Bryce Eldridge makes yet another team pay for disrespecting him in SF Giants walk-off

The SF Giants did the unthinkable on Monday night: they won a close baseball game. While they had the worst record of any big league team entering the game in one-run contests, they somehow found a way to not mess things up too badly and emerged victorious 4-3 over the St. Louis Cardinals thanks to a walk-off single from Shay Whitcomb in the eleventh inning.

Yet, it was Bryce Eldridge who yet again came up big for the Giants in extra innings. Just last week he came up with a clutch hit against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the tenth inning. He laced a double down the line after the Pirates intentionally walked Rafael Devers to give the team the lead and then put the rest of MLB on notice after the game by saying that they had to deal with two of them, meaning he and Devers.

Well, apparently the Cardinals didn’t get the memo because they chose to intentionally walk Devers in the tenth on Monday night and the broadcast noted that Devers looked right at Eldridge and gave him a motivational nod as if to say, ‘You got this.’

Indeed Eldridge did have it as he smoked a ball up the middle to score the automatic runner from second and tie the game. That Devers-Eldridge tandem is truly a joy to watch and when they are both hot opponents are just going to have to flip a coin on which one they’d rather face.

Bryce Eldridge is impressing in more ways than one for SF Giants

Not only did Eldridge come up big at the plate, he also made some huge defensive plays. He dove to catch a heat-seeking line drive at first base to end an inning and then in the top of the eleventh inning he scooped a poor throw from shortstop Christian Koss to end the inning and eleven the automatic runner from scoring.

This season has been ugly, but we are really seeing Eldridge come into his own as both a defender and a threat at the plate. The fact that he’s been able to grow like this as a rookie is only going to have positive effects going forward. Keep in mind he is just 21 years old so if he already looks this good at this age, the sky really could be the limit.

Maybe eventually teams will wise up and just start intentionally walking both Devers and Eldridge, but for now it seems like Eldridge doesn’t mind being disrespected because it gives him the opportunity to make opponents pay, something he’s done twice now as of late.

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