SAN FRANCISCO – Christian Arroyo’s ‘welcome to the majors’ moment can be boiled down to one particular play Monday night.
Locked in a one-run game in the top of the 4th inning against the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers, Yasmani Grandal hit a ball up the middle that ricochet’d off pitcher Matt Cain’s legs and squirted towards Arroyo at third.
Arroyo adjusted, charged, barehanded the grounder, and fired across his body to get Grandal at first.