Giants' Tyler Rogers Strikes Out Padres Player on Slider That Hit His Face

In the eighth inning of the Giants' home opener at Oracle Park, Rogers delivered an 0–2 slider to San Diego Padres rookie third baseman Graham Pauley. Pauley swung and missed—badly.

The pitch, which was released at an awkward angle due to Rogers's submarine delivery, crept higher and tighter to Pauley in the batter's box. He swung with all his might, and the pitch hit his shoulder and ricocheted off his face.Replays indicated that Pauley made contact with his bat and it should've been ruled a foul tip. But foul tips are not reviewable, so Pauley went down on strikes in painful fashion.

Back in April 2021, former Giants teammate Kevin Gausman predicted this would happen at some point in Rogers's career. "You're going to hit a lefty in the face one day, and the guy's probably going to swing at it," Gausman said to Rogers, viaRogers recorded a perfect 1-2-3 eighth inning, and the Giants beat the Padres 3–2 on infielder Thairo Estrada's walk-off double in the ninth.Coby White is set to return and says he dodged a bullet in a nasty fall vs. the Indiana Pacers

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