Andrew Heaney first looked at the high-arching drive in disgust, then toward the Dodgers dugout in disbelief.
For the fourth time Monday night, the Dodgers left-hander had given up a home run, his recent struggles with the long ball becoming an all-out calamity in a 7-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants.
Entering Monday, the 31-year-old Heaney had largely been succeeding in spite of his troubling home run habit. He had a 2.12 ERA in 46 2/3 innings. He had 70 strikeouts and a team-best 13.5 strikeouts per nine innings. And he was starting to look confident with a fastball-slider arsenal, seemingly finally having found a pitch to pair with his deceptive four-seamer.
