Lossless Against Seattle
There we go, that felt good. Feasting on Seattle. Why can’t all our opponents be Seattle? I’m interested in your take on this quote:
I’m not saying Kap and his band of “approachateers” haven’t given these guys something new to think about at the plate. But for Crawford to discount the *closed* stadium seems a little off to me. Hey, he’s the one on the field, he would know. But it’s probably a lot better for your ego to say something like this, especially when you are in the twilight of your career, than admitting the park is playing much easier for hitters this year. Intrinsic vs extrinsic debate. I’ll go so far as to say it’s a little bit of both.
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The Giants were ripping the ball all over the yard last night. That was nice to see. The G’s usually have trouble with the Mariners, but not this year. They can’t beat the damn Padres, but the M’s are fodder.
Finish ’em off today!
Yep.This year’s Giants are like 5-17 or something like that against teams with a .500 or better record.
I’ve been out in those archways a couple times, and during the day at least I didn’t feel a windstorm blowing through those. Not like anything that would greatly affect batted balls anyway.
Approach or not, the change in how the park is playing is remarkable. Same cast of characters, basically, but the ball is flying out of the yard.
Exactly. Getting the ball up in the air now, it’s going out. Before, it died. That’s not a different hitting approach.
Yes. Especially for night games. Sure moving fences in helps a little but still, putting a ball into new bullpen like Crawford did last night is good whack. Didn’t see too many of those last season, from him or few others.
I enjoy college football a lot, but Big 10 caving seems like puro money grab. I saw where there was some threshold where if 5% of players testing positive (say 4-5 out of whole team) is supposed to shut program down for a week. Well as NYT story reported, recent tests done at Penn St showed 50 positive tests among 860 for entire athletic dept. Doesn’t include coaches or support staff. Just don’t see how this is safe.
Plus no way to test for more than couple players over potential heart issues, as the equipment is not readily available. Nearest one to Penn St is 2 hours away.
Reflecting on the M’s 17 Ks: Giants had more hits (15) than the number of times Mariners put the ball in play (14).
Agree (disagree with Craw). No way I can see it being anything but a combo of the park, and the new approach by the hitters.
I think Craw did give a little credit to the fences and the archway deal. Maybe not as much as he should have, but he mentioned it. I think Flav’s take is a fair one.
Flemm was saying the other night that research shows the ball is not as live as last year, but that is hard for me to buy. The Pads RH hitters are launching balls into the upper deck at Petco at a rate I’ve never seen before. They’ve got some studs, I know, but I still think the ball is juiced.
The Giants aren’t just hitting homers at home, a lot of them are of the booming variety, real shots.
A little shake-up with today’s line-up. Good to see Slater get another start.
1. Austin Slater (R) DH
2. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
3. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
4. Wilmer Flores (R) 1B
5. Darin Ruf (R) LF
6. Evan Longoria (R) 3B
7. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
8. Joey Bart (R) C
9. Mauricio Dubon (R) CF
P Tyler Anderson (L)
Go Giants!
Cincy has moved into 2nd place in the Central.
Cards now .5 behind us and Philly for the two wild cards. Brew 1.5 back. Rox 2 back and Mets 2.5 back.
Let’s Rumble!
For Belt, don’t discount all of the love he’s gotten from management. I’ll bet Kap even encourages him to have a good cry now and then.
Like that series where they covered the Giants years ago, and Bochy calls Belt into his office to let him know he made the club. Belt starts crying, and Boch says “there’s a beer in the fridge…grab yourself a beer if ya need to.”
Kap: “I know, I know, those big boy pants can be oppressively tight at times, Brandon.”
That’s funny Chi, I can see Boch now going with his famous drawl and telling the Rook (Belt) grab a beer 🍺 if ya need one, just don’t forget me, are your on the next bus out kid..
It was pretty hilarious, Kat. Belt crying like a baby and Boch consoling him with a cold beer. You just can not make that shit up…
Here it is chi.
I guess I shoulda gone with the tiny url on dat one.
Fixed it.
Donovan Solano is batting .351 behind only Freddy Freeman (at .352) for the NL batting average lead. That is…….ASTOUNDING
Where were the Approachateers this past Sunday?
Donnie Barrels is incredible Just barreling up baseballs. I thought Scutaro was good,but Barrels is on a new level of perfection…
Sorry. Have to post this. This is fairly awesome.
Very cool. Love the Cake song. Sacramento-based band. I used to see them frequently in local clubs before they made a name for themselves.
Real good Chuck thanks for finding that one!
Diana Riggs was super hot and sexy, way ahead of American actresses for her time who could never pull off her mystique and athleticism.I just dropped my jaw as a kid when I would see her in her black leather and other outfits that leaves the mind to imagine more of her..
I love a girl who can handle a weapon, and help me keep my gun clean…
DR al fresco at .48-.50 into the vid.
Damn. Just incredibly real, fresh and delicious…
Maybe a couple of dem cutouts are stealing signs.
Talks of Reyes Moronta maybe coming back for the stretch run.He’s throwing an easy 95 again, being monitored closely, no setbacks, it would be a nice boost and great story if could comeback this year!
I always use to crack up when Lon Simmons would ask Juan Marichal how do u feel today?
His stock answer every time was “I feel real good Lon”..In his broken English days and other DR players it was a scripted speech..
Yes…would love to see Moronta make it back. He pitched one inning in Sac last night (simulated game).
Smardj set to throw five innings in Sac today…
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2020/9/17/21440963/san-francisco-giants-reyes-moronta-injury-update
Hispanic jockeys have a tendency to pronounce “horse” as “whores”
Makes for some interesting interviews…
My memory (which could be wrong) is that The Avengers was on PBS, as one of the first fictional shows for adults on PBS. PBS had been just about all educational shows before that. With the popularity of The Avengers, bringing British shows to the U.S. became a niche for PBS. Monty Python became a big success for PBS, and now all types of British shows are on PBS, of course.
The Avengers incorporated the spirit of the 1960s in a way that U.S. shows weren’t. The U.S. shows tended just to occasionally mock the ’60s. Hippies were treated as comic relief in shows. “The Monkees” at least had counter-culture spirit to it. In the opening theme song, it has the line “We’re the young generation, and we’ve got something to say.”
The show “That Girl” had some of that spirit, although her boyfriend was a total dud. Just like the Darrens in “Bewitched.” Total kill-joy duds.
first time I saw a peace symbol was on a sign at a Ban the Bomb demo in England, 1962. The Avengers was a regular watch. Not on BBC iirc.
There was Laugh-In though. And the Mod Squad . . .
And England in the 60s was more about fashion, style and music. In the US it was more about anti-war sentiment, the draft, and revolution. Things mainstream TV was ignoring.
Always enjoyed Agent 99 Barbara Feldon in Get Smart with her quirky lines.
Maybe Americans attempt to match the Avengers back in the day, though it was more comedy.
She had sex appeal but nothing like Emma Peel..
More of a Barbara fan myself.
Barbara Feldon was never part of my whack rotation.
She remained at the alternate site straight through re-runs…
lulz…
I was a more Barbara Eden (I Cream on Jeanie) fan…
To the Batpole! Can’t leave out Julie Newmar as Catwoman and Yvonne Craig as Batgirl.
both Barbaras were great (in very different roles), but Diana Rigg was the best.
Ruf it up!
Pretty impressive set of BA’s in this lineup–ranging from 257 for Bart to 351 for Donnie Barrels going into the game, with everyone else between 280’s and low 300’s. So different from recent years as there really are no holes. Ruf gets a rare start and promptly homers.
Oops. What happened with Yaz?
Just dropped into the game.I have the same question on Yaz…
What happened to Anderson? M’s lighting him up
and another line drive 2 run single. the guy at bottom of the order Ervin was hitting .148 with .500 OPS…
Another Du-boner costs a run…
Fundamentals seem elusive for this kid. That overthrow cost Anderson another run.
How many OF coaches does it take to show a guy how to hit cut off man?
It’s the major fuckin’ leagues.
Why the fuck is it even necessary?
exactly Loo. Billy Martin would have had Murph packing his bags by now.
Anderson sucks. I really hope he isn’t in the Giants’ long term plans.
And a head case, too.
checked Hank and Baggs they got nothing on Yaz, said no word from Giants yet. Only thing he did was run after that foul ball that landed in second row just out of reach.
Couple music notes: in honor of Giants rook at the time vibist Cal Tjader wrote Viva Cepeda 1958 for his LP Latin concert. Cal plus pianist Vince Guraldi bassist Al McKibbon and percussionists Willie Bobo and Mongo Santamaria. One of top latin jazz LPs ever recorded, live at the old Blackhawk SF.
Mr. Bobo wrote the tune Santana recorded few times Fried Neckbones and some Home Fries
“What the fuck is that? Come on!” that is what I heard. He had a point. I guess special rules apply when the crowd noise doesnt interfere with the uh play. Fuck that ump mosquito
Tight right calf for Yaz.
yeah. Is that a euphemism for possible Achilles tendon tear?
It looked like he was bothered by hitting that wall a bit hard, but if it is his calf, maybe he got it from sprinting to that spot. I hope xoot is wrong about a possible Achilles. He stayed out there for the rest of the inning, so I’m guessing that’s not it. An Achilles pretty much shuts a guy down.
i didn’t see anything in the play that implicated his leg. I’m reacting to the vague and vacuous initial report. But Achilles issues aren’t always dramatic. So wtf is going on? I’d like to know.
Maybe Yaz just wanted the rest of the day off like Anderson..
The Giants almost always seem half-dead for these weekday afternoon games.
Even in the good years when Bochy would go to the “white-flag” lineup…
You know u can mouth off more at an ump if they’re is fans in the stands to mute things.Now u can hear everything and Anderson was a dumbshit getting tossed, and now making the BP taxed out for the rest of the game.
Luis Baseball! First hit ever! #theroadto3000
Time for Smoak to earn his Giants stripes!!
Smoakin’ pole. That Kap move didn’t quite work out.
Kapler’s bright idea to PH for Bart: Cue Cheech and Chong: “Up in Smoak”. At least with that pair of runs we are in the ballgame. Peralta is coming around nicely. He may well stick in ’21.
Yeah, Smoak hasn’t contributed anything yet.
The internets say that The Avengers ran from ’61-’69, and ran in the U.S. on ABC.
But I wasn’t watching the show as an 8 year old. How did I see it? That’s why I was thinking PBS, which must be wrong. It must have re-ran in syndication in the U.S. in some way later, though. But it’s a mystery to me.
61 in England. So I saw it at age eleven in 62. Bertrand fucking Russell was one of the most interviewed spokespeople for the left wing rabble rousers raising the new peace symbol. European radicals are always ahead of usa radicals, it seems.
Too bad we won’t see a Graveman-Duggar matchup.
BOOM! Take that bitches!
Wilmet! Wilmet! Wilmet!
Triple Wilmet!
Wilmet breaking out of slump big time. flashed leather too on that unassisted DP earlier.
I love to watch this guy hit. Much as I don’t care for it. DH to NL would benefit him Solano and Giants quite a bit.
Wilmer splits the gap for a triple!
I can’t get enough of Friends music, neither can Wilmer, who still needs to meet Jennifer Aniston..
is that what her people used in the old days to respond to an overheated fan message? Not bad.
Meet the Wilmer, is what pushes Jen’s button.
Big bonus run by Dickster!
And he gets picked off. Doh!!!!
WTF is the point of going half way on that?
Yaz left with a tight right calf.
That’s better than a blown Achilles. They’re going to need that guy these last few games. Hopefully it’s not too bad.
Watson has really lost some juice off his fastball these past couple of years. Seems like he was consistently 93-94 just two seasons ago.
1,700 games into his big league career and Longoria never heard of drawing a throw?
Rogers and Coonrod to close? ohboy
Watching the current Giants’ catchers really hammers home how much we miss Posey and how good he is defensively. I’ve never seen a cadre of catchers have so damn much trouble getting on the same page with their pitchers. They’re constantly visiting the mount and the pitchers are constantly stepping off.
So far, Bart’s defense does not impress me, at all, and we were led to believe it was a strength of his. Maybe it’s first season jitters, but I’m not so sure. Huge dropoff when Posey isn’t back there.
Nothing about Bart looks all that great so far.
I know it’s early…
Yeah.
pretty easy POTD call today.
Rogers is a ticking time bomb to me. I’ve no confidence in him at all.
Post-Astros cheating scandal, the signs between catcher and pitcher when a runner is on second have gotten more complicated than they used to be. This is a learning curve for everyone.
Belt is still on it…
And there used to be a zillion visits to the mound between catchers and pitchers. The new rule has changed all that.
Hasn’t shortened games in any meaningful way.
Yeah, Chuck, Coonrod looks like he might kill someone before he’s done. It’s one thing to be effectively wild, but I don’t think he knows where anything is going. Not exactly prime closer material at this point.
A steal!
As long a Bart can hit for power, he can visit the mound as much as he wants. He’s got a good enough arm and stops the ball like he should. He’s still got time to learn.
Um he’s still waiting for bomb #1…OPS is under .700. Since first week, haven’t seen much power to speak of.
make that OPS .650. 70 ABs 0 HRs 3 2b 1 3b.
Thank God. Selman.
Uh. Where’s Coonrod?
Seeing a head shrink..
CAT scan comes up negative.
Wildness of pen guys when they come in, yikes.
No shit. Every one of these guys is nibble, nibble, nibble, but Selman got out of it. Good comeback win, nonetheless.
How SWEEP it IS! 🧹🧹🧹
They made it interesting.
Fair winds and following seas, Mariners. You will be missed.
Sudden Sam Selman gets the job done!
Above .500 again!
Way to go kid, nice save..
Well Kat, I guess we have “Sudden Sam” Selman & “Son of Sam” Coonrod…
Can we say Selman was wildly effective–keeping the whole Flap on tenterhooks(whatever they are) and making a couple dozen pitches to get the job done. Even down 4-1 I had confidence this bunch of hitters would rally again…and again. But the mental mistakes and the stranded runners. Yet a win is a win and the Giants are prepped for some tougher competition. Let’s hope they can play a clean, errorless and boobooless game of baseball. More than one, actually. Seems Moronta is the projection for closer. But could he handle that job coming off the IL? Maybe Kapler will ease him in a bit in a lower stress situation.
If Moronta is right, he would seem the obvious choice out of the guys they have now, but he’s been erratic in the past too. He just has more experience, which is a good thing for a closer. I’d welcome him in that role.
Agree, LJ. He threw an inning in a simulated game in Sac yesterday, no issues. Hope to see him soon is his stuff is right.
Another comeback win. This team is fun because last year 4-1 down after 2 and the game was OVER. I haven’t looked or done any research but i would swear we have come back from 3 runs down more in 50 games than the last 2 years combined!
Love the Emma Peel / Avengers montage. My mom and dad loved that show. Gives me a great memory of them sitting in our living room watching. Thanks
Yeah, this potent offense has been a nice surprise. I would never have guessed headed into this season, but these dudes can hit. The Mariners will be glad to see them go, because the number of hard hit balls against them has been off the charts. Shots sprayed all over the field.
We are in 7th for now, 1/2 game up on the Phils. Is it wrong of me to hope we get 8th?? Pads scare me more than the Dodgers
Agree. We are 4-6 against the bums. 1-5 against Dago (with four left to play).
I think the Giants would play the Cubs in a 2-7 matchup.
Yep. If it all ended right now we’d play the Cubbies…
Marlins lost today. Cards lost. Philly is beating the Mets, and Rox are up on the bums.
Go Dodgers?
The Avengers was a very cool show. I’ve always loved British TV programming and movies as well. There’s been tons of very good series produced by the Brits over the years. Production values are usually off the hook and the acting and writing is always top notch. The English culture just lends that certain something that American productions sometimes lack.
TCM will go through stretches when they show multiple British movies, but I wish they’d do it more often.
The recent Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch is great. So well done. Each season is 3 hour-and-a-half episodes.
I’ve been watching Sherlock.
BC is amazingly good in this role.
Plus, each episode is essentially a 90 minute movie. Upper end production values, cinematography, great actors, and the writing is just top notch, which makes the show. TV should all be this good…