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Untouchable…like in Elliot Ness?
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A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Mr.Ed saying Wilbur needs more hay to keep his muscles strong 💪
Oh my God Flores can just RAKE the ball!
Another huge Bomb!!
Oh and never change your walkup music Friends and your love for Jennifer Aniston along with Krukow both jizzing over her..
Let’s go yard, Joey!
HBP in his 1st Major league game,kinda of anti climatic..,
He’s the new Ron Hunt…
Funny Loo, I remember Ron Hunt well and he was a magnet for getting hit.I think he really enjoyed getting beaned..
A very early baseball memory for me was Phil Gagliano almost killing him on the base paths…
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2512&dat=19650518&id=P9pIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZgENAAAAIBAJ&pg=818,2025266
…and a 6 pack of Schmidt for 99 cents!
And Rangers acquire Eddie Giacomin!
There’s a lotta gold in that paper…
And Yastrzemski To Miss Trip!
Bart calls for a pitch high, and Gausman keeps putting it right down the middle. G has been fortunate so far.
Nice block there by Bart.
Hoooooooooo! Gasman looks a little flammable today.
Bart cuts his CERA in half, pretty rapid improvement.
If this team had even a decent bullpen, and had played cleaner ball, they could well be 14-12, maybe 15-11 now.
Of course, IF my aunt has balls, she’d be my uncle.
In 2020, she’s whatever she identifies as…
😂
Wilmet, who was called for by Loo for years, has turned out to be one of the great Giant pick ups of the last 5 years…..
saved Gausman couple runs with the glove there too.
Me and Steinbrenner have a thing for ex-Mets…
this guy Suarez pitched 81 innings for Angels last year. ERA was over 7.00 gave up 100 hits and 23 bombs
As Janis put it, get it while you can.
Untouchable Yaz!
Another rough night for Suarez.
Yaz man deleted again , I thought it was out.Whats with those new fences still keeping shots in..
Delivers ^^
I hear Yaz’s walk-up Led Zep music and I think good things are going to happen.
I was just talking to a guy at work today about his walk up song. Impresses me that a younger guy like him is hip to that song.
Levee Breaks is one of their really good ones.
It was Matt Duffy’s walk up song.
This is an impressive stat for the Giants, 3rd in the league with runs scored at home with over 6 runs, trailing only Rockies&Yanks who are bandbox sure compared to Oracle,quite a accomplishment..
Such a bummer that yaz and Solano already old. Imagine if those guys were in their early 20’s like all the LA guys. Enjoy them while we can
Yeah it sucks turning 30, they should take them both behind the barn and shoot them…
Keep adding on. Comfort zone for me, with this team, is an 8 run lead.
Joey’s CERA cera
Belt could easily cover that pitch and drive it to left field but he chooses to take the walk.
Why I get annoyed by him.
He hasn’t driven much of anything to LF in a couple years – all he does is hit weak fly balls in that direction. He shoulda been rung up on that 2-2 pitch, which fooled him.
A salami gives me my 8 run lead.
A salami gives me a sandwich.
Salami Sammich.
Took that 0-1 pitch when that was the pitch to rake for Bart, live and learn kid.
Wasn’t Ron Hunt rumored to wear a thin wet suit, like a 3 ml, under his uni so he could get hit by a lot of pitches over the season without becoming a giant bruise?…
I thought that was only OJ?
5 hour game?
yeah I was thinking that Red Sox vs. Yanks on ESPN
At this rate Bart will get 6 or 7 ABs
Brenamann suspended by Reds and cut by Fox for football broadcasts…
Maybe he’ll speak at the RNC.
Stand in for Bannon?
Last I saw, Bannon was still a scheduled speaker.
Maybe he’ll read his indictment…
Giants are definitely scoring runs at home. Don’t forget that 3 game home series vs the A’s they gave up 30.
Padres now have hit Grand Slam in 4 straight games. I asked godson if they’ve seen Angels yet. He said no but looking forward to it.
Wonder if Angels could use Heine…on mound tonite.
GoHH GH of this team can hit, especially at home,Wilbur again 4 RBI’s!!
Que?
Kat’s auto correct works in reverse…
Yeah, love having baseball back, but the length of these games is crazy.
Fuck the DH.
WTF???
LMAO…got my eight run lead.
But are you comfortable enough to use Gott Chi?
Not to close, Kat. No Bueno.
Oppo Craw!
Crawford really warming up his batting avg up to .264 now..
This drives Brian Kenny nuts. Managers trying to get the starter through the fifth inning for the win. It has nothing to do with winning the game.
Kenny is against W/L records for pitchers. It’s a holdover from the 1800s.
Who’s Brian Kenny?
He has an analytics show on the MLB Network.
I read his book. It has some interesting things in it.
His personality on TV can wear thin at times.
Kenny is one of the people who believes RBIs is a useless stat.
He believes clutch hitting isn’t a real thing.
TF believed that, too, and argued that point often.
Really. WoPR+ is the most important stat?
With our bullpen, I’m leaning toward leaving him in.
uhhhhhhh
I can see how clutch hitting would even out over the course of a season, but RBIs?
is that Rogers getting loose in the pen?
8 runs might not be enough.
I haven’t read or heard of anyone calling this series a rematch of the 2002 WS.
They usually love meaningless stuff like that…
Maybe the Angels feed is showing all kinds of flashback highlights…
the cutouts are too cool to fall for that shit
Yep…Rally Monkeys and all. Fuck I hated that rally monkey shit.
Loo at 7:58—5 hour game?
Isn’t that the whole idea behind the 3 hitter rule for pen guys? Hasn’t done any good, it’s useless. and it does screw up how mgr uses his guys.
fwiw, rbi is one of the stats Keith Law disses too, early in his book. Point is has less to do with individual who gets all the credit.””…it is an individual statistic that depends far too much on the performance of other players—in this case, whether the hitters ahead of the player get on base enough for him to drive them in.”
By that logic, the runners who score on someone else’s hit didn’t do a good enough job getting themselves in. So, runs are a meaningless stat, right? Runs are tracked. The hit is part of a batting average, and RBI is who drives in the runners. So, scoring runs actually wins you games, right? But the people responsible shouldn’t get the credit? How do you track that any other way, oh nevermind. Paralysis by analysis.
Getting on base and hitting for power produces runs. Your own ability to do that largely measures your effectiveness on offense. It’s that simple. Joey Bart’s double was the key hit in the last run the Giants scored, but Belt got credit for the run scored, Dickerson the RBI.
Nailed it! DJ that is. Runs scored is a stat. But Bart’s hit is more important than Belt’s? Not really If Belt grounds out, Bart doesn’t score.
Calling RBIs useless is ludicrous.
See?!?
Joey gets a knock!
Bart’s first knock!
Atta Boy Bart first hit a smoking double down the LF line.,
It was gone…
Wrong…
The pitch was nowhere near Trout. What a bunch of shit.
Dick ain’t the greatest LFer in the tool box.
What does Anderson have against Trout? Yeah the pitch wasn’t that close but it was up near his head again.Maddon going ballistic with F words..
Trout answers with a ringing triple..
Unc fwiw here’s his argument. The year Barry Bonds hit 73 HRs he had 137 rbis. So that season was most ever for HRs in history, but because Bonds had so few guys on ahead of him, doesn’t crack 120th most for rbis in a single year.
He compared Bonds and Hank Aaron.
Bonds hit 762 HRs 450 solo and had 412 runners on for others
Aaron hit 755 HRs 399 solo and had 482 runners on for others.
So Bonds hit more HRs in about 300 fewer games, but had almost 300 fewer rbis than Aaron.
Hence, ” Bonds was the better hitter but Aaron gets the rbi glory.”
I think Mays’ RBI totals suffered from lack of “table-setters” his entire career.
52/112 (?) in ’65…
No doubt Mays suffered when both weak hitting Hal Lanier&Dick Schofield in the LU..
True Loo, You can’t count on weak hitting Hal Lanier are Dick Schofield to set the table much
Nice trade….Jose Pagan for Ducky
mm makes sense Loo.
maybe tomorrow I search through box scores from 1965, see who was hitting in front of Mays at that time.
Sucks for Bonds, but just because he suffered from lesser players around him than Aaron, tough noogies. That doesn’t make the stat any less important. Just that there are variables.
You might as well adjust for ballparks, wind conditions during games, humidity levels, time zones, etc etc.
tough noogies is a sabrstat I haven’t seen before
all he’s saying is that the variables do make a difference.
If you only compared rbis Aaron had way more however he had way more opportunities because of other hitters.
Great players over many years will get a lot of RBI. They are just not a reliable way to measure the relative greatness of those players. It’s also not a way to measure the relative value of lesser players. There are other stats that accomplish that more accurately.
Christ. Throw a fucking strike Shaun.
About time you pull Anderson..
Who the fuck is this?
Three straight fucking walks with a 10-4 lead, goddamn these relievers.
man the cutouts getting restless. Looking for a shot of something stronger to put into the hot chocolate
Rumple Minze 100 proof peppermint schnapps.
Hah! Haven’t heard anyone mention Rumple Mintz in quite a while.
This game is interminable. Bart got a crappy breaking ball inside and took it. He got the same hanging pitch again, over the plate and he ripped it 109 mph down the line. Well, that’s what’s he supposed to do.
For some reason, I just got a news alert that the KC Chiefs have banned headdresses and face paint and other dubiously derivative indigenous costume gags from home games. (As if fans will attend games soon.) Makes sense. But man, I hope they never capitulate and apologize for the fans who threw baseballs at Bo Jackson’s helmet as he ran into the tunnel at half time.
Did they fire Warpaint or just change his name?
Good question. No word on the nag, far as I can see. According to the Wash. Post, “Arrowhead Stadium” is fair game. And this: “The Chiefs also said they are ‘engaged in a thorough review process of the Arrowhead Chop’ performed by fans at games.”
What time did this game start?
It’s like there in Groundhog Day in this one..
6:30. We’re creeping-up on four hours.
Blame it on the DH. ..
Sounds like the lonely ball will be the Kruk theme beaten to death this season.
Bart smoked his double. And for the oppo
His swing looks like trouble…
Bart just pulled his head trying to yank an 88 mph FB. Come on.
Almost 4 hours . . .
Hallelujah, it’s over.
Winner Winner…
Selah . . . .
Yes Kruk, “it’s a big series win”, but the Angels are flat awful. Giants almost had a 4 game sweep and they hammered the only decent SP they’ve got. nice to know someone is worse than you.
“The Chiefs also said they are ‘engaged in a thorough review process of the Arrowhead Chop’ performed by fans at games.”
It’s racist. There, I saved the Chiefs a lot of time.
well, duh. But that quick decision eliminates the protracted PR opp. And what about the nag?
It’s also just stupid – and that’s my team for 55 years…
Wow, not sure last time we hit 300 comments on here.
Well, I sure hoped Bart would go yard in his first game, but WTF, it is good that we’re getting a look at him. I know the Angel’s pitching sucks, maybe even as bad as ours, but good to take three of four from them. Time to take it to the snakes tonight.