The Most Improbable Win of The Season?
When Justin Freaking Ruggiano hits a grand slam off your best pitcher and you are now down 4-0 to one the best pitchers in the National League and your team can’t hit and the crowd is as deflated as a beach ball caught on barbed wire……
And then THAT happens? I couldn’t believe what I was watching.
The win didn’t do much to move the needle on my feelings about this team. There has just been too much bullshit to be excited right now. But I did enjoy a nice exhale as the sea gulls took over and we got to take a W instead of what looked like a certain L.
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Agent Zero and Nunie getting it done!
That WAS some bad ass D last half inning. Pence’s catch was unreal, and Nunie flashing some fine leather.
Graybeard!
The ground attack is working.
And a two-out rally to boot!
Hit’em where they ain’t!
I’m sorry but these are fucking killing me . . . this is some seriously funny shit. And he’s at the Stick to boot.
Strickland is scaring me right now.
Bad decision by Belt…
Wrong play there Belt.
I think Nunez is the fastest dude on the Giants since Velez…
No situational awareness by Belt there. I don’t get it.
He would have gotten him with a better throw but still you take the easy out to avoid a bigger mess.
Oy vey
Can’t believe Keith Hernandez thinks it was the right play.
It was wrong for every reason imaginable…
Giants are lucky the ball didn’t squirt into the OF and have runners at …
Nevermind.
Nice play THAT time.
Holy shit! These guys are fucking unconscious in the field.
Nice play! Belt had the good angle there.
If Lopez can live in the bottom 2″ of the strike zone he’ll be fine.
Smoker? I barely know her.
I’m here all week. . .
Yeah, questionable decisions by Belt, but it is funny listening to Keith Hernandez and hear how excited he is to finally find another lefty 1B who is as aggressive as he was throwing the ball all over the diamond trying to get the lead runner.
Zum: didn’t even think about how you Bay Area guys don’t have the option to avoid Kook and Kwipe. Seems like most of you dig their schtick, but that sucks that you don’t have the option to go to the visitors broadcast if the housewife humor ever gets tiresome.
Willie: good call on Loney being a bit of a modern day Wes Parker!
Terrible 0-2 pitch…
WTF? That was way outside.
Jesus. The pitcher should be shot for getting anywhere near the strike zone.
Another good call by Kelly.
Did someone read him the riot act?
Actual growth from Kelly? Are we actually seeing that? Dare to believe?
Well come on…you read the McCovey Chron article someone posted here the other day…per that article Kelly is a genius. Not really, I believe it said he is above average…
Just keep adding on, baby! Ground attack…
Smart play, Pence.
Unreal. Bochy stealing, Kelly making solid decisions, great leather, timely hits. . .
Is the all star break finally over???
It was the Garcia/Grateful Dead game that has them turning the corner. 😉
FINALLY – the Giants not only playing well, but getting the breaks going their way!
Holy shmoly. These guys are the defending national league champs?
They are missing a lot of pieces…1st, 3rd, and just got Cespedes back today. And their starter was a scratch. But, you still have to play the games…fucking sweep of these guys would be just what the doctor ordered!
Man, we were due for some breaks.
Mets may have quit on Collins…
You really think so, Loo? I don’t watch the Mets enough to have a good read on that…
He humiliated them at a post game PC a few days ago…
Ain’t NOBODY got time for that shit!
With the big lead, they should buzz someone for that pitch at Belt’s head by dick Smoker…
I’m dyin’ Get a twitter account and go to this site;
Fuck yeah – and a HR to boot!
Gillaspie dizzies one out of here
Grinch-hitter extraordinaire!
Our undying faith in Span has proven correct…
He ain’t hitting no cans of spam tonight…
Span with 4 hits.
The Geritol delivery came in on Amazon Prime…
Pagan just might push Crawford for the Willie Mac Award…
I agree. I could see that…
Whatdyathink, Kevin?
Hey, zumiee, have you secretly been at these last two Mets games?…
🙂
Span just might get a positive comment from someone on here besides me, Blade,or Willie. Highly unlikely, but possible. After all, he still needs to raise his average another 30-40 points to meet expectations.
The journey begins with but a step . . .
I hadn’t read comments in a while, so I missed that he got some love. Not really love, but at least a couple of snarky mentions that he hasn’t sucked ass for a couple of games. Anyway, that’s progress. I guess.
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Overall, Span is definitely looking better. Not only does he need to up his BA, but his OBP, too.
Hey, I’ll give him some love. He’s looked more energetic lately, and had some good, productive games offensively. About damn time…
Get Kontos the fuck outta there, NOW!
Ballgame! Rolling Rolling Rolling…
Ooops. Nice play by Kontos
Thank goodness for Jerry Garcia/Grateful Dead tribute nights…
Back to first ! Overall though a very well played game.
Pinch me.
2 straight wins, 10 runs and 8 runs.
Maybe they’re pulling out of the nosedive, and starting a good streak.
Hitting is contagious, they say…
Grandpa Graybeard gets some AmyG love…
very nice win. after the dead day, defense may be the catalyst to fire this team UP!
While we have had 2 improving defensive games with plays that fire a team up, the opponents are making defensive miscues.
Alright. Onto tomorrow and let’s lay some wood on Bartolo Colon…
OK, last one . . .
He had a 4-HR game!
The Giants played good ball all around, scrappy on offense, sharp on D. Johnny C was fine, and I love the way he pays tribute to the players behind him who get him out of jams. Meanwhile, the mets looked terrible (except for that AAA pitcher who managed to get through a lot of innings with a very low pitch count). Still, a two game win streak against a tough opponent. The future’s so bright . . . .
Whenever I see your smiling face
I have to smile myself…
Whenever I see you smile at me
No one can tell me that I’m doing wrong today…
that inning were he got 3 outs on 4 pitches was epic.
Span is playing well in August. He didn’t want to rush into anything. 🙂
this branding value hagioIatry is too much. Why trot Tony Bennett out there? I know a guy who’s 90. He sorta looks like Tony Bennett, especially when you ask him, do you know what day it is today?
I had to look up that word, Xoot and I basically agree with you. I think the intention is to let guys like Tony Bennett hear the cheers one last time. But one last time has a tendency to turn into 20 last times….and for what? A song?
Bruce doesn’t look same here as he did in Reds uni. I think he’s hitting below .200 for them with only a couple HRs.
Read a bunch of comments from irate Mets fans on Comcast NY site, not too happy with anyone from GM to mgr to farm system lack of position players yada yada.
I’m not a big fan of Jon Miller, but at least he and Flem will bring up individual stats when talking about a player. their OPS or OB, splits vs. LHP/RHP, yada yada.
You will never hear anything like this from K/K ever, unless a guy has been hot. Struggling? never.
Maybe they are too old school to have any respect for sabr numbers.