San Francisco Giants & The Week That Was: Week Four Back on Track

Giant Killer of the Week: Michael Conforto

In their quick three-game series with the Mets, the Giants learned what a lot of teams are going to learn: Michael Conforto is one heck of a young ballplayer, and he’s just getting started.

In the series opener on Friday, Conforto collected two hits in the third inning, both of which scored a run as part of the Mets’ franchise-record 12-run inning. On Saturday, Conforto was back at it again with three hits, falling just a triple shy of the cycle in his three at-bats. He singled in the first inning and later scored. He doubled (his league-leading 11th double of the year) in the second inning to drive in a pair of runs. In the fifth inning, he swatted a solo home run, his fourth of the year, to extend the Mets’ lead to 5-3. He was double-switched out later in the game, taking away an opportunity to hit for the cycle.

Conforto was kept quiet on Sunday, as he went hitless in five at-bats, with a hat trick worth of strikeouts. His damage was already done in the first two games of the series. This is only the 23-year-old’s third season in professional baseball after being drafted 10th overall in 2014, and that’s a bit scary. There’s a lot of room for him to grow into the superstar that a lot of people think he will be.

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Yoenis Cespedes also deserves a quick mention for what he did in the third inning on Friday alone. In the inning, he picked up a pair of hits, a two-run single and a grand slam, driving in half of the Mets’ 12 runs that inning. He went 1-10 in the rest of the series. Brett Wallace also gets a vote, because for whatever reason, he really likes hitting against the Giants. In the Giants’ series with the Padres, Wallace went 3-4 with a double and two RBI. Against the rest of the league this year, Wallace is 1-20 with no extra-base hits and one RBI.