Crawford doubled twice, tripled and drove in three runs, leading the San Francisco Giants over the San Diego Padres 5-3 on Saturday.The breakout game came less than a week after Crawford’s wife gave birth to the couple’s fourth child, son Bryson.”You just know him, you know it’s a matter of time,” manager Bruce Bochy said. ”I’m sure his timing was a little bit off. Today he found it. We needed
it.”Crawford went into the game mired in an 0-for-18 funk. He walked in the second inning, hit a triple off Matt Strahm in the fourth and doubled in a pair
of runs off Adam Cimber (3-4) in the sixth. Crawford also doubled and scored in
the eighth.”Even though I may not have looked that good at times, I did feel like I was seeing the ball well,” Crawford said. ”My timing might have just been a little
bit off. It was just a matter of squaring the ball up, finding a hole, hitting
it to a spot they couldn’t catch it.”San Francisco’s Gold Glove-winning shortstop also helped turn three of the Giants’ four double plays. He made a throwing error in the ninth that allowed a
run to score.Crawford was bothered as much by the error as he was excited about breaking out of his batting slump.”It’s frustrating Deion Sanders Jersey Limited , I’m not going to lie,” Crawford said. ”Obviously I like going 3-for-3 any day, but I want to be able to make those
plays in the ninth inning also.”Brandon Belt singled twice and Gorkys Hernandez added an RBI double as the Giants won their fifth in seven games.Reyes Moronta (3-1) retired three batters.Hunter Renfroe homered for San Diego. The Padres have dropped six of seven.San Diego manager Andy Green was forced to scramble after starting pitcher Jordan Lyles was scratched from the lineup with right forearm tightness minutes
before he was scheduled to take the mound in the bottom of the first.”Just kind of my read on his body and the way he was talking and the way he was feeling was that it wasn’t worth putting him on the mound today,” Green
said. ”We’re very hopeful that it’s just one of those things where by keeping
him off the mound today we preserved the rest of his season.”Strahm, who started last Sunday in Atlanta, replaced Lyles and pitched into the fourth inning. Strahm gave up two hits and left after yielding Crawford’s
RBI triple.Cimber, the fourth San Diego pitcher, allowed both runs in the sixth.Hernandez doubled in Nick Hundley in the seventh to make it 4-1.Giants starter Andrew Suarez gave up one run in 5 2/3 innings.Things got a little chippy in the seventh when Andrew McCutchen was hit by a pitch from San Diego reliever Phil Maton. McCutchen took exception after the
previous pitch was high and inside, and he glared at Maton for several moments.
Padres A.J. Ellis stepped in front of McCutchen and spoke to the hitter briefly
before McCutchen walked to first base.Earlier in the week, the Giants and Miami Marlins exchanged allegations of beanballs during their three-game series at AT&T Park.ROSTER SHUFFLEThe Giants optioned left fielder Mac Williamson to Triple-A Sacramento. Williamson was one of San Francisco’s hottest hitters before suffering a
concussion in late April but has struggled at the plate since returning. Austin
Slater was recalled and will join a crowded depth chart in left. Alen Hanson
started Saturday, with Hunter Pence and Austin Jackson also in the mix.TRAINER’S ROOMGiants: RHP Johnny Cueto (elbow inflammation) was scheduled make his first rehab start with Sacramento on Saturday night. … RHP Jeff Samardzija (shoulder
tightness) will join Cueto in Sacramento and will throw around 90 pitches in a
rehab start Tuesday.UP NEXTGiants RHP Dereck Rodriguez (2-1, 4.56 ERA) makes his third home start since joining the rotation. Rodriguez is unbeaten in his two previous starts at
AT&T Park while allowing four runs in 11 innings. Eric Lauer (3-4 Brandon Parker Jersey Raiders , 5.47) pitches for the Padres. The left-hander has yielded three earned runs or fewer in his previous four
starts.Breaking his left ankle and having his career put in jeopardy has given New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. a new perspective on life and
football.
Speaking to reporters here for the first time since getting hurt in a game in early October, Beckham on Saturday was thankful to be back on the field and
seemingly more relaxed and more mature.The 25-year-old said he was not worrying about upcoming contract talks, even though he admits he is taking a calculated risk being in training camp coming
off an injury and in the final year of his rookie contract."I literally watched my world turn upside down," said Beckham, whose ankle snapped in a game against the Los Angeles Chargers on Oct. 8. "I watched
relationships close to me devour and things go wrong, and things go sideways. It
was a lot of pain that I went through the last 10 months."So, just kind of taking it day by day and trying my best to just make my mindset every day that I wake up I am going to be happy," the three-time Pro
Bowler said. "I am going to do this right. I am going to do the very best that I
can in whatever it is, whatever it is I am doing. I changed my mindset and it
has helped me a lot in everything."The 10-month rehabilitation was not only tough, Beckham also had to deal with reports that the Giants were considering trading him and the never-ending social
media tweets and video about his life off the field.Beckham called the trade talk rumor and noise that he has now learned to ignore."I remember I used to say all the time: 'Don't take it personal' and stuff, but I still took things personal and I really have gotten that out of my heart
to not take anything personal," he said. "And with doing that Ronnie Harrison Jersey Jaguars , it's left things that I used to worry about out of the equation. So, once you can really put that in your heart, don't
take it personal and you can feel that, it's a completely different story."Beckham's agent Zeke Sandhu was at the Giants' workout Thursday and was seen speaking to assistant general manager Kevin Abrams for almost two hours on the
patio overlooking the field.Beckham had said he wants to be the highest paid receiver in the game and that has not changed. However, he said he is leaving the contract talks in the
hands of his agent and when something happens, it happens. He added if a deal
isn't completed before the start of the season, he would cross that bridge at
that time."I'm confident it'll all work itself out," Beckham said, who is scheduled to make $8.5 million this season. "Life always does."Antonio Brown of the Pittsburgh Steelers is considered the highest paid receiver, earning an average $17 million on a four-year deal.For now, being back on the field is fun. He is enjoying working with coach Pat Shurmur and said the new offense gives him the opportunity to line up in a
lot of different spots."I love football," Beckham said. "Football was always an (release) for me Omar Vizquel Jersey , it was always how I could get everything out, and just being able to be back out on the field like I said, I remember waking up 4
(o'clock) in the morning and crawling upstairs to my bed and laughing to myself,
like this is going to be a hell of a ride for you to get back to where you're
at."And now I'm here, and there's still a lot more for me to do. It's truly, I'm just thankful; that God is able to put me back out there," he said.Since being drafted in the first round in 2014, Beckham has played 47 games and has 313 catches for 4,424 yards and 38 touchdowns.The 25-year-old Beckham says his rehabilitation was long and painful. He says there were nights he had to crawl up three flights of stairs to get to his
bedroom. The three-time Pro Bowler says he has made significant strides in the
past two months is still not 100 percent..
