Late Inning Meltdown
I thought a surprising number of people were fretting about our bullpen going into the season. I wasn’t one of those people. Then of course the bullpen chokes the game away. I only listened to that inning on the radio but it didn’t sound like too many of those balls were hard him. I shall continue to not worry about the bullpen.
Exciting Friday evening matchup in San Diego tonight…..
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Alex Wood goes 3.1 innings and gives up 7 hits/6 earned runs for A’s against Guardians, who were one of worst hitting teams in AL last season.
Starting C for Cle was Austin Hedges. Remember him as highly touted prospect who began career with SD but hasn’t ever hit much. One total season over .700 OPS, and none in last 5 years over .600. Dunno what d metrics say about Joey Bart, but Hedges is now in his 10th year, so if he can get a ML job somewhere, still hope for career.
cbs story said announced crowd there was 13,500, half of last year opening day and that “many who bought tickets did not actually enter the stadium with fan groups organizing a boycott in the parking lot.” Sad state of affairs there.
J D Davis couldn’t find anywhere else to play? yikes
yeah i don’t get the JD Davis thing. Why did we bail on him? Why couldn’t he do better than the A’s? I like him
the rival LF and RF bleacher gangs have banded together for the SELL! boycott. Please sell to another billionaire who can screw us over again! Please!
I sat in the RF bleachers for a PS game in 2013. Ticket cost $44. The incessant drumming was as bad up close as you’d imagine and the drunks with big flags were happy to block views.
one sign I saw on the news last night was kind of cool. A Latino guy had turned the team’s official yellow gothic A upside down and made it the first letter of Vende!
Agree on JD. That nagging injury (foot?) dogged him most of last year and he was still good. Just dfa him? And Joey’s plight is odd, too. Z man looks like a piss poor salesman.
is it the woeful defense or the anemic batting average that is a major selling point for Bart?
Not sure why you think Davis or JD are much more that end of the bench guys. The league is littered with 25-30 HR / 80 RBI guys who don’t hit for average. These guys don’t hit for either.
Agree. With Chapman coming in, there was zero need to keep the constantly injured JD around, and Bart has needed to go far, far away for a long time. He is not a big league player, IMO, certainly not a catcher. Buster set the bar way too high to tolerate that kind of defensive mediocrity behind the plate, let alone the crappy bat. My guess is he won’t be around for long. Maybe they’ll try to sneak him through waivers now with all the rosters pretty much set. If he goes, he goes.
littered? lol. First half last year, JD Davis hit 11HRs, 14 2Bs, w .800 ops. But he got hurt. Still played, lame , becz his D mediocre as it could be was better than Wilmer’s. I much prefer Chapman.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10098191-ranking-the-top-25-third-basemen-of-2023-mlb-season
Joey had brief bursts of power in 2022. His arm is good. Always has been good. I don’t remember much about him last year. He’s pretty much useless on a team with two good catchers. But there he is.
btw, good call on Webb, Flavor.
Jackson walked 2 guys, gave up a single, and Walker promptly gave up a smoked double by Cronenworth.
JD Is the Freddie Electric of the current team. The more he plays the less he hits. I’ll take Chapman’s D over Davis’.
Jackson looked like crap in his first outing. Any update on his injury?
He said after the game is was a back spasm. He wasn’t sure. He said he hoped he’d be fine in a couple days.
Just me but if you are a MLB reliever and having back spasms maybe you tell the manager you can’t go?? WTF??
During the game.
Like I said last night Jackson would be heading to IR and he is the Giants recalled another bum to take his spot Pitcher Kai-Weng Teng hopefully just to mop up until they activate Mason Black to pitch after Snell home opener I’m guessing they still have Winn to pitch against the Doghairs..
I’m sure they have Brebbia on speed dial.
Jackson was pretty good for stretches last year, so hopefully yesterday was an outlier and he’ll get his shit together. He has good stuff. The Giants almost always seem to start slowly. Interested to see what Harrison does tonight.
The A’s suck.
Probably the worst team in MLB. And, they’ve gobbled up several Giants from last year’s team. What does that tell you about last year’s Giants’ talent? Kappler is probably wondering what got into Farhan and his spending spree on real talent this spring…
yeah how hilarious is it that the A’s first two SPs this season are Wood and Strip.
It’s likely we take a little while to gel. Also looking forward to seeing Harrison tonight a lot is riding on him this year.
Lamont Wade starting in RF tonight? something’s going on behind the scenes, right?
guess it’s just yaz’s paternity leave and Matos’s greyhound from sac arriving late.
JD can hit. He wasn’t going to cost shit and he could have been a solid bench player and a great clubhouse guy. Maybe they thought he couldn’t pinch hit? Bart always should have been sold off a couple of years ago. I’m telling you, Z’s inability to sell off any of our blue chip guys is going to be his downfall. None of them seem to be amounting to shit……
it’s Barbie night again in SD.
Xoot,Lol yeah it’s Toontown Disney Padres with more colors then an abstract painting mural…
Chapy!
Yaha ! Chapman over CF wall.
run!
hey Chapman!
Conforto smokes another one.
trying to comment
hey now!
Chapman’s blast hit a lady on her arm, bet that will leave a bruise!
Man I love Chapman he is a clone of Matt Williams..
3-zip as Conforto stays hot, RBI by Estrada nice!
Greetings. Catching up on some of the earlier discourse here: Magnus’s winter of discontent (Shakespeare cofuses me on this: does he mean the discontent is in hibernation, atrophied, hidden? Or that it is diminished, not growing? Most likely, either or both); Bart’s presence (great spring; I’m still not sold, tho’ he’ll go elsewhere and be the return of Johnny Bench); the Ohtani mess (I don’t believe him either; I tend to think MLB will whitewash it, as it likes to do, but I dunno; the feds are also investigating).
Gentlemen question mark. That was TedSpe’s signature closing. We’re still in touch.
WordPress keeps asking me to sign in, but so far it is allowing my verbose presence. Go [insert vocative comma] Giants!
I’m sure the residents of Ukraine and Gaza are sympathetic to your massive hardship…
whoosh the high hard one right by Machado at 95. Awesome.
As for this game, from what I am gleaning here, “Now is the springtime of our swinging bats . . . ” [apologies to Richard III and The Bard]
Harrison works fast. Nice to see.
3 batters in Ramirez hits 2 run bomb off Stripling for Guardians.
He later balked in a run with 2 outs after double and an error.
that’s stripling when he’s healthy!
I see jd Davis boomed two HRs in the losing effort.
Harrison looks sharp, always a key to get out of the 1st inning unscathed which he did now settling in nicely..
Nasty heater to get Tatis there. He dotted Bailey’s mitt.
Great throw from Estrada. Giants did call up Kai Wei Teng, Taiwanese pitcher to replace Luke Jackson, on 15 day IL. Teng is already on 40 man roster.
Estrada has become very solid at second base.
Harrison thru 5 with a strikes/total pitches ratio of nearly 75%. Good…
Harrison has a penchant for serving up fat pitches to SD.
Tatis smoked that dinger — 115 mph
Harrison hangs a slider to machado then later figures why not serve Tatis one, too.
OK, he went 6, gave up two mistakes. Upside is they were solo jobs.
Obviously he’s tiring — pitches up in the 6th. Bring on the pen, good first appearance by Harrison. Keep his confidence up. Is this pen any good yet with quality oppo? Let’s see…
Gonzaga crushed by Purdue 80-68
They needed “A Few Good Men” Coach Mark Few to combat that 7’5 center Purdue has..
Dubs could use that guy …
Got one of em back.
yeah nicely done 2 out RBI from Chapman and Wilmet gets another run home.
Got em both back.
2 out RBI knocks, gotta love ’em.
Does Tyler Rogers have kompromat on Farhan ?
Wow, an atem DP off Machado. That pitch was tagged.
Do we have to white knuckle another season of this with Tyler Rogers ?
Yeah, not sure I can handle another season of Ty. Rogers.
Chapman having a night.
No cheapie by Chapy!
What a shot!
Gents, I think the Giants have themselves a 3rd baseman…
OMG 3rd deck knocking cement plaster off the bricks 🧱 for Matt Stay Hot Chapman!!
442 ft if the bricks didn’t stop who knows how far? Giants sure have the MOJO going with the bats 13 hits tonight ,12 yesterday?
Longo hit one up there a couple of years ago, but I think Chapman’s got out even quicker. What a bomb.
Chapman. Yes 2 hrs. But watch his body language in the dugout. It’s all about him. Not a team player. Just a rental. Look at the disrespect he gave to Pat the Bat after the first home run. Just ignored him
lol
Dats a win.
A good Friday — Giants win!
Nice first win!
Does the Flap have a new troll?
Hope so…
lol
Ha, it would be fun to pile on Rooster again. Honestly I don’t sweat LA at all, they figure out a way to self destruct every year when season is beyond 2 months long, no matter how much talent they have or what type of team they put together.
Only time I troll was in my fishing boat…
just a few years ago Melvin was managing Chapman Semien and Olson on the IF in Oakland. What a messed up franchise. I’ve always liked Chapman. My idea of a 3B.
If Hicks throws like he did his last time out and can go 5 today (6 would be awesome), we should be good.
Soler has never gotten a hit off of Cease, today’s the day.
Everyone might know already, the Giants/Padres are a Fox network game of the week today.
4:00 Pacific Time.
P: Jordan Hicks (R)
That’s a pretty nice lineup. Now all we need to do is hit Cease.
AJ Pierzynski on the call…
lol
Yeah Murph!
Pierzynski on the call…
Damn. 2 runs tho!!
I get like a 15 minUte delay on my posts showing up when I use my phone . Hence the repeated post.
Giants looking good,Dylan wants a Ceasefire after they took it to him this inning!
Love how the bats have started out so far this season..
Hicks having trouble adjusting to the stretch.
lotta 98 FBs. Bit wild.
there you go. Breaking ball for the K.
Perzerkoff as usual being a dickhead saying what a beautiful ballpark SD when it was 1st built while playing for the Giants the best park in the Bigs!
Hicks struggling in the stretch again. 98 99 FBs again.
a great splitter SO then 100 and a lucky low LD. Hicks is a starter/closer transformer.
Giants starters have been great so far!
Webb got his usual Cained outing but still pitched great. The double H guys Harrison &Hicks lights out! And the Defense has been phenomenal so far!
That’s two off of Brito that might have been gone at Oracle.
Lee goes deep.
great swing.
Whoo Hoo!
Gone!
Hell yes we have are leadoff hitter!
1st Bomb 💣 and it was smoked!
Congratulations Lee!!
Keep it moving.
Grand slam! Fuck ya.
Conforto slam!
Boom, again . Bats sure coming alive in SD.
so thoughtful of Fox to interrupt our game for yankee updates.
Kap would’ve pinch-hit for Conforto vs. the lefty.
he would’ve saved slater for that moment.
Maybe not with the reverse splits and Lee’s bomb as a precedent. Saving Slater would likely have meant that Matos got an AB.