San Francisco Giants 2 - Boston Red Sox 1

From the south bay back up to San Francisco - covered the San Francisco Giants vs the Boston Red Sox on a breezy Wednesday evening.

A game which lacked a lot of action apart from a home run by each team

Brandon Belt's being a splash hit. Always fun, though not something I can actually capture.

Then Mac Williamson hit a home run (his first MLB home run!) in the eighth which made for some fun photos as the ball went over the wall and everyone watched... including the Chevron cars ;)

Though perhaps he was still too excited from his first MLB home run, that it got to his head, causing him to drop this ball, to put Boston with a runner on 2nd and no outs. Whoops!

Boston tried to send in pinch-hitter "Big Papi" David Ortiz, in what would be his last at bat at AT&T Park.

And he ended up earning a walk against Javier Lopez.

Bochy let Lopez strike out Travis Shaw before going to the third pitcher of the inning, Hunter Strikland to finish it off.

San Francisco Giants defeated the Boston Red Sox 2-1

Giants defeat the Diamondbacks 4-3

Headed over to AT&T Park today for the second game of the series, Arizona Diamondbacks at San Francisco Giants.

It seemed like forever since I had been at the ballpark when in reality it's been just over two weeks. I guess the three A's games I covered last week and the mini-vacation at home for my dad's birthday and Mother's day threw me off.

This was my first time shooting baseball with my 7D and I LOVE IT!!! Though there's something to be said about full frame sensors, but the crop factor on the 7D makes my 300mm just about the perfect focal length for baseball. I had been using an old 1.4x extender John Todd lent to me years ago, but since he's asked for it back, this is the perfect solution and even better because the 1.4x brought aperture to f/4 and never seemed as crisp as the 300mm alone.

So now a night game pushing with 300mm f/2.8 pushing ISO3200 on my 7D, I can shoot from third base next to Giants dugout and capture pretty tight action at all the bases.

And even get shots in the outfield of fans heckling Chris Young as he runs for the long ball. Love it!

D-backs led 3-0 at the top of the 4th but Giants brought it to 2-3 in the bottom of the 4th. Buster Posey batted in on Miguel Tejada's grounder. Then with Andres Torres at bat, a wild pitch and Aaron Rowand was able to make it home. D-backs pitcher Armando Galarraga tried to tag him out at the plate... but didn't have the ball... whups.

With a homerun by Aubrey Huff and Tejada's run on Torre's double, Giants took the lead 4-3 in the 6th inning and held it.

And Brian Wilson in for the save. I like that he wears his shirt extra unbuttoned, such a rebel. haha.