The Starting 5 Need to Stop Sucking
The pitching line for young Kickham was ugly:
But if you look past the numbers and just use your eyes as a guide, he clearly has a lot of talent. His ball has a lot of life on it and his slider is fantastic. He walked guys, he k’d guys and he was gone before he could finish the 3rd inning. All in all, not an unexpected start for a talented pitcher who isn’t quite ready yet.
It does speak to the looming desperation that’s slowly but surely finding it’s way into the Giants reality. They thought long and hard about who to pitch in place of Voggy and the best guy they could come up with went 2.1 innings. Gaudin had to get burned up anyway.
And the 5th spot in the rotation normally wouldn’t be this big of a deal, but with a few others pitching *like* a 5th starter we’ve got a bullpen that’s getting ridden harder than most ho’s in the Castro on a busy Friday night. You simply can’t keep sending your long guy out to pitch every other game.
So the issue right now isn’t who will fill the next #5 spot. Whether it’s Loux or Kickham or Gaudin isn’t the question to answer. The other four guys are the key to this. If they can start pitching deep into games we can afford to run Kickham out there for weeks straight.
If not, this season is going to get ugly, early.
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They’re like a bad basketball team that can’t get a stop late in the game.
Jeeeze. Nice throw Jeremy. All we need is a walkoff granny.
The team is being sorely tested
Tested with their daubers down
a new kinda torture and it is no fun
Even when we come back to win this, it is/was an ugly fucking game.
yeah, gave this one away. Too many walks and defensive mistakes. Quiroz I’m sure catches Zito tmw, long night for Posey. Funny too that SF hit the only two balls out the yard tonite.
If Giants are showcasing Pill, whoever was watching saw it all: a bomb, couple flubs at 1b and a GIDP swinging at slider in the dirt in the 9th. Nice guy, just doesn’t have a spot anywhere on this team.
Everybody knows who/what Pill is. The guy has been in the minors since dirt. I don’t know what can be “showcased” at this late date…
dirt was in the minors?
cool
Ouch! Losing to the A’s…….sniff
Good comeback thwarted by bad defense and timely A’s hits. Bochy left Machi in longer than he probably wanted to, the bullpen must be gassed. Gnite Flappers…