user: Debut homer by ‘next Albert Pujols’ helps sink SF Giants on wet day
The Cardinals’ Oscar Taveras hits a solo home run in his second major league at bat in the fifth inning during a game against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. At left is San Francisco Giants catcher Hector Sanchez. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chris Lee)

St. Louis – Whether they liked it or not, the Giants might have witnessed a booming start to a great major-league career Saturday.

Cardinals right fielder Oscar Taveras, making his major-league debut amid expectaitons that he is the second coming of Albert Pujols, homered off Yusmeiro Petit to break a scoreless tie in the fifth inning.

It was a scene out of “The Natural.” It was drizzling when Taveras went deep. By the time he took a curtain call after homering for his first big-league hit, in his second at-bat, it was pouring. The game was halted. Lightning and thunder sent the fans scrambling for cover.

Two rain delays delayed, but did not derail, Taveras’ celebration. His debut homer helped the Cardinals win 2-0 and deny the Giants a chance to end May with 20 wins – although, oddly enough, they get one more crack at it.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the May 22 suspended game at Colorado will count for this month even though it will be settled in September. So the Giants will finish May at 20-9 or 19-10.

Saturday’s game was delayed twice for a total of 98 minutes. The second rainstorm presumably benefited the Giants by knocking Michael Wacha out of the contest after he had thrown six shutout innings.

But the Cardinals bullpen finished what Wacha started, and the Giants were blanked for the fourth time in 2014.

The game resumed with lefty Sam Freeman facing Hector Sanchez in mid at-bat. Sanchez batted left-handed against Wacha to start it and hit a soft liner to first right-handed to end it.

The Cardinals added a run against George Kontos in the seventh on Jhonny Peralta’s two-out RBI double.

Petit also was done after six innings. He allowed two hits, but one was the Taveras homer.

Petit and Wacha provided the Busch Stadium crowd with the pitching duel everyone expected between Madison Bumgarner and Adam Wainwright on Friday night.

The game was scoreless, each team owning one hit, when Taveras went deep on a cutter that got too much plate. As he was taking his first big-league curtain call it started to pour. Petit threw one pitch to Peralta, and the umps stopped it.

When the game resumed after the first delay, Hunter Pence and Pablo Sandoval singled with two outs in the sixth, giving Michael Morse a shot at tying the game with a single or giving the Giants a lead with extra bases, but Wacha struck him out on three pitches.

The Giants have reached the point where they raise eyebrows when they do not get a runner home with two outs.

Brandon Hicks nearly did in the first inning, but his line drive was too low and second baseman Kolten Wong snagged it. Morse had hit a leadoff double and was stranded there.

Manager Bruce Bochy wrote his third consecutive lineup without Buster Posey, who has a sore back, and said he might keep Posey out Sunday, too, affording him two extra days with the off day Monday.

Bochy also rested Brandon Crawford and admitted he “kicked himself” for not giving the shortstop a break Friday night. Angel Pagan’s knee was sore, too, and he sat.

Bochy acknowledged that winning gives him extra leeway to give regulars time off, particularly a player with a minor injury like Posey.

“No question it makes it easier, plus the way Hector is playing,” Bochy said. “It’s not like Hector is doing something he hasn’t done before, catch four or five days in a row. He’s young and he’s doing a good job. This is good for him, too.”
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By Henry Schulman

St. Louis – Whether they liked it or not, the Giants might have witnessed a booming start to a great major-league career Saturday.

Cardinals right fielder Oscar Taveras, making his major-league debut amid expectaitons that he is the second coming of Albert Pujols, homered o


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