The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Tribune Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

ANTOAN Richadson’s San Francisco Giants got the better of Jazz Chisholm Jr and the Miami Marlins in a tightly contested opening week series where each of the three games was decided by a single run.

The Giants concluded the series with yesterday’s 3-2 win at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California.

Chisholm drove in the game’s first run on a sacrifice fly and finished 1-3.

Defensively, he went viral with a spectacular diving catch to deny Giants outfielder Austin Slater a leadoff hit in the first inning. The exit velocity on Slater’s line drive was 105 mph but Chisholm reached full extension midair to grab the out.

In game one of the series, Chisholm homered and reached base three times in the Marlins’ 6-5 loss Friday night. He finished 2-3.

Chisholm was not in the starting lineup for the Marlins’ 2-1 win Saturday night and took to social media to express his frustration. Marlins manager Don Mattingly fielded a lineup which featured eight rand hand hitters to face Giants left hander Carlos Rodon.

“I got it out of my system. Small things. Something you learn from every time. That’ll be it for me,” Chisholm told the Miami Herald of his negative reaction to the lineup change, “Donnie knows that I’m a guy that wants to be out there every day and wants to win. He knows I’m the guy that wants to help the team win and I want to be the one out there. If anything, everybody knows that I’m a lover of baseball, and that’s all I love to do is play baseball. If I’m not out there trying to help my team win, I’m mad anyway — even if it is my off day.”

Richardson, now the Giants’ first base coach, was the sixth Bahamian player to be called up to the major leagues when he made his breakthrough in 2011 with the Atlanta Braves. Chisholm, became number seven on the list when he made his debut in 2020. That list now stands at eight after Lucius Fox made his debut Sunday afternoon.

Last April when the Marlins hosted the Giants for a three game series, it marked the first time a Bahamian player and a Bahamian coach shared the same field in a Major League Baseball game.

“I think it’s exciting for baseball in the Bahamas. We have been tapping into this industry a little bit and I think there are bigger and better things to come,” Richardson said, “I think as we continue to invest more, I’m sure Jazz will be giving some input and I will be giving input on how to create this route to help guys get to this point quicker and faster. As we learn we will bring those lessons back to The Bahamas. We both now have experiences as players and with me, also being able to use my experience as a coach and having experience in the front office.”