Giving Stix The Thread Today
……he’s earned it.
| Carstie Clausen | Fri, Apr 8, 6:28 PM (10 hours ago) |  | |
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Flav: Still have some kinda WordPress account and it all looked good as I typed and posted. No go. So it’s back to El Flapmeister once again.
To quote a well-known English Playwright: “All’’s well that ends well”. It was a wild, wooly and wacky afternoon at #1 Willie Mays Plaza. Almost six full I.P. by the indomitable Webb-spinner and then he walked a batter and had a fairly high pitch-count, so Kapler got the bright idea to bring in Leone. Wasn’t he keeping up with the two bad outings our spaghetti slinger had during spring training? So a tater later and Webb’s shutout turned into a 3-2 affair with the icing on the cake being an earnie charged to him over Leone (and Kapler’s fuckup).
Heroics by the offense: Three dingers. El Capitan proving that his S.T. rustiness was no more than a passing fancy, as he sliced one to deep left. Next, a first. Bartbomb. First time in The Show. Buster will be desperately missed, but just maybe not as much for his pyroclastics at the plate, but even more for his nonpareil ability to handle pitchers and to pretty much run the whole show on the field. Joey has a learning-curve ahead of him and I’m sure the coaches will be all over him. Maybe we could hope that Posey would fly in now and again for some one on one tutoring. You never know, asking might not hurt. Anyhoo, Bart is on board in game one of the season and my take is that he will not for long be batting 9th. He’s no longer a green rookie, as he made a solid statement in his first A.B. He was a bit too hyped and overanxious in his next plate appearances, but that too should pass.
Last word on homer heroics? Estrada, of course. His solid Spring Training proved to several of us that he just could be that diamond in the rough, that Zaidi snagged from the YankMees. Theiro just could be the real-deal, as he proved today with Los Gigantes being down by one in the bottom of the 9th. Tied it up at five-even, ultimately leading to that big “W”.
Doval? Major-league fuckup there. Slider after slider and little velocity differentiation. Where the hell was his fastball, I kept thinking while watching the gameday thread. With enough heat to turn heaven as toasty as hell, one would have thought he would pound one in here and there to keep them off-balance anyway. He’s gonna need a good talking-to by the coaches. Needs to trust his stuff. Confidence, it’s called. Today, he sure didn’t look like a closer. Needs to mature into the role.
Brebbia: Maybe he made the roster due to the uptick in his F.B.. McGee—solid. Rogers: Pleasant surprise. Kinda expected his S.T. woes were due to that hot, dry Arid-Zona air messing with his frisbees. Alvarez: Got the job done. Mentioned it in some recent postings (thanks to Craig listing them): The bullies are gonna have their ups and downs in this April shakedown cruise. It should be mostly sorted out by May and there are plenty of options in AAA and AA. The Pen should closely resemble last year’s outstanding relief corps, at least by the Break. Down the line, the staff will be the bulwark for the team.
Lovin Mauricio for his positive attitude and his energy but hating him for his perpetual fuckups on the base paths. Nobody but Dubon could have lost track of reality when Belt hit that fly into R.F. He committed the greatest sin by letting his enthusiasm overcome his sense of the occasion.
So with two down on that crazy-assed D.P., Miami’s pitcher, Bass, did not think it a wise idea of facing Ruf—a major power-threat—and gave him a half-intentional free-pass. Like the Scots poet, Bobby Burns, admonished: “The best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley and leave us not but grief and toil for promised joy”.
Enter THE MAN of the hour. Having not had a particularly great day at the plate to date, Austin Slater capped it with a booming double to left, enabling “speedster” Ruf the Magic Dragon, to score the winnah chugging all the way from first to post the grand finale as S.F. six to five for the breath-taking Home Opener in perfectly dramatic fashion.
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I think we all assumed after last season that Doval was the lock closet. Then Kapler makes the announcement that it would be McGee at the end of spring training. My first reaction was that it did not seem to make sense but upon further digestion and Kapler’s comments there was actually logic not the idea to make pressure of Doval and also Bart as largely still a rookie pitch caller. Then first game Kapler switches the script and I think that can mess with players unless Kapler was never intending to have McGee close and was just messing with other teams but still kept his pitchers in on the plan. I would close with McGee and have Doval focused on throwing heat in the 8th.
Seve would have been 65 today. One of my all time favorite golfers. Possibly my favorite.
I know nothing about Apple products, and I know Stix has tried everything to connect to WP, but could it be something simple was overlooked like his machine being set up to not except cookies?
of course. I’m sure it’s a simple fix.
and btw, FUCK Apple products, I’m glad we’re in lockstep on this
Re: Dubon. Look, we’ve all played at various levels of baseball/softball. As a baserunner you have a feel on basepaths and in split second you’re either gonna try and take an extra base or hold up. He doesn’t have that, at all; MLB is just over his head. The skill level of players is too good and when he screws up he’s toast.
I was watching along cbs site gametracker, where each pitch has velo and description while Doval was in there. Fastball was at 98, slider 88/86. And yet, 70% of pitches thrown were off speed. Whose idea was that?
Chisholm is listed at 165 lbs, and yet he goes opposite field and yanks Doval out the yard? should not have happened, and as Zum said now he’ll spend awhile whittling ERA down from 27.00
Happy for Bart. Shepherded Webb through 6 solid innings, blasted no doubt bomb deep in seats, scored from 1b on Belt bunt Marlins threw away. As someone else said, probably not batting 9th anymore.
Luciano went 2-4 and homered in Eugene opener they lost 4-2. Harrison 4 shutout innings 0 BBs 7Ks.
Luis Gonzalez had 4 hits in 12 inning W for Sac.
The Auerbach kid that won ST award went 2-5 with HR playing CF for Richmond in W.
Thanks for that.
Poor Dwayne Haskins dead at 24.
Hit by car…
Amazing recap by Stix.
Did anyone else have to look up pyroclastic?
I didn’t think Stallings homer was a terrible pitch.
It was pretty far in and the guy managed to yank it…
so was the one Belt hit. surprised me it went out.
Off a lefty, too.
Still don’t know why Buster and now Bart want Doval to throw so many sliders.
Looks like it’s gonna be a long year but not a bad one. Yesterday’s game seems to be classic Giants baseball of late.
MLB Network said this was Giants’ first walk-off win in a season opener since Chili Davis in ’87. No wonder, that’s probably the last time the Giants opened the season at home.
Chili game-winning single in bottom 12th after two-out singles by Leonard and Melvin.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN198704060.shtml
6 future Giants on the team. Though I don;t recall Jim Steels.
A minor alteration to triples alley and more importantly hitters (left and right) finally pulling the ball has turned ATT into a relatively friendly home run park…
1. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
2. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
3. Darin Ruf (R) DH
4. Joc Pederson (L) LF
5. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
6. Wilmer Flores (R) 3B
7. Thairo Estrada (R) 2B
8. Steven Duggar (L) CF
9. Joey Bart (R) C
SP: Carlos Rodon (L)
So did any of you guys know anything about that forearm mic/ receiver Bart was wearing and the pitcher /SS/CF can wear for potential sign stealing by the other team,and also OF field alignments? Looks pretty cool, heard about 12 teams are going to use it this year (Astros?probably made this change happen with their cheating ways) with possibly 81 signal changes? Maybe a eliminate a few numbers that left the yard yesterday?
It will probably take awhile for everyone to get used to it but it’s supposed to speed the game up some. Both MLB and the Athletic had articles on it. Sounded interesting.
Wow Flavien Prat runs down everyone aboard Just One Time for Grade 1 W at Keeneland.
Jeez, what a gift run.
Lousy AB from GD who better get it together quick…
12K’s thru 3 innings.
ZZZZZzzzzzzzz…….
Mr.Ed with his 2nd error( 3rd with Estrada yesterday) of the season on pace for 162.
Giants defense needs to get their shit together!
whoa Prat wins Blue Grass Stakes too with Zandon.
rodon still throwing 97-98 in 5th after 80+ pitches. Couple wild ones in dirt only run against him. 12 Ks.
Baggs said he K’d 10 of first 16 batters he faced.
Compared him to Cy era Lincecum.
Twitter guy responded, “He’s about to get Cain’d today.”
He heard you Loo!
Yup!
Nice shot into wide open spaces, taking advantage of pitch on outer half. Finally couple good ABs today off SP
Rising from the grave hearing a Loo chant to get your shit together GD delivers a much needed RBI to tie it up..
Mike Smith and Taiba take down Messier in Santa Anita Derby. Britney Burton trackside.
That’s not the Okert I remember.
Yeah I know right? Okert&O’shit combo (Oscih sp?) sucked when we had them!
Joc and Yaz look like the early strugglers in the season.
2 games in and both Webb&Rodon got “Cained” already…
Loud double for Mr. Ed!
I thought Flores got all of that one., oh well. Come on Giants bring him in.
Put some dirt back into GD’s grave after that horrible AB!!
Quite the strike-out fest today.
Only 27 of the 48 outs thru 8…
My god, all these Ks.
Joc’s chance to make some fans here…
As I’ve mentioned on the Flap before, I’m a big fan of the ballgame give-aways, and I would have liked one of those captain hats.
Me too.
I’m thinking Flores gets himself a Bob Brenly day.
Lulz
ojala que, as they say. he looked dazed by the barrage that came at him at 3B yesterday.
well, not today. But Wilmer’s going to play 3B for a while. He’ll have other chances.
And the one time there’s not a K.
There goes 162-0.
3-0 swinging at ball 4 not thrilled at that AB by Craw which would of been 1stand 2nd no outs..
I like swinging 3-0, but not there…
Judge turned down a 210 million dollar contract offer from the Yankees.
I can forgive Willie Mays for being kind of grumpy in his post-player years.
Yeah I think I remember besides Ruth that Willie was one of the first to get a 125,000 contract and the whole world was flabbergasted..Now your batboy gets that much..
Not a bad debut from Carlos Rodon when you can tie the HOF Dominican Dandy Juan Marichal with 12K’s in your major league 1st start with the Giants as Juan did..
Oh the Clay Dalrymple game. Light hitting C for Phils got the only hit for them that night, july 19 1960. Marichal allowed 3 baserunners all night, the 1 hit 1 walk and error by SS Ed Bressoud, in front of 13 thou at Stick.
Lets win tomorrow and take the 1st home series!
Well, ok. Kapler asks everyone to take it easy on Wilmer. So, isn’t it time to let Luke Williams start?
If couple of his teammates had hit anything all day as far as he did Giants might have stole that game.
get creative with the DH?
Supply chain problem with his oats?
Just saw Jason Vosler interviewed in the Sacramento dugout. He wasn’t wearing a uni, but he did tell the interviewer he’s disappointed not to be with the Giants right now. Don’t know if he’s injured. (The River Cats are playing the Astros’ AAA team — the Space Cowboys.)
Giants are going to need a real 3rd bagger after this year. Maybe also this year, depending on how much Long Gone actually plays. I had hoped in the off-season they’d go get one. Not sure Vosler is the answer, but I certainly understand his disappointment. Will Giants be auditioning 3rd basemen all season, or just wait til next off-season to solve the problem?
Rockies go ahead of the Dodgers on an HR by…………
……..Connor Joe.
Can the Rockies closer get the job done?
Willie, good pull on Clay Dalrymple, a name I hadn’t heard in decades. Saw him play a couple times in early ’60s. One time I was at the ballpark (Connie Mack Stadium) walking on the inside walkways, and Dalrymple walked out of a room (clubhouse?) right in front of me. I was amazed how big he looked. On TV, ball players didn’t look all that big. Except McCovey, he always looked like a Giant to me……….
6 foot/195 according to the back of the card…
Interesting, that’s about how big my Dad was. Maybe that was the first time I saw a ballplayer that close up. Maybe it was his spikes making him look taller, haha.
Dodgers lost; Rockies closer got it done. Struck out the side, which included Turner and Bellinger.
Great news with LHP going for Marlins today…so who went down, Williams?
Let him lead off.
He’ll feel important.
Throw him right in there…