Giants’ Cueto upset over Royals White House visit snub
Giants’ Cueto upset over Royals White House visit snub
NEW YORK - The World Series-champion Kansas City Royals visited President Obama in the White House on Thursday.
The guy who threw a two-hitter in Game 2 against the Mets would have gone had he been invited.
The Giants have killed themselves with errors lately.
Angel Pagan did not try to score from third in the 11th inning when Dellin Betances tried to throw an intentional ball to Brandon Crawford and sailed it to the backstop.
Pagan did not even have a secondary lead and did not look alert.
The Yankees then decided to pitch to Crawford, and Betances struck him out to end the inning.
Pagan also made one of two Giants errors, but also might have saved the game with a sliding catch of a Starlin Castro bloop in the eighth.
Brian McCann thought it was a hit and was doubled off first base to end the inning.
Hunter Pence (hamstring surgery) is scheduled to play six innings Saturday and seven Sunday for Triple-A Sacramento, which then has Monday off.
Joe Panik (concussion) was checked by team doctors, who again said he was fine physically.
[...] Panik will not play for a few days as he continues to refine his baseball activities on the side.
Sacramento pitcher Steven Okert went on the Triple-A disabled list with a knee injury that occurred on a fielding play Friday night.
Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
Entering play Saturday, the Giants’ designated hitters were 11-for-23, or a .478 batting average, the highest in the majors.