Giants acquire Cubs’ Triple-A shortstop Dixon Machado as stopgap after injuries to Crawford, Estrada.
SAN FRANCISCO — As the Cubs clubbed ball after ball at the warm body standing between second and third base in the ninth inning Saturday night, threatening to rally for an unlikely comeback, the Giants’ circumstances at shortstop escalated from inconvenient to problematic.
So, afterward, manager Gabe Kapler and the Giants’ braintrust — president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and general manager Scott Harris — huddled in his office and went over their options. They landed on Dixon Machado, a 30-year-old glove-first shortstop, and pulled off a trade with the Cubs to get him to San Francisco in time for Sunday’s game.“It was pretty impressive,” Kapler said, reflecting Sunday morning on the late-night wheeling and dealing.
“It’s tough,” Kapler said. “We lose Estrada, and he’s been such a core piece of our team. You see we’ve lost several of those. Today’s lineup is not what you would’ve expected on a day like today.” Machado knew players on both sides of the field Sunday: Sampson and a number of young Cubs whom he played with at their Triple-A affiliate in Iowa, as well as Matthew Boyd, Wilmer Flores and catching coach Craig Albarnez in the Giants’ clubhouse.
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