Giants takeaways: What you might have missed in 7-6 win over Padres

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Mike Yastrzemski lost his first career splash hit on a technicality early in Wednesday night's game when his blast to right hit a pillar on the way to McCovey Cove.

He left no doubt with his second homer.

Yastrzemski hit a walk-off into the water in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the Giants a 7-6 win over the Padres in a game that looked lost just 20 minutes earlier.

The Giants trailed for most of the night and were down three runs heading into the eighth. That's when Donovan Solano, who had a seriously underrated 2019, hit a three-run blast to left to tie the game. Yastrzemski won it a few minutes later.

Here are three things you need to know from a wild night at Oracle Park.

Donnie Barrels 

That's what they call Solano around the Giants' clubhouse, because the veteran infielder barrels everything up.

Solano somehow got the barrel on a changeup up and in from Craig Stammen, yanking a three-run shot into the empty bleachers in left to tie the game with two outs in the eighth. The timing couldn't have been better, as All-Star closer Kirby Yates loomed.

Solano has driven in seven runs in the first six games of the year. Only Cincinnati's Nicholas Castellanos (8) and Atlanta's Dansby Swanson (8) have more in the National League.

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Another short start

Johnny Cueto wasn't thrilled that he lasted just four innings last Thursday in Los Angeles. This time, the Giants right-hander was pulled for performance reasons as much as the pitch count.

Cueto was pulled with two down in the fourth after giving up an RBI single to No. 9 hitter Edward Olivares that gave the Padres the lead. Olivares scored two batters later when Trent Grisham took Shaun Anderson, who had been dominant against the Dodgers, deep.

Cueto ended up being charged with four earned runs in 3 2/3. He walked three, including a killer two-out walk that came just ahead of Manny Machado's homer to dead center in the third.

Cueto's fastball is right about where it was when he returned from Tommy John surgery last year, averaging 91.1 mph, but he got just seven swinging strikes on 87 pitches.

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Tale of two Andersons 

Shaun Anderson struck out five of the first eight batters he faced this season, but he gave up a long three-run Grisham homer that handed the Padres a healthy lead. Tyler Anderson was next, and he had a strong Oracle Park debut with a strange finish.

Anderson went 3 2/3 shutout innings in his second appearance -- and first in relief -- for Giants manager Gabe Kapler. With one out in the eighth, Anderson walked Olivares and then picked him off. He then walked Fernando Tatis Jr. and picked him off, too.

The left-hander's move had both Padres shaking their heads, perhaps because from some angles, it looked like a balk.

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