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And with that win, we stave off a double digit number out of first place in the NL West. But honestly, going 3-3 against Cinn and LA is about the best we could have hoped for. Especially after losing JHL for the season.
What is a realistic goal at this point? .500? Sounds about right.
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I think that would be a high water mark. But as I have said I’m fine if we now spend the year with Ramos and Matos play every day or nearly every day and Soriano needs his starts. Anyone out there who wants Chapman and Conforto when healthy???
6 teams got shutout yesterday and half the league scored 2 runs or less. 3 teams that scored 2 won their game. Giants get good enough pitching and D they can at least be in torture games, win or lose.
Current NL WC team #3 would be…Padres at 22-24 who just got swept at home by Rockies, who shut them out 8-0 yesterday. 2 days before rox pitchers walked 11 and still won 5-4, as Machado hit into game ending DP w bases loaded. That’s w Machado Tatis Jr. Bogaerts and Arraez. New manager, same results.
Saw this on MCC site last night, from NorCalAlli: “That wall is eating our players.”
Nice win last night. Even with decent pitching .500 might be a little out of reach.
Stan Conte said in Chron since injury to Lee is not to throwing shoulder, might only be out 3 months.
Yeah, they’d need the pitching to be lights-out to get to .500.
Hey who knows? Maybe everyone comes back healthy and hitting.
Trevor Bauer is tearing it up for los Diablos Rojos in the Mexican league.
Red ass on the Red Devils sounds about right.
Casali should help C position a lot, maybe even Bailey too once he’s back. No more passed balls and offline throws to 2b on steals. Remember too Giants last run came after Wade Jr. walked and then Smith let ball go by him to allow Wade Jr. to get to second where he scored on Matos base hit.
Once he gets acclimated to rest of staff Casali can be big help to all of them. Webb Tyler Rogers and Doval are only guys left from 2021-22 before they traded him to M’s August 2022.
I think the writers and tv heads were right about Casali’s important role in Webb’s first inning escape. All night he speared and blocked pitches that Reetz or Sabol would’ve botched. He also made a smooth pro play on a dribbler in front of the plate that I wouldn’t be pleased to see either of them try. He’s much better back there than Clank Murphy. Hell, even his modest offense was better last night. Smart move to bring him back., imo.
Yeah, that was a pretty tough play that he made without a hitch.
nice birthday present your daughter bought you all. Game time 2:23 too. Lots of action packed in there.
Told ya last night he would be good . . . Quiz question w/o looking – he holds the franchise record for something he did in 2021 (tied the MLB record)
Yeah your right Blade, Casali still has game and experience this catching position truly needs and probably make good throws to second.Good pickup with Bailey out.Stuck with Sabol for now who doesn’t know how to throw a god Damm throw second are block pitches.But still better then useless Reetz.
I was half joking about Catcher Eric “Krispy Kratz” who’s 40 now?But with the “Giants Dumb Way” might of gotten a call lol 😂
Webb threw more fastballs and fewer changeups, and he got most of the changes down below K zone where they need to be. Came inside a bit more often too.
Just me or were Dogs pitchers jamming Giants hitters inside too? Lot of popups. Schmitt, idk, 3-22. Couple ABs all he saw were sliders and he’s not picking them up–letting the strikes go and swinging at the ones outside zone. Hope Luciano gets some ABs this weekend and maybe Schmitt gets a game at 3b to give Chapman a rest.
Yeah Schmitt was Damm lucky getting that game winning hit against Reds pitcher who made him look silly on sliders getting him 0-2 then for some dumb reason he threw him a meat fastball that he drilled in the gap.3-22 yikes he looks overmatched again, due like his defense but needs better contact of course is team wide except Wade..
Funny thing, my wife was like “I ain’t sitting here. I’m getting vertigo.” The tix were section 317 behind home in the upper deck. I picked ’em so my daughter wouldn’t spend $600 in tix.
Both my kids had bailed and were in a little standing area lower reserve on the 3rd base side.
We all slowly snuck down to some nice seat off 3rd. Just like the grand old days at the Stick.
Got to see the Camilo light show to boot.
Krispy Kratz is way up there in the flapper annals of nicknames.
Sorry, I guess I’m gettin’ old, but that light show to bring in the closer is lame.
I guess lots of other teams are doing this now? What is this, Vegas show or a baseball game?
Plus, how many people were on the field? Somebody’s going to get hurt with all that going on…
i like the light show (at least, I like it on TV). It’s just mixing it up for a minute, baseball needs more of this stuff IMO
With all the current injuries and what will probably be season-long comings and goings of players, it’s kind of hard to tell what might be a realistic goal for the team’s W-L record. Getting to .500 is certainly a worthwhile goal, and it might even be good enough to sneak into a WC spot. Seems like a lot of other teams are sucking, so the key number for the G’s might not be W-L but rather games within shot of the WC. With all the gnashing of teeth about this team, they’re amazingly only 1.5 games out of the WC right now…
Notice more teams talking about 6 man rotation–more rest for SPs maybe mean they can go longer each start and remain healthy. I would like to see MLB cut down amount of pitchers on staff by at least 1, maybe 2. This would provide extra jobs for position players and would allow for more specialization as in pure defensive players, pinch runners and PHs.
Kinda goofy but what the hell. Allison was amazed when I predicted the lights going out.
If I was Camilo I’d feel a little foolish but he got through the inning. If you fuck that up after the light show, it looks pretty stupid.
He and Tyler had me worried.
This Denver Minn series is crazy. 4 home losses in a row followed by 2 huge home blowouts. Minn is up 41.
3-3.
Up 50.
De La Cruz of Reds has 4 SBs, in 5th inning. Just walked and stole 2nd and 3rd off Glasnow. Reds up 3-0 at Latrine.
And just scored on wild pitch 4-0 Cincy. That’s 30 steals on season.
The Reds have played a good solid clean game so far. If the Giants had played a little cleaner game on Monday night, they could have won that series from the Dodgers.
In the WNBA tonight, Clark’s Indy team was selling so many tickets, the game was moved to a bigger arena. And then….the team lost by 30+ points tonight. Well, there’s a reason why the team had the first pick in the draft.
Lol Clark scores 9 points, the team leader had 12 and they lose 102-66 it’s no wonder nobody takes the WNBA seriously..
It’s a bullpen game for the Reds tonight, and they’ve two-hit the Dodgers through eight innings. But they’ve got to close it out in the ninth.
Reds add on three more runs. Very cool.
Dodgers lose 7-2.
Fun fact: There are currently only five teams in the National League with a winning record.
Exactly Zum. Rockies outscored Padres 19-7 in 3 game sweep at Petco. AZ is 21-23. Really hope they finish 4th in NL West and 2023 World Series appearance gets full “fluke” accorded Giants 2021.
AZ and SD are in much better shape than we are. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Scottie Scheffler in a total embarrassing situation by Louisville police officers was booked in jail at 6;30 am over a misunderstanding ( extra confusion as a fan was killed earlier by a shuttle bus)as he was driving into the course.He posted bail, went back to the course, his tee time changed, but unfazed Scottie still near the top of the leaders board in 4th place at 8 under.Video showing him in cuffs as reporter Jeff Darlington filming it hear Scottie say please help me! The cop said backup he’s going to jail.. Wow what is this an episode of “Heat of the Night” filmed in Kentucky?
I’m hearing conflicting reports on this. It appears he may have been trying a “do you know who I am?” thing with a non-golfing Louisville cop to get around the traffic jam preventing him from getting to the golf course. It’s probably a mix of that and a southern cop playing the power trip role. Book it that in a couple of months he’ll pay a fine to highly reduced charge(s) and that will be the end of it. If it were Tiger, the cop probably would have started beating the hell out of him…
Scheffler is about as squeaky clean as a guy can be. But hey, we don’t really know.
But my man Morikawa is on top!
De la Cruz has more steals than 19 teams.
Why do teams like the Braves, Padres and Reds fairly regularly find and develop international position player gems like De La Cruz who are killing it it at a young age (just turned 22 in late January), yet the Giants get guys like Ramos (25 in September) and Luciano (23 in September) who have been in the system for years and all along were supposedly can’t miss prospects — and we still don’t know whether they are going to even be complimentary players?…
Acuna came up with the Braves at 20, and promply has OPS at .917 over 111 games…
Injuries slowed Luciano’s progress. He had vertebral fractures at one point, perhaps twice. Maybe have to go back to Pablo, who’d just turned 22 when he got called up in late 08. But I take your point. At best, it’s puzzling. They certainly make an effort to sign Carribean (and beyond) players. They signed 20 as soon as the int’l draft period opened this past January.
Well, I can’t explain it anymore than I can explain why they haven’t developed an all-around really good (not even a “star”) in-house OFer since Chili — a completely mind-boggling fact…
yes. And many different front offices in charge seriatim.
Yeah it was confusing situation where Scottie was trying to drive around maybe a different entrance and you’re probably right Snarkk might of played his do you know who I am card? He did try to drive away slowly as a cop was hanging on to his car door handle,then stopped and was pushed against his car and handcuffed.He’s supposed to have a court date on Tuesday..
You can bet now though the PGA will NEVER have a majors tournament in Kentucky again..
Yes if it was Tiger a total William Floyd /Rodney King beat down …
George Floyd my bad ..
“Bar None” was a damn good fullback helping the Niners win that #5 of the 5 Lombardis…
Yep. Leonard Floyd, the guy that (sorf of) ended Aaron Rodgers’ season last year is now with the 49ers. And the Jets open the season Monday night against the 49ers in SF!
Scheffler starts his post round presser with “I can’t really talk about what happened” so naturally every question was about that happened.
Paul Skenes, Pirates 21 yr old rookie sensation, has no-hit Cubs through 5, 10 SO, BB on 81 pitches. Free game-of-the-day on MLB
Skenes now through 6: 11 SO, BB, 100 pitches.
That mustache is pretty bad. He looks like the wife-beating husband from “Sleeping With The Enemy”…
Happy for this guy bass . . . This guy was promoted after one season in the minors. Not absolutely certain, but the Giants did this with Timmy after he had one year in the minors (2006 I think was his lone year in the minors). Frankly, with these pitchers so brittle and getting injured frequently, this is how it should be done with the majority of pitchers.
It seems teams constantly bring up a pitcher from the minors to do a first MLB start against the Giants, and they typically crater against him…
How are you enjoying the Seattle area (Puget Sound, right?)?
Someone somewhere posted something about how bad our developmental system is. And has been for years and years across both regimes.
How many players have we called up that can’t run bases? Can’t track fly balls? Don’t throw to the right base? Was it Gonzalez that got thrown out at 2nd on a sac fly play to take a run away from the team? Ludicrous.
Even Estrada getting thrown out at 3rd for the last out of an inning a few games ago.
These are goddamn little league things. Yet these guys come through our system and don;t know jack shit.
At this level of play everyone should have the basics down. With some 0f the bonehead mistakes we are seeing is more like their heads just isn’t in the game.
Nice quotes!
Yeah, have no idea where they came from.
cbs site called Lee surgery “season ending.” per Mike Axisa about an hour ago. sigh
Soler is back w team.
just saw a mccc tweet saying Schmitt’s been optioned and guessing that means Luciano at SS. Hope so.
ah cool . Beat writers confirm torn labrum for grandson, unfortunate.
Baggarly mentioned that he had shoulder surgery in 2018, too.
Some financial info:
“First baseman Wilmer Flores, who is slashing just .207/.289/.288 in 111 at bats so far, has a $3.5 million player option for next season. Starter Robbie Ray, who was acquired via trade but has yet to pitch this season as he recovers from Tommy John surgery, has a $25 million player option for next season. Snell has a $38.5 million player option for next season and Chapman has a $17.6 million one, plus an $18.6 million one for 2026.
That’s more than $84.5 million hanging in the balance for 2025 as these players determine whether or not they’d like to test the market again.”
Wilmer’s not much of a financial burden, is he?
Outstanding story about a great Giant, Kevin Pillar . . .
“In baseball, most instances of bad news come with a silver lining. For the Angels, the primary beneficiary of Mike Trout‘s injury has been veteran Kevin Pillar. Pillar began the season with the wretched White Sox, a team so bereft of power bats that they used Pillar as a cleanup hitter five times. Prior to this season, he had started a game in the four-spot just five times during a big league career that began in 2013.
After Pillar rejected an outright assignment by Chicago and became a free agent, he latched on with an Angels squad desperate for bodies. Since then, Pillar has not just hit like a cleanup hitter, he’s kind of hit like Trout. In fact, manager Ron Washington has also used Pillar in the cleanup slot, including on May 13 when he hit a two-run homer against St. Louis. In 10 games as an Angel, he has hit .455 with three homers and 14 RBIs. Very Trout-like.”
THAT is a fantastic story Blade!
Wow! Thank You.
Soler activated and to leadoff tonight! Man they’re pulling out all the strings now to try and get him going..0-4 in Sac for his rehab assignment last night..yippee..
Luciano is in atleast batting 9th at SS..
There’s 1 back.
Or not.
Looks like the Rocks got an extended BP tonight.
Detroit Tigers, one of worst hitting teams in AL, are up 13-0 on DBax top 6. They already have 17 hits.
Nice grab and tag by Wade there.
“Two innings in a row, Hjelle got out of a jam”. You just know Miller really loved saying that.
Should have been an easy play by Luciano though.Crawford eats that up on defense, unfortunately he’s through as a hitter now .107 isn’t going to cut it, reserve player are not..
Thai for the lead!
Estrada didn’t want to run after fouling that ball off his shin.
No adios pelota from Miller? Boom!
Thairo with another beautiful LF HR.
Adios Pelota Estrada!
Bangs one off his shin then goes yard gotta love that! 5-4 great work so far by Hjelle keeping them in it..
Some hard hit balls tonight as Yaz smokes one. Credit so far to Hjelle for holding Rox down.
A DRIBBLER !!!
30 ft of our pleasure for Matos for an RBI!!
That misjudged fly by Ramos needed the Benny Hill saxophone song.
Wade smashed that ball but in the end he Caved in by Cave and Oracle park..
5 off speed pitches to Ramos there.
Another Matos ribbie!
excuse me RBI
Matos and Ramos wear their uniform pants probably as short as MLB will allow. Seems even shorter than Pence used to wear his.
Matos has the dribbler RBI’s to an art tonight!
Luciano comes thru for his 1st and RBI! On a dying quail ..
Matos 5 ribbies!
Hey now!
5RBI night for Matos the kids are coming around! Cue up The Who “The kids are alright “
Ah that was cool Matos got changeup and made them pay.
BABIP gods have smiled on SF tonight.
More rest for Camilo.
There you go.
Attaway to cool off the hot Rocks.
Rodriguez certainly has heat like Doval just needs more consistent control.Still he stuffed them in the end and they saved Doval. End of the Rockies 7 game streak and on with are 2 lol 😂
In the midst of that awful 10-2 loss to the Dodgers, Rodriguez’s performance was a little silver lining to the cloud.
More BBs 6 than Ks 5 last night for SF hitters.
Hope Flav got chance to see Walker last night, who was really good in his inning. It did take 7 pitchers but Rodriguez finally ended Rox night.
Yeah, Rodriguez has some gas. A little wild but he got it done. The pen is slowly turning into something resembling a solid group. Teylor still annoys me, and his twin is what he is. We’ll see. Got to beat up on the hapless Rox while we can and Soler/Chapman need to hit.
Miller is the one that bugs me. Game log for May shows he’s pitched 8 innings and walked 8 guys. Only given up 3 hits but all 3 are HRs.
Overall in 21 innings he’s only given up 9 hits but he’s walked 14. Command, eh?
And it was upsetting that Rodriguez walked the first guy he faced with 5 run lead in 9th, and they had to get Doval up and throwing again. that should have been kid’s first goal, make sure that wasn’t gonna happen.
All these relievers walk guys.
Back from a trip tp St Andrews. Played the Old Course and 4 others. A must for any golfers at the Flap! Go Giants! Injuries bad. Maybe a sort of good thing. To Snarkks point, we still have no clue about these guys despite be prospects for so long. As a PT (and a good human) I never like injuries, but we need Slater to be out a LONG time so Matos can get some consistent AB’s.
Some stats to review…
1/4 of the way through the season (145 AB’s x 4 is 580 for the year) Lee numbers for the year current stats x 4
580 AB’s .262 60 runs 32 RBI’s 40 walks 52 K’s 8 HR’s 8 SB’s
The optimistic view in a VERY short sample is Matos is helping WAY more. Yes Lee is a much better fielder. Everyone is optimistic Lee would hit better as he gained more knowledge of the US game. Hopefully true, but also could go the other way some. If it does then Lee would be a huge bust considering the salary…
Agree to what you said about Lee potentially being a “huge bust” going forward (as I indicated a couple of days ago). Ideally, he would have learned the “MLB game” this season. Now, his “education” is delayed for an entire season, coupled with the fact, that it will be nearly 2 seasons since he played a full season . . . Worse, this full season was in the easier S. Korean league. Just a lot to overcome for someone from a foreign country. Anyway, shit happens. Not his fault, but it seems the Giants got snake bit here.
Sorry by “these guys” I meant Giant prospects:)
https://x.com/sfgiantsmemer/status/1791866073249444008?s=46&t=k0FDC_rVBvlG86Y-OHTiNQ
Xoot, that was hilarious.
Nice.
Haha.
Missed the game last night.
Just looked at game recap on MLB.com
Pretty squirrely game, but hey, Giants somehow got some hitting shoes. Matos looks like he did with the bat in STraining. Let him play, we’ll need to just ride out the defense miscues and hope he gets coached up. Ramos looks alternatively great on D, then clueless, but give both of them time to get used to the ballpark. I will take either of them over Slater 8 days a week…
My gut sense is that Ramos has played better D in day games–and some of it spectacular. LFer does have those high LEDs to contend with. Maybe he needs to settle in. This ain’t the RC/a’s park in Sac.
A head-scratcher for sure about Soler, but he did get on base (single, walk) in 2 of his 5 PAs. He’s leadoff again today.
Just watching the highlights and:
Soler throws to the wrong base on the base hit. Chapman steals 3rd with 2 outs. Why?
Neither made a diff in the long run but I just get tired of seeing these early early early little league axioms being ignored.
Enforce them axioms! Chapman was safe and Ramos came relatively close to nailing the runner at 3B. Granted, however, that the throwing decision was consistent with his glove gaffes out there.