SAN FRANCISCO–Major League debuts are filled with opportunities to create memories, celebrate a lifelong journey and for the first time in a professional baseball player’s career, experience something different.
Giants rookie Tyler Beede had already been removed from the game when that something different happened, but he soaked up the excitement when Andrew McCutchen delivered a walkoff single to score Kelby Tomlinson in the bottom of the ninth in a 5-4 win.
Like the Giants pitchers who started the team’s previous two games, Beede didn’t receive a run of support while he was on the mound. And like nearly every Giants pitcher from the last decade, he witnessed first-hand the type of damage Diamondbacks’ first baseman Paul Goldschmidt can create.