Miami Marlins at San Francisco Giants

SAN FRANCISCO – Casey Schmitt angrily pounded his fist into the dirt so hard, he must have bruised a knuckle or three. For the second game in a row Saturday, almost inconceivably, Schmitt was tagged out after rounding second base too far then slipping as he tried to clamber back to the bag, wasting his own leadoff double. Four innings later, Schmitt had time to round second base slowly and carefully, and the only things he pounded with his fist were a bunch of other fists in the Giants’ dugout after his two-run homer in the sixth inning broke a 1-1 tie and keyed a 6-2 victory against the Marlins. Schmitt and manager Tony Vitello both described the baserunning mistakes as a player being too aggressive, although Vitello said wryly, “It led to a strategy of ‘Hit a home run. That way they can’t back-pick you at second base.’” Drew Gilbert and Heliot Ramos must like that strategy, too, because Gilbert homered to tie a 1-0 game in the fifth inning and Ramos hit a rare opposite-field homer to right to lead off the eighth. The Giants’ three-homer game was notable beyond the win it created. It nearly matched the four they had totaled over their first 14 home games and, Vitello said, was a sign that some of his hitters are staying true to their own swings after weeks of trying too hard to produce. “Because those \[power\