Beaten By A Chump
Super disappointing. Quantrill sucks and he bent us over like a Friday night ho. We can’t lose winnable games like that one. The final wildcard spot is ours for the taking. If we don’t suck bad enough to not be able to back into it.
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
They were pretty asleep last night. But glass half full is that we needed and probably should have expected winning two of three so let’s do it baby today…
Early game at least. That’s pretty cool.
Just began “wading through” the 10 part ESPN Biogenesis series of articles (all free apparently) and the Melky Cabrera part is unfuckingbelievable . . . Starts this way:
“Baseball fans know about the Astros and Black Sox as major scandals, so it naturally figures there are calls to put asterisks next to records and championships. But you’d forgive even the most avid baseball fans for not considering whether the 2012 title-winning San Francisco Giants deserve special designation, too.”
Both links to main series and specifically, the Melky Cabrera one:
https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/36055058/biogenesis-america-tony-bosch-peds-fallout-10-years-later
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38089578/dea-documents-detail-san-francisco-giants-all-star-melky-cabrera-doping-line-actions
Giants had more BBs than Ks last night, just not much hard contact other than Sabol HR and bad ABs when they had chances with men on base. Quantrill kept them off balance with soft stuff, and Straw made some nice plays in CF.
Giants mishandled a few groundballs Manaea induced, adding extra baserunners. Usually reliable Walker gave up the hit that wound up costing them the game.
Bailey and Harrison supposed to be battery again today.
Unrelated to baseball . . . This is Rep. Boebert, getting kicked out of the Beetlejuice Musical in Denver for vaping, singing and recording the musical. Quite funny, e.g., she flips off security, etc. This is a major news story in Colorado.
https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1701915970191626251?s=20
You need to make headlines showing that you’re freely foolish, stupid, and arrogant to maintain membership in the Freedom Caucus.
Rarity Score today: 16
Try it…
welcome back. Where you been? Mourning that KC loss?
Nah
I like to give you guys a break from me.
Giants are so pedestrian…
I’ll never improve on my more or less respectable best, 61.
Today you can
I got no one active since 94
Pads shutting down Yu Darvish (age 37) for rest of season. Extended with 6 year deal @$108 mil that runs through 2028. yikes Pads now 68-78.
Musgrove is “playing catch” right now. LA smoked Wacha last night for 7 runs in 4 innings in 11-2 W at Latrine.
Nice column in TA from Baggs on Guardians Steven Kwan, local guy from Fremont and who’s parents both grew up in Bay Area as well.
Kwan is only in second year, solid OF contact hitter with 6 triples and 19 SBs vs. only 3 CS.
Guards do things Giants don’t, as they are 2nd AL for triples and 4th SBs (80% success rate). Unfortunately, only 3 hitters with double figure HRs, led by Jose Ramirez with 22. As team they are 13th AL in runs and dead last in HRs.
Josh Naylor seems like cool player, very big man with some power. Even stole a bag last night.
Kwan’s first time back at park he played around in as a kid “who never stayed in his seat for any length of time” with family in bleachers–radar gun, fan zone at base of Coke bottle slide, hitting wiffle balls with his brother in play area yada yada.
Now getting hassled in LF same way he used to hear others do it to opposing LF ers.
holey sheet
Welllllllll, this one’s over. Fucking D is killing us.
Dumbschmitt needs to just throw the ball to 1st and not try to hit 120 on the speed gun.
One out in (just checked) and the fucking game is over. Damn. Take care . . . out.
First time checking score, yeeesh. Yet another costly error that happens just about every game.
2 on and 2 out and Bailey stands there and watched 7 pitches go by without taking the bat off his shoulder.
Giants strand a pair, how often do we say that?
Not sure what Bailey was looking for but FB down the middle take wasn’t one of them geez 🙄
Kid was all over the place, with fastball and slider. Command is still an issue. Giving up way too many hits.
J. D. looks lot better at 3b than 1b. Giants making too many mistakes whole series on D.
No idea why he has such a problem with LHs–0 Ks and 3 HRs coming into today.
His FB was low voltage, though not really low velo, yet again, and his *slurve doesn’t scare anyone. Seems like his change would be a better choice. Not much confidence in it yet, perhaps.
Never thought that was going out.
Wow!
this is the right move, whether it works or not. Game is on the line right here, and Kap gets his best guy in there.
Tyler R hasn’t been as effective lately as earlier.
However, workload is right in line with last 2 years. He’s at 68 innings now, last year 75.2 and 81 year before. This season BA against is lower at .229, and he’s walked less/K’d more than 2022.
Joc doesn’t look athletic in the outfield these days.
His BMI is well north of 30.
Doval had his great stuff today.
Nicely done by Camilo. Faced 4 guys, with RISP, got them all out. Gives Giants another chance to walk off.
Will miracles never cease. Shocked they came back.
wow. Craw trying to give himself up and draws a walk.
Late Afternoon LaMonte!
Yes! Late-afternoon Wade!
Well I was not expecting that comeback. I went out to grill for the sick family and had given up on them after 7….shocked to come back in and see them tied…
Wow! A revival. Looks like JD’s bad ankle finally may be healed? He sure loves to talk after the game. Sort of refreshing to hear him expound. Lincecum with his genuine, humble sincerity is still my favorite postgame interviewee.
Wood was kind of a low-key hero today.
Big time. 4 shutout innings. Guards never scored after Harrison left.
Ty Blach got win for Rox today over Cubs, also getting 4 shutout innings of relief behind him.
Great comment on Wood. 4 shutdown innings.
I missed the beginning of the game and trying to figure Kyle Harrison and his struggles out. It indicated that he was only low 90s with his fastball at the start. Is that accurate or more deceptive than than that number? Especially against lefties I was expecting him to be really aggressive and be consistently upper 90s…
Missed the middle of the game and got to check in right when Curry walked the bases loaded.
I saw 5-2 then tied. Missed something. A win is a win!! Just enough by Lamont there.
A high fly 3-run HR to left by Davis. It looked like it had a chance to be caught but made it over the glove and the fence.
thx
2023 Giants have obvious flaws which we’ve all repeatedly chronicled. At times they are frustrating. But this team has also been very resilient all year. Don’t know what last 2+ weeks has in store but 5-1 homestand has at least revived corpse and offered ray of hope.
Boebert is the kind of nightmare person you never want to be sitting near during a theater show or concert. Absolutely no regard for the people sitting near them.
I’ve had to ask strangers to please stop talking during concert performances before. The vast majority of the time they just keep on talking. Total jerks. I’m glad Boebert got thrown out. A victory for the audience. You’d think being a Congressperson would make her a bit more conscientious.
I’m not a fan of audience members singing along unless the performer asked them to at that moment. And singing along with a musical theater performance is not what the other audience members paid to hear.
She has to understand there’s a difference between a musical theater performance and a Doobie Brothers concert. It’s just being courteous to the other audience members. She can sing along to her heart’s content at the Doobies’ concert and she would just be one of many singing along. No problem.
The vaping just makes her seem even more crazy than usual.
It got her media attention, though, so maybe she’s fine with that.
Mets up 4-0!
6-0!
Luciano’s back in the Sac LU, DH tonight.
With 5-1 homestand, and hopefully AZ loss, Giants will pull even in loss column at 71 with those others fighting for last spot. Don’t take Rox for granted either, as they just took 2 in a row from Cubs at Coors and pounded 4 HRs yesterday.
Harrisons velocity down 3 MPH in both starts. Maybe he wasn’t ready to throw 91 F**king pitches when he hadn’t throw more than 60 in 2 years????. GRR
kap’s lucky I’m not the GM….
In second one of the mailbag columns in TA, iirc Baggs said Z and Kap seem to be package deal and safe for another year. But Kap could be forced out from above Z. Attendance was mentioned as possible factor too in this regard.
Made no sense to pitch both Cobb and Harry a day short in their turns in the rotation. Like they couldn’t squeeze another bullpen game in there, ffs.
Padres playing well vs. the Dodgers tonight.
The Pads are a mystery team.