Good Things Happening
Well, yesterday was fun. The Giants got their first win and I received many the kudos for being a good son and surprising my mom. I have several friends who have recently lost one of their parents and that video was good for them to see.
Glaze Meadow today, 1:57.
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Parents + Golf
I’m on the fence.
Maybe the ledge…
my parents are sitting on the deck today my man. I’m golfing with Chris today (he posts here as Bird Dog occasionally).
In honor of Twin, I predict you’ll shoot an 88…
DJ: If that “88” is an 88MM, Flav could really do some damage to those evergreens if he happens to slice his shot.
Thinking about Stix comment regarding starters moving to the pen, I remember Lincecum’s PS success in 2012.
Had the Giants or any other team kept him in that role, he might’ve lasted a little longer.
There’s a real need for that now more than ever…
Loo I thought so too about value of Lincecum in pen at the time. He didn’t want to do it I don’t think, and I imagine lot of other SPs aren’t thrilled about either. We’ll have to see how Kapler’s rotation (and relievers) sorts itself out.
After day off tomorrow Giants have games for next 16 consecutive days. Back end of that is 4 in Colorado 3 at LA again and 3 at Houston. yikes
Roberts has so much depth at his disposal. Barnes doesn’t hit much but yesterday he brought Smith in to replace him and he yanks one off Gott out the yard in 9th. this guy hit 15 bombs last season though he slumped at end, only hitting .175 over last month, 2 bombs.
Still–bottom line on how many HRs Giants get out of C position this season, including Bart–I say 5 tops.
Dodgers have 2 @ Stros Tue Wed, so apparently saving Buehler for tougher match up–Giants get LHP Urias today. Saw one listing of Smyly as giants SP, but we’ll see.
Giants LU vs. LHP seems better suited than vs. RHP, Dickerson being only casualty of note.
So what is Kapler’s thinking of Shark?
Making him is secret weapon closer soon?
Yes, its LH starter/closer Urias, a genuine Mexican who somehow preferred baseball to soccer and who hails from Sinaloa and likely has fans in the cartel who will cheer for the LaBumbos as long as their hombrecito is with the Dogs. Urias showed some impressive dual-role stats last year. One does need to hand it to LA for their scouting and evaluation people. It must take a few cojones to do your scouting in Sinaloa.
BTW: Is Kaps playing head-games with Roberts or merely doing his thang? Starter for SF tonight is that celebrated pitcher: TBD.
One game I would skip if I was in LA and wanted to see a Giants/Dodger game would to see Urias start.
He brings out all the gangs/cartel/ lowlifes that would probably fuck with you in the stands/ parking lot ala Bryan Stow, total pass for me..
Yeah if Dennis Eckersely did not begrudgingly become a closer( best move ever by LaRussa, who I can’t stand) he would never be a Hall of Famer today! Besides Rivera nobody dominated like Eck did..
Loo..Nice pull on Skip Lee Pitlock!
Did see him pitch at the Stick, he SUCKED
But his baseball name was pretty cool 😎
Pretty hilarious ex Giants pitcher Derek Holland(Pirates) got ejected from the stands for barking shit at the homeplate umpire.He hasn’t even made an appearance with his new club, which has to be a first for that to happen? They showed Pirates manger Shelton social distancing arguing with the ump, thinking it was he that got tossed..
The meaningless early lineups:
2B M. Dubon R
LF M. Yastrzemski L
1B W. Flores R
DH Darin Ruf R
3B P. Sandoval S
SS B. Crawford L
CF Jaylin Davis R
RF A. Slater R
C T. Heineman S
1B Max Muncy L
RF Mookie Betts R
DH J. Turner R
LF C. Bellinger L
CF A.J. Pollock R
SS Corey Seager L
3B Chris Taylor R
2B E. Hernandez R
C Will Smith R
Glad to see Davis in there. I know just one game, but a lot of pressure on Gott yesterday and he came through after the homer. Muncy Betts Bellenger no picnic!
Dodgers top 2 hit batters hit more homers than our entire lineup last year. Just a guess but their top 4 liely outhomered our entire 40 man roster! Bahaha. laugh or cry??? We are sad
2nd day in a row orioles beat Red Sox and Tigers beat trendy pick Reds. Mariners ahead of Stros and Rockies winning too. Pirates already won today. Hey why not 2 in a row for SF too?
Yeah and Phillies can’t feel to good losing 2 out of 3 at home against the lowly Marlins…
From the looks of the box score, the Marlins appear to have a bunch of guys who can pound that pill. Like a lot of otherwise strong teams, the Philthies may not have the killer pitching to take them to the top of the heap.
Rickey Henderson, Rusty Staub, Tony Perez, Andre Dawson and Carlos Beltran all had over 2,700 career hits.
They all finished with identical lifetime batting averages of only .279
funny Loo. BA and rbis are 2 stats the analytics guys don’t like. Sunday Chron always had long list of hitters ranked high to low according to BA. Always followed Top 10 in each league.
and the Giants names in the NL list would be in bold letters, right? tiny type, but bold . . . .
“Houston Astros ace and reigning Cy Young award winner Justin Verlander is reportedly out for the remainder of the 2020 MLB season with an elbow injury, according to the Houston Chronicle‘s Chandler Rome.”
How those mighty oaks are falling. Yankmees may hafta face somebody else in October. Doubtful whether it would be one and out vs Minnesota.
Poor guy – stuck at home with this…
She doesn’t look to be the type who is intellectually stimulating. But in Trumpistan who gives a fuck about intellect?
you sexist muthafukkers. that woman’s an accomplished artiste. have you ever seen her dance? she pushes boundaries we never envisioned.
I think of a different kind of stimulation but that’ just me.
You, Unca? Never wouldda believed it.
I don’t like her eyebrows.
Next…
Twins and White Sox took turns tromping each other. Minnesota racked up a mess of runs on Friday and Chicago yesterday. Today Nelson Cruz led the Twinks with SEVEN RBI’s and has 10 on his three game season, one more than the Giants hitters over the same number of games–ALL the Giants hitters. Outfielder Nick Cave contributed an early salami to highlight his five Ribbies.
Though throwing a bunch of pitches, Kenta Maeda held the Sox to two runs. Their nasty bullies were nearly untouchable. Should Minnesota keep up their pace I’d take their loaded lineup vs the LaBumbos any day of the week. With yesterday’s game as an exception, it looks as if the TC team is on Cruz control.
Verlander denying report.
Says it’s only a strain and he should be back…
Current listing on the MLB official site has one Pence, Hunter as DH and batting CLEANUP. Can anybody fill me in on this guy? Seems he was in his native state of Texas last season. Again, from that site Drew Smyly gets the nod starting against Uriah Heep of the Sinaloa Sunshine Squad. So tell me this, is Kapler screwing with Roberts’ head again or is this for real. Oh yes, there’s veteran presence in the infield–Brandon Crawford. No Dickerson vs the LHP.
I’m hoping the Penceless lineup is the corrrect one.
can we substitute correct with “everyday”?
this is what I’m seeing.
LF Mike Yastrzemski (L)
2B Wilmer Flores (R)
1B Darin Ruf (R)
DH Hunter Pence (R)
3B Donovan Solano (R)
C Tyler Heineman (S)
RF Jaylin Davis (R)
SS Brandon Crawford (L)
CF Mauricio Dubon (R)
RHP Slymy
Astros lost to the M’s today. Last year: 18-1 vs. M’s with ungodly run differential. Shorter season wins by the bottom feeders become more impactful.
clean up hitter is 0-7. Dubon 0-10. Solano and Craw combined 2-13. giants so far batting .198 as a team.
Jesus Christ!!’ A guy who has no hits, a guy who can’t even reach the outfield, a guy who’s swing makes Aaron Rowand almost tolerable, a guy who’s only successful accomplishment is getting hit by a pitch, and yet here he is batting FREAKIN CLEANUP!! Reserved for your best hitter on your team not your worse!!
My head’s going to blow if I keep seeing him in there!
I’m pissed 😡 off and I can’t take it anymore!!!
Some movie moment I just forgot the movie!!
Network
There’s no need to fret;
When your team has Wilmet…
the word in Spanish *errores*
just perfectly rhymes with Flores
You win, Xoot…
News flash from Chavez Ravine parking lot:
3 cardboard Mexican gang members have been taken into custody for beating up a computer generated Giant fan. Details at 11:00…
OK, I’ll take a shot:
Pence homers tonight…
He hasn’t cleared the infield yet..
I have faith in the juiced ball…
Dubon’s going to have a good game. I can feel it. And if the Giants pull off a split of this series, they’re back in it. Amazing.
Betts btw is 2-16 with 0 XBHs. Off Giants pitching no less.
I’m feeling the Dodgers will have a Ruf time getting Darin out!
Ruf is my pick for a Homerun tonight!
A split would be pretty monumental looking at those first 2 games. Still don;t know wtf is up with Smargle. Maybe he’ll be the middle guy today.
Slymy doesn’t encourage me at all.
That’s pretty amazing that no team went 3-0 or 0-3.
Game is on ESPN 2 to start with.
Ruf is off to a good start for his cycle
Did that Pence bloop out clear the IF?
Well, Pence reached the grass. Baby steps . . .
Smyly gets Cain’s #18.
Or should I say Connor Joe’s #18?
No respect…
I predict that 18, 55, 28, 40, and 15 will all be eventually retired by the Giants someday.
Ok who had catcher Heineken in they’re prediction for 1st SB of the season?
my knbr radio wifi stream is timed exactly with the espn telecast — so I’ve got Jon Miller and Kruk and Flemming instead of the dodger bj squad (was that arod with the stupid wall street metaphors?) it’s entirely possible that mookie will be mvp of the ws, but do we need to hear about it now?
dream set up xoot. A fraud is so lame.
and my guy Dubon has a hot start to his cycle, too. if that was a hit.
yeah it is. Flaco has himself a batting average.
Yes!
Flaco? I can go with that. Puts me in mind of Flaco Jimenez.
The ump missed two strikes on Turner, and it keeps the inning going.
Flemming’s KNBR pitch by pitch analysis, with background info, of the Turner AB was brilliant. Krukow essentially shouted agreement in the background about the ump’s mistakes. Turner crowds the plate and spins away from pitches on the inside corner he can’t turn on, trying to draw a ball call. The ump fell for it tonight.
It’s weird. Miller, Flemm and Krukow are watching the same tv feed we’re watching and commenting on that, not on what they might see on the field and then on monitors. So it’s not at all like a normal broadcast. It’s actually a lot more interesting, especially with all three of them adding info.
If Seager went down for the season and LA offered to take Crawford for basically nothing but paying his salary, would you have a problem with it?
I’d help him pack his hair gel.
I wouldn’t like it.
should have happened in off season imo. He doesn’t like hitting at Oracle and his D is declining.
I might have missed a Flap discussion about this, but are people really paying $99 to upload a pic of themselves onto a seat to be part of the virtual crowd? …….
I thought the money is going to charity, but I could be wrong on that.
Ah, for charity, ok…
I thought it was $299
Smyly limited the damage.
That’s at Oracle P/A
The rich movie stars and celebrities are payin $299 in LA!!
No wonder they can go out and sign any star they want, that’s 2 bills more then the Giants those freakin greedy LA management…
how much extra do you pay to get the golden light bulb head treatment in LA? who is that guy?
That’s actually Mary Hart’s husband a bigtime producer..
Pro effort from Smyly.
Hernandez is taking 10 foot walks out of the batter’s box. What happened to cracking down on that?
Practicing physical distancing?
🙂
Game on the iPhone. FInally. Fucking ESPN is fucking awful.
Got to tip my proverbial hat to Slymy. He got jobbed in the 4th but held it together.
I get the feeling Heinemen’s receiving skills don’t help.
but he’s the most polished receiver on the roster right now — all the others are doing some yoga asana back there
Shaun Anderson had a helluva slider going that inning.
Alright time to get some runs off of Ur Anus!
Wilmet with another knock
and then…Kapler’s experiment with Pence has to end.
You can’t be any kind of emotional leader/mentor if you can’t hit anymore.
More outs than ABs for Pence.
Pence with another rally-killing AB.
Try to figure out Pence’s season last year. It can’t be figured out.
a person from Nigeria, or Norway, or Nepal, who knew nothing about baseball, would watch tonight’s game and enjoy it all and learn a lot, but then balk at a Pence at bat. Why is he playing? the person would ask. That gangly hyperactive guy with the skinny legs? Why is he playing? Is there some rule that forces you to field a bad player?
Pity player. And those shorts have to go.
Because we used to love him, but it’s all over now…
That’s how you pitch to Muncy…
You liked that brushback!
Long overdue, Zum…
Muncy does a lot of dramatic gestures and facial expressions during his ABs. I could see that irritating pitchers.
Definitely pisses off Bumgarner, but then again what player doesn’t piss him off?
Pinch hit for Crawford.
98 99 is just fine for Pablo. Why is Crawford still in there?
2 on 0 outs twice in a row and we can’t even move anyone.
The lack of power in the lineup. It’s hard to string a lot of singles together.
Hey!!! Dubon!!!
Flaco Dubon!
2 hits and a rbi, nice night. I like him in CF too.
he’s looked fine out there so far, though he should’ve taken charge on that fly ball to the gap that he and Yaz converged on. Maybe should’ve told Yaz to take it.
An XBH would be nice.
Dubie!
Close.
xoot – thanks for the heads-up on KNBR. LOVE listening to Miller and crew over the ESPN clowns.
Boom! Dubon gets us the lead.
Oh master Dubie wah great job
They need to leave Crawford and Pence in LA…nice piece of hitting by Dubon. Need to get his confidence up at the plate…
I forgot that Crawford has one more year at $15M – no buyout and full no-trade.
Makes my 8:19 question out of the question…
I don’t see how he or Pence can add jackshit to the team this season.
Like a bad rash these guys won’t go away,Crawford,Belt,Longo,Posey,Cueto,Shark
easy Loo. they could have told him straight up–hey we want to go in different direction, where can we look to send you? My guess Crawford would take chance to play for contender rather than sit bench and be pinch hit for and taken out vs. LHP.
Ruf with the David Ruffin dance move.
Rufgate!
Game on pace for almost 4 hours.
WHY???
DH…
KNBR feed actually leads ESPN by a second or so. Nice K.
Giants are showing some warning-track power.