Beckham will get start

It was odd enough that the Giants acquired infielder Gordon Beckham for six games, but then manager Bruce Bochy did not play him in the first two nor start him in the third.

That will change Friday night, when Beckham is expected to start in the opener of the season-ending series against the Dodgers.

Bochy acknowledged Thursday that one part of the decision to trade for Beckham was who was pitching for the Dodgers in the first two games, left-handers Rich Hill and Clayton Kershaw.

“That came into play, the left-handers we could see in the ’pen or starting,” Bochy said, although there was more to it.

The Giants lost two righthanded hitters, Eduardo Nuñez and Mac Williamson ,to injuries. Williamson is done for the year and Bochy said Nuñez remains questionable for the L.A. series.

Beckham has not faced either Dodgers lefty for a while. He is 2-for-5 with two strikeouts against Kershaw and doubled in two at-bats against Hill. Beckham does hit lefties slightly better than righties.

Kelby Tomlinson could get the second-base starts against Hill and Kershaw. Good guy: Jake Peavy had a bad year on and off the field. He lost his spot in the rotation and has been relegated to mopup relief. Meanwhile, he potentially lost millions of dollars in an alleged investment scam.

Despite that, Peavy did not lose his commitment to the community and troops. Nor did he stop cheering for teammates or answering questions.

Peavy’s cooperation with reporters earned him the 2016 Good Guy award from the Oakland-San Francisco chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Writers presented a plaque to Peavy on Thursday afternoon.

He seemed touched and said, “We want to see a good story here in the next few days and month, hopefully. We’ve got to get some trophies on the field.”

Peavy is probably playing his final days with the Giants. He is a free agent who is not likely to return.

“Jake and I go way back,” said Bochy, who managed Peavy in San Diego. “He’s a great teammate. He cares about the guys here in the dugout and he pulls for them. He’s always been that way. He cares about people, not just in baseball, and he goes out of his way to make the younger players (feel comfortable). He’s a good guy to have around.”