OAKLAND -- Rediscovering the long ball Friday night, the Giants received home runs from Ryder Jones and Pablo Sandoval to support another resolute pitching performance by Dereck Rodriguez in a 5-1 Interleague victory over the Oakland A's.
The Giants hadn't homered twice in a game since June 19, 25 games ago. They came out of the All-Star break with six homers since July 1, the fewest in the Major Leagues during that span.
That fact became obsolete before a lively Oakland Coliseum crowd that watched Jones, freshly arrived from Triple-A Sacramento, hammer an Edwin Jackson pitch off the facade of the second deck in right field to break a 1-1 tie in the fifth inning.