Giants’ Pablo Sandoval triples but strains hamstring sliding into home

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Pablo Sandoval epitomized the ups and downs of the Giants’ season on a single fifth-inning sequence.

Sandoval legged out a two-run, stand-up triple (his first since 2015) and scored on a medium-deep flyball. But he strained his right hamstring on his slide, held his leg walking back to the dugout and will have an MRI on Monday.

After the game, Sandoval wasn’t limping in the clubhouse. Asked if expects to miss time, he said, “I hope not. I’ll be missing time when (Brandon) Belt comes back.”

The Giants already were thin at first base with Belt on the disabled list with a hyperextended right knee. Austin Slater…