MILWAUKEE — Maybe the word “adversity” should be retired. It has too many meanings. Athletes getting hurt is adversity. Watching cancer take the life of someone dear is adversity. How can that be?
Two revelations emerged from the clubhouse Sunday after the Giants beat Milwaukee 8-3 to complete another series victory and maintain their roll, now nine wins in their past 12 games.
Manager Bruce Bochy said third baseman Evan Longoria, the Giants’ most potent force during their surge, had to depart after four innings with plantar fasciitis in his left foot.
X-rays were negative, and Longoria will have an MRI exam in Denver on Monday morning to see how bad the injury is and whether he can play by Game 2 of a day-night doubleheader at Coors Field.
On the opposite side of the room, pitcher Tyler Beede revealed that his stepfather, who died June 29 at age 52, succumbed to a stomach cancer he treated on and off for 20 years, the entire time he was married to Beede’s mom.
Only after Beede pitched his best game in the majors three nights later in San Diego did the team announce the passing of Andrew Rivers III, and that Beede would be optioned to Triple-A temporarily to afford him the time to go home to Massachusetts, to attend the funeral and grieve with his family.
Beede did not even mention it after holding the Padres to a run in seven innings in a 10-4 victory.
After he delivered another victory at Miller Park on Sunday, lasting into the seventh and hitting the go-ahead single in a six-run seventh inning, Beede made clear the influence that his stepfather had on his life — not so much baseball-wise. Mr. Rivers was more of a musician.
When Beede won in San Diego, the family stayed up late to watch.
“I guess it meant something for them to see me do well on that particular day,” he said. “That was encouraging, just to have my family’s spirits lifted at a time when it was tough to find things to be happy about.”
The rookie did not really pitch with emotion, he said. That spilled out before and after the game.
“It was an opportunity to sort of honor my stepdad in the only way I knew how,” he said. “That was just to go out there and pitch for my family.”
On Sunday, he pitched for his team and saved the bullpen after the Brewers worked it to the bone over the first two games of the series, and ahead of Monday’s doubleheader.
He spotted Milwaukee a first-inning run and did not allow another until Christian Yelich matched Brandon Belt’s go-ahead homer in the fifth with a tying homer in the sixth.
“He clutched up in a huge way, didn’t he?” Bochy said of Beede.
Had the bullpen been fresh, Beede might have been lifted for a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning of a 2-2 game after Donovan Solano’s leadoff double. Instead, Beede delivered his second single and gave the Giants a 3-2 lead.
That launched a cavalcade of runs — six in the inning — with Stephen Vogt hitting an RBI double, Matt Albers walking Brandon Crawford to force home a run, Kevin Pillar driving in his 49th run with an infield hit and Mike Yastrzemski hustling to stay out of a potential inning-ending double play to add yet another run.
Solano, whose double off Corbin Burnes started the inning, batted again and rapped an RBI single to left-center to give the Giants an 8-2 lead.
The Giants boarded their flight to Denver banged up. Besides Longoria’s ailment, which he said he has had on and off since last season but became intolerable in this game, Alex Dickerson is still nursing a sore back. Austin Slater replaced Longoria in the lineup after starting on the bench with what Bochy described as a “pretty good fever.”
Beede was a salve. For the second straight game, he had no walks. He struck out seven, matching his career best, and gave his sub-.500 team yet another reason to hope it can rise from there.
Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: hschulman@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hankschulman
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