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Activated off the injured list before the game
to make his Giants debut, Mitch Haniger contributed a sacrifice
fly to the seventh-inning uprising.
The big inning, combined with Cobb's pitching, sent San
Francisco to its third consecutive win. St. Louis lost for the
third time in four games to continue its 10-game West Coast road
trip.
Cobb (1-1) allowed six hits and one walk while striking out four
in just the fifth complete game of his career. He threw 109
pitches.
His only other shutout came for the Tampa Bay Rays in August of
2012, a 5-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics.
Cardinals left-hander Jordan Montgomery had matched Cobb zero
for zero through six innings before second baseman Tommy Edman
misplayed Mike Yastrzemski's routine grounder leading off the
bottom of the seventh.
Drew VerHagen came on and served up a double to Joey Bart before
walking pinch hitter Joc Pederson intentionally to load the
bases with no outs.
VerHagen struck out Thairo Estrada, but Haniger then lifted a
fly ball deep enough into right field to allow Yastrzemski to
easily score the game's first run.
Davis then crushed his fifth homer of the season.
Montgomery (2-3) took the loss because he was charged with the
first of the four runs, which was unearned. He gave up five hits
and one walk in his six-plus innings, striking out six.
St. Louis had a golden opportunity to put up the game's first
runs, loading the bases in the fifth on singles by Tyler O'Neill
and Brendan Donovan and a walk by Edman. Cobb got Lars Nootbaar
to ground out to third to end the threat.
Davis, Yastrzemski and Austin Slater, also activated from the
injured list before the game, had two hits apiece for the
Giants, whose three-game winning streak is their longest of the
season.
Donovan collected two hits for the Cardinals, who began their
trip by losing two of three in Seattle over the weekend.
--Field Level Media
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