The rookie had only 3 plate-appearances with 3 strikeouts in 4 games over these first two weeks. By the end of the San Francisco Giants 7-1 win, he'd have 3 hits, 1 RBI, 2 SB, and 2 more runs scored with the bottom of the lineup going 6 for 6 with 3 RBIs and 5 runs scored between them.
The centerfield wall, for example, did its part to shake the offense awake when it shook Ahmed's sharp flyball from outfielder Jacob Young's glove. The two-out triple knotted the game at 1 in the 2nd. Fitzgerald, getting the start in center for Jung Hoo Lee, flipped a broken bat single into left for their second run.
An Ahmed single kicked off their next rally in the 5th. Fitzgerald followed with a double, setting up a 1-out, sacrifice fly courtesy of Wilmer Flores, and a Michael Conforto single to push the score to 5-1.
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