Watch: Bryant, Gillaspie trade clutch hits late in Game 3
Kris Bryant crushed a lot of Bay Area hearts just as effortlessly as he crushed this baseball.
The Chicago Cubs infielder sent a two-run homer just barely over the wall in left field Monday against the San Francisco Giants to tie up Game 3 at 5-5 in the ninth inning.
It was the literal definition of a wall-scraper:
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) October 11, 2016
Bryant's home run also negated Conor Gillaspie's ridiculous two-run triple in the eighth that had - for a brief moment - given the Giants the lead:
Cubs manager Joe Maddon called on flame-throwing closer Aroldis Chapman in the eighth inning to record what would have been the first six-out save of his career.
Instead, Gillaspie took a 100-mph fastball and drove it all the way to the deepest part of AT&T Park - known as "triples alley" - and over a diving Albert Almora Jr.'s head for a two-run triple that gave the Giants a stunning 4-3 lead.
The Giants won the game in 13 innings on a Joe Panik walk-off double to keep their season alive.
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