Beating Philadelphia
I thought the Phillies would be better this year. Nice win over what should be a good team.
Maybe I’m not watching enough games this season but I still have no idea which Rogers is coming in when one of them gets called in.
We have extended our lead over the Rockies to 1.5 games.
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Also SF only half game behind Padres, of whom lot better baseball was expected.
Little concerned with J D Davis, who has cooled off in power dept. in May after wonderful April. 1 HR in 47 ABs this month, and only hitting .231 at home so far with 2 HRs as opposed to 5 he’s hit on road. Managed to keep OB and BA up, so hopefully power returns.
So when are you going to be concerned with Mitch Hainger? I know he’s battled the oblique and then loss weight, but he’s swinging the bat terribly hitting .182?Is he going to be are latest version of a broken down Evan Longoria 2.0?
Interesting night in NL West, where Giants were only team that won. AZ blew 8-4 lead to the A’s and lost 9-8 in 12, before 3 thou.
Padres, losers of 8 of last 10, fell behind 5-0 early and lost 5-4 to Royals.
Kershaw took L in 5-1 loss to Twins at home, first time he’s lost one at Latrine in 2 years.
I take it the Rockies are the new Mendoza Line of the NL West.
Lol. Sad but true.
So Bart was credited with double and rbi (nonsense) for play where Schmitt scored as Phils lost harmless pop fly behind 1b.
Without that hit/AB, Bart is 3-31 with 1 other double (and no other XBH) since May 3. At that time slash line was .302/.375/.372. Now it’s .227/.275/.293 for .568 OPS. No one expected him to hit anywhere near .300 but yeow this is eerily close to what happened last year.
I’m sure Bart will take it, but man he reminds me of Belt where he looks like someone pissed in his cornflakes when he walks back to the dugout after his latest K.
This team is maddeningly inconsistent. But even at this early juncture they really need to deal with the pen. Brebbia seems to be the lynch pin believe it or not. Hjelle has already played himself down to the river(cats). Stripsearch and Manaea really need to go. Junis is wobbly as the long guy but is showing enough to stay. Taylor is hopefully settling down after sucking hard. Tyler is actually been pretty solid. Alexander is also doing pretty well despite a couple rough outings.
The call-ups of Waites and Shitter have been flat awful.
Doval? He’s our next Brian Wilson. He can’t seem to get through an inning without giving up something. A walk, a bomb, a bunch of needless pitches . . . but he’s got 10 saves. And for all his walks (9 in 17 innings) his whip is a solid 1.02. If he can cut out the walks, he’d be that much better.
All symptoms of a .500 squad.
This team is not quite boring, but it is hard to keep interested in it with the inconsistencies and no real stars. The Schmitt add is a nice blip upward in interest…
And for all our sucking, we are only 4 games under .500.
From the Danny Emmerman summary of last night’s game:
“Before Tuesday, the club was fourth in home runs and 13th in OPS, a disparity representing a lack of situational hitting.”
No, that’s false. The disparity represents a lack of hits and walks that would raise the team OPS. It’s not tied to the situations in which those additional hits and walks might occur.
40 years after the first Baseball Abstract, there are still professional writers so desperate to cling to the idea of clutch hitting, they’ll write complete nonsense. This one probably isn’t even 40 yet.
Aw come on. Everyone knows it’s harder to hit bombs with runners on base–pitchers bear down and focus only on the plate and they have the benefit of being in the stretch.
Benefit?
If you don’t have the situation, how are you gonna situationally hit?
Actually, the Giants have been pretty consistent in one respect: they lose when Stripling and Manaea pitch. They’re 4-12 in those games.
Guess they appeared together in some of those Ls. But who am I to let accurate numbers and facts interfere with the telling of a greater truth?
Well, there’s throwing gas on the fire and then adding napalm.
Think Public Enema #1 starting this afternoon. Kap pushed all right buttons last night but had to use 4 different guys in relief of Cobb. Day off tomorrow and Giants could get reliever L Jackson back soon.
Guess they’ll bring in Manaea for Harper’s second AB, when SF is down 4-0, bases loaded nobody out. The bar is low. One of them just needs to be not entirely useless. 4.1 innings, 3 runs.
well, like the outrun the lion joke, Stripling just has to be better than Walker.
Fuck. The defense better stay ready. Those were 3 crushed shots that Strippple gave up.
ROY Schmitty with the 2 out 2 run knock.
I can’t believe the 2 out RISP hits the Giants just produced.Kinda cool stringing some basehits together instead of always expecting a long ball.
Gotta love situational hitting today. 🙂
Hey man–how was NOLA trip?
Saw many good friends, heard a lot of great music and ate some awesome food.
Did get some pretty intense weather the first weekend, they went cashless this year so with the huge crowds, the food/beer lines were insane and I’m getting too old to bounce from stage to stage like we did in the past. Still, the positives out did the negatives.
I do love that town (even in the summer months).
But clutch walks and singles won’t do a lot for the collective ops. Meanwhile, Stripper persists. Can he finish five?
“Stripper persists” LMFAO
Sabol has to stay. Nice running grab in first, 2 hits rbi hustles into 2b after successful bunt. Might not be C of future but looks fine enough in OF.
He strained his whip.
Or whipped his strip.
Sabol’s avg now is .283 with 13RBI’s and OPS over .800 now he’s definitely staying..
Hey there’s the Stripper getting exposed again as usual.Now some BS injury which is fine to go to the DL with 60 days would be good..
Striplet revrets to form.
Nowhere Manaea.
Now Manea looks like he’s pulled his fip. He’ll try to battle through it, though, make it worse, unless they act quickly.
God to think we have the tag team Bombs of Stripdrip&Mansuck for 2 years!!!!
I see the Toxic Twins have squandered the 4 run lead in quik fashion.
Bart gets HBP and a bunt single that went 50′ in the air on the bounce.
Wilmet!
Fucking Doval is just out of his mind
Holy crap. Doval all over the place.
Love to know what goes on when Bart comes to the mound with Doval. Looked like Estrada had lot to say.
Bart’s probably tell Estrada to say No Mama’s way! Your killing you’re catcher right now..
Sweeep!
Amazing, huh? Team picked up the less than Dynamic Duo and scored enough to survive. Boring they aren’t. And the team with Trea Turner, Harper, Realmuto, Castellanos and Schwarber drops 3 straight here.
Padres trail Royals in 8th too…
Don’t know what’s going on with the Pads but they are what 1-10?
As someone who lives 45 min drive from downtown Philly, sweep even sweeter. Just last week Philly sports talk boasting bout Phil’s & 76ers. All quiet on eastern front today. Great job by bullpen to pick up Stripling & Manaea’s predictable mess. Whoever said Doval the new Brian Wilson spot on. If Kapler keeps running him out, Doval may also be the next Rod Beck with dead arm by September.
So, you’re thinking we’ll need him in September?
7 runs, 0 home runs.
Clint never gets old.
Zum, just finished awesome sports book, “The Track in the Forest” by Bob Burns written 5 years ago I think. Story of the 1968 Olympic Trials held at altitude of Echo summit on Hwy 50 (as precursor to Mexico city), with great pic on front cover of Tommie Smith on track with Ponderosa Pine Trees in background on the infield. It’s now a State Historical Landmark site.
I echo that. Love me some Clint!!
Regarding Mookie Betts, the Red Sox wanted a prospect in the trade who could be an immediate starter, and the Dodgers had that with Verdugo. He’s been a solid starter for the Red Sox. He hasn’t hit as many HRs as they would have liked, but his on-base numbers are good.
The Giants didn’t have anyone like that to offer the Red Sox.
Oops; posted this on the wrong thread.