68% of the time over his first five starts of the year. But the rookie left-hander showed that he can be more than a one-trick pony on Friday night.